Hopefully an easy question about cutting and joining video with Virtualdub

[crumbworks]

Alright so I have a video in which I wanted to crop out 3 parts of, and then join those parts together, leaving the rest of the video behind. I've done this a few times before, but the same problem happens.

I cut out each piece at the same framerate etc, and name them part1.avi, part2.avi, and part3.avi

Then I go file "open", open up part 1.... then I go file "append", grab part 2, then "append", and grab part 3.... I do a direct stream copy as I don't need to re-compress the 3 parts, just join them together.

However, every time, it ends up like this:

PART1--PART2--PART3--PART3.

Why does part 3 always end up on there twice at the end??

Thanks!

[Baldrick]

Virtualdub might auto append if you have named them like that. You can try deselect "Automatically load linked segments" when you open the avi.

[crumbworks]

Yup, that fixed it. Thank you kindly!

While I'm here, maybe you know: Virtualdub is great when I want to crop out part of a video file, but what program does the same thing (as easily) for MKV/h.264 etc.? Like all the 720p stuff... Virtualdub says .mkv is an unknown/unsupported file type.

[Baldrick]

Try avidemux.

[crumbworks]

avidemux worked perfectly. thank you x 2.