Cutting junk, *fast*, from xvid AVI - ?

[mike18xx]

For some reason, various and sundry rippers who make torrents like to leave in end-credits containing ads (which blare at uber-volume); quite naturally this is very annoying when a collection of these exceeds the capacity of a data DVD by, oh, 10mb....which has the effect of making blood squirt from my eyes like a horned-lizard. I've given myself the presumably (!) easy task of finding a vid-prog to give those suckers a hedge-clipping....

VirtualDub has a good rep, so I tried that first (v1.3c, as the newer beta still appears flaky). I pulled up a lower-quality 60mb file for test purposes, figured out how to select and delete the tail end....and then ran into the proverbial brick-wall, since VirtualDub apparently will not re-save the file without "Full Processing Mode" recompiling the whole sucker from scratch (obviously taking huge amounts of time, not that I could get it to work anyway due to "Statsfile not found!" errors).

What out there does the seemingly (?) simple task of credit-whacking with wham-bam-thank-ya-ma'am alarcity? Gimme your list of favs....

[Dublo7]

Easy Video Splitter. Great, simple, little program.

[anonymez]

a recent version of virtualdub. set start & end points, set video to direct stream copy and save as avi.

since VirtualDub apparently will not re-save the file without "Full Processing Mode"

missing vfw; download & install xvid or enable xvid decoding in ffdshow vfw config

[mike18xx]

Easy Video Splitter is payware, and crashed the first time I tried to open a video. Anon's suggestion with VD worked (yay! ...why isn't that the default? Jeesh...), but I have to manually tack ".avi" onto the end of everything.

Anything that'll let me line up a lot of projects and then batch-mode them?

Addendum: Just discovered that VD won't open .wmv files (or at least the ones I have at any rate) -- what works on those?

[LT. Columbo]

I have to manually tack ".avi" onto the end of everything.

Options>Preferences>Main
check "Automatically add extension to filenames when saving"

[anonymez]

I have to manually tack ".avi" onto the end of everything.

what LT said... but i've never had to rename extensions manually or change that option

Just discovered that VD won't open .wmv files (or at least the ones I have at any rate) -- what works on those?

virtualdub-mpeg2 for -->avi. otherwise take a look at windows media stream editor (comes with windows media encoder)-- it muxes/demuxes, not sure if it appends.

Anything that'll let me line up a lot of projects and then batch-mode them?

virtualdub, job control

[drfsupercenter]

a recent version of virtualdub. set start & end points, set video to direct stream copy and save as avi.

Hey anon, does that work? I tried it a few times and it seemed to only want to cut on the keyframes, when I used direct stream copy.

[anonymez]

yes, vdub and many other similar apps only split at keyframes. new experimental 1.7.x branch does smart rendering, only re-encodes portions that need to be encoded (ie a few frames at start & end points). should allow for frame accurate splitting in the future

[LT. Columbo]

i have virtualdub, virtualdubMOD, virtualdub MPEG-2, and virtualdub 1.3c. the only one i had to make that setting was for 1.3c for some reason.

[drfsupercenter]

@anon, is there a way to modify keyframes? I hate having to re-encode to cut a few frames out.

[anonymez]

let's say you have an xvid avi and you need to cut frames 600 to 900 exactly. let's say the closest keyframes to those points inside the cut are 615 and 860.

select 600 to 614 in fast recompress mode, encode with same attributes as original avi. do the same for 861 to 900. you can direct stream copy the rest, then append.

if you didn't catch all that: encode around the cutpoints

[drfsupercenter]

Does the bitrate have to match, for the files I am cutting? Like if I used XviD 2-pass, do I have to do that again?

And when I append I use direct stream copy?

[anonymez]

Does the bitrate have to match, for the files I am cutting?

no. shouldn't really have any problems so long as fps,resolution and codec are the same.

And when I append I use direct stream copy?

yes