Tips on editing .AVI files

[arunc]

What are user recommendations for editing .AVI files? Use Procoder Express? What about authoring menus for DVD? Please give your tips on effective transfer to DVD.

[Bjs]

You can find out all you need form my forum post's , and guide's , but to make it simple .

Dvdauthorgui (dose all the basic need's for dvd authoring)
Bbmpeg (convert's avi to mpeg2 with mp2 audio)
Besweet (convert audio to ac3)
The gimp (menu design , and support's png with layer's for motion menu's)
Virtualdub (frameserve to bbmpeg , extract audio at 48khz , clipping , joining , resizing and more)
Pgcedit (for editing navigational in dvd project's)
Batchdemux (for extraction of m2v and m2a from mpeg2 file's)

If dealing with dv , grab free dv codec's and converter's in tool section (allow's vdub to edit dv)

Avisynth (motion menu stuff and more)
Visualsubsync (if your handy , create subtitle's)

Imagtool's (burn dvd's , simple)

Other tool's :

Dvdslideshowgui
Slide show movie maker
Ifoedit
Vobedit
Rejig
Quenc
subrip
Wax2 (has stability issue's if pushed , but has many advanced feature's)
Transition's for dvd menu (another handy tool)

That would cover the basic's .

Might write a list of all those I have to make this simpler next time someone ask's ...

As for guide's , check those I have posted , they relate to most of the above program's .
Then check out the rest .

Notice , I use freeware ...

If something cannot be done using freeware , then you move onto commercial product's ... atleast you are given a chance to learn before wasting money on poorly conceived product's (many are) ...

[arunc]

What is the best way to split .AVI files and save out the individual files? How can you edit the file and save an .AVI file?

[edDV]

What kind of AVI file? There are dozens.

Tools differ.

[bendixG15]

You gotta go into those guides listed on the left side to find out how to do things.
A few days searching and you will find a few answers.

To cut AVI files, try this..
https://www.videohelp.com/virtualdubedit.htm

[dragonrazor]

I have a question that is related to this topic. I downloaded some videos (labeled AVI, though one of the ones I converted was really MKV....). I converted them into XviD to make the filesize smaller. I also switched to the English Audio track on one. The problem is, on the one I switched to the English track, I noticed that in both the original Japanese and in English, the audio is not properly sychronized with the video. How do I go about fixing that in an AVI?

[Baldrick]

dragonrazor: No, it's not related. Create a new topic instead.

[dragonrazor]

actually, yes it is. If you read the topic, it is Tips on editing AVI files. the files are AVI, and unfortunately, i need to edit the audio to resynchronize it.