Cropping excess captured DV footage: how?

[schmoppa]

On some of my DV captures I wasn't around to stop the capture when the source footage finished, so with DV being so HD intensive I have a lot of GB wasted on blank DV.

I tried in Premiere to edit the blank footage out then output to a movie, but I have the feeling that it is re-encoding and thus introducing more loss. Plus it takes a long time to do.

Is there a way to simply snip off that portion I don't want without going through the trouble of editing and re-encoding?

[redwudz]

I usually use Virtualdub for editing, but most any editor can do what you want. If you want to see if the cut part is gone, just look at the clip length. If you encode with TMPGEnc, just set source range.

[schmoppa]

Virtualdub (or any editer like Premiere for that matter) will do it without re-encoding?

[jg0001]

So long as you import & export in/to DV-AVI files, there is no recompression to speak of. I use Scenalyzer Live & Studio 9 to import video and then often trim off unnecesary scenes or blank spots and then save the files in their trimmed form. (Due to the huge size of the files, you should be sure to save with a filename different from the original AND you may find things move faster if the original and trimmed versions are on different harddrives.) It SHOULD take a while b/c you ARE saving another version of a huge file.

[schmoppa]

So I guess I can't just crop away part of the movie, like you can crop part of a photo in Photoshop? Seems like such a simple task, but then you have to re-output the file into a new, huge one.