Need help deleting the first 2 seconds of avi.

[videocheez]

I have followed the guide next door about cutting an avi with virtual dub. These are he steps that I have followed:

1. select audio direct stream
2. select video direct stream
3. select the beginning of the clip that i want to delete
4. select the end of the clip that i want to delete
5. press delete and it goes away
6. then i save avi as a new file name

When I open the new avi the portion that I thought i deleted is still there.
I repeate the above listed steps but instead of saving avi, I saved avi segment or something like that. By saving avi segment i was able to delete the portion of the avi that i did not want but it was now a huge noncompressed avi.

I would like to know what I may have done during the first procedure or Iwould like to know how to recompress the new avi or both.

Thanks in advance,

VC

[bugster]

In virtualdub,
select video->direct stream copy,
audio->direct stream copy,
video-> select range
setting only frames,
set start frame to 50 (or 2 * your framerate)
set end frame to zero

file-> save as AVI

This should do it