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editing video files
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Original Message
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Name: moonunit100
Date: July 13, 2006 at 05:17:48 Pacific
Subject: editing video filesOS: xp sp2CPU/Ram: AMD 2600+Model/Manufacturer: acer |
Comment: I have lots of short windows media video files, video clips and mpegs on my computer and I'd like to edit them. All I actually want to do is cut and delete some of the video from the start and/or end of them so that they aren't so long. Does anyone know of a program, preferably a free one, that can do this for me?
Thanks in advance.
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Response Number 2
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Name: moonunit100
Date: July 13, 2006 at 08:50:09 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Thanks for that Kurt.
I have tried with Movie Maker but I've found some of the video clips I have actually take up more memory after I've cut their length. Does anyone know why or if a different program would be better?
Thanks again.
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Response Number 5
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Name: Kurt S
Date: July 13, 2006 at 10:04:33 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Video doesn't take up RAM, do you mean the file is larger? If so, you need to set the compression ratio higher so the file size is smaller. WMV (which is the format Movie Maker will create from your video files) is a descent compression scheme and you should be able to get descent quality with a fairly small size.
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Response Number 6
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Name: moonunit100
Date: July 13, 2006 at 10:17:39 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Thanks for the quick reply. When I say the new, shorter files take up more memory, I mean they are larger. I didn't realise that movie maker was changing the file type and/or the compression of the files I'm editing, I guess that's why the edited, shorter length movie clips are often becoming larger files. I'm not too sure if I'm able to change this within movie maker as I'm just starting out with this kind of thing. If it can't be changed, I wonder if anyone knows of an alternative program that I can use to cut my clips down to size!
Thanks in advance.
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Response Number 9
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Name: ham30
Date: July 13, 2006 at 11:19:41 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Virtualdub (free) will handle AVI and 'some' MPG. But I don't think it will handle WMV. Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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Response Number 10
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Name: moonunit100
Date: July 13, 2006 at 12:58:03 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Thanks for the advice guys, but problem solved! I've used 'asfbin' on http://www.radioactivepages.com/
It seems to work a treat.
Thanks again all.
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