Sharing my easy way of cutting a movie in 2

[thomcats]

Found an easy way to cut a movie in 2 parts that even a Newbie like me can handle.

You need:
HJSplit 2.2 found on www.freebyte.com/hjsplit (Freeware)
MPEG Corrector found on www.wilcox.demon.co.uk (Freeware)
a player that can handle MPEG-2 files like for example WinDVD

A MPEG-file, size 750 MB, will be cut in half by HJSplit in about 4 min, sound and all.

Run your movie - we can call it Movie.mpg - through HJSPlit. You will then have 2 new parts stored in the same directory as the original movie that remains unaltered. The 2 new parts have file-endings that you will have to change. They look like this: Movie.mpg.001 and Movie.mpg.002. Remove the 001- and 002-endings and change the filenames so as not to confuse with original to for example: Movie1.mpg and Movie2.mpg.

The first of the 2 parts can be played without any problems on for example Windows Media Player. The second half should be played on a player that can handle MPEG-2 like WinDVD. The second half can present some problems.

My first try worked like a charm if I played the second part in WinDVD. No probs with either picture or sound. The second movie I tried was larger, 750 MB, and at first the second part didn't want to play in WinDVD but after running it through MPEG Header Corrector it also played without probs on WinDVD.

Have Fun!
thomcats

[WildParadise]

Way that I think is even easier.
Open the file with virtual dub.
Select start-end (which is where you wanna split and the end)
press delete.
Save i to like movie1.mpg.
Reload it
re-Select the Start-end(which is the start and where you have splitted it)
press delete
save it to like movie2.mpg.
that's all.
Works with many format.

[dphirschler]

I like the Virtual Dub method better. I like to select where the split occurs so I get nothing like...

End of disc-1:
"Help me Obi Wan Kanobi. You're [snip]..."

Beginning of disc-2:
"... my only hope."

[thomcats]

Sounds cool if it takes care of the sound without any probs.

thomcats

[hazchem]

i have a real easy way try doing half the movie at a time hahaha dont get much easier

lol im a nut try doing half the movie at a time

[WildParadise]

nice to know hazchem
try the edit button
you forgot to wrote it I think

[Wintermute1011]

Way that I think is even easier.
Open the file with virtual dub.
Select start-end (which is where you wanna split and the end)
press delete.
Save i to like movie1.mpg.
Reload it
re-Select the Start-end(which is the start and where you have splitted it)
press delete
save it to like movie2.mpg.
that's all.
Works with many format.

uhh, i just tried it, and it makes a big ass file. Cant fitt on a cd. I clicked on save as AVI, and the file ending .mpg. What did i do wrong?

[WildParadise]

Have to do direct stream copy in video and audio

[2dogs2]

Virtual Dub seems like it ONLY SAVES in AVI format not MPG.

[dphirschler]

Virtual Dub seems like it ONLY SAVES in AVI format not MPG.

What's wrong with that? You split the file BEFORE encoding, not after. And WildParadise is right; use 'direct stream' when splitting, not 'full processing'. Save 'full processing' for when you are going to run the filters and frameserve.


Darryl

[2dogs2]

The original post was asking about splitting MPG not AVI. Why go through all the extra work of converting to AVI when it is already in MPG format ?

[vitualis]

You can cut MPEGs with the included TMPGEnc cutter and in my experience it has been a great frame accurate cutter...

However, depending on how you encoded your MPEG, TMPGEnc may or may not work well...

For some guides, click on "How To Edit" in the green section on the left.

Else, peruse or search through the editing, cutting and joining forum for other threads on cutting MPEG.

Regards.