Fast AVI Editing

[djnibler]

I've been using VirtualDub to edit AVI files with good success, but it is VERY slow.... slower then real time. I have a 35 minute avi file, which is a 30 minute show including commercials. I just want to edit the commercials out, but man is it sloooooow. My PC is XP with a P3 766. If I can capture the avi in real time, why can't I edit it in at least real time speed? Is there a better, faster edit/join tool then Virtual dub? If so, how much of a speed increase over Virtual Dub is it?

Thanks in advance!
Jeff

[spidey]

All you need to do is edit out your commercials by settings the in and out points of the commericals. Once the commercial section is marked. Hit your delete key. This deletes the frames with commercials. Do this per commericla segment.

Once finished either resvae the avi uncompressed, or you could put both modes into DirectStream Copy and resave it under a different name. What I'd recommend even more, is use the edited file and frameserve it via vdub into TMPG and encode it from there.

Hope this helps.

[djnibler]

Wow, thanks for all that info Spidey. Cutting the commercials makes perfect sense now... but the framserving is going to take a little more research. I'll do some searching for a how-to or an old post that has a lot of info on this and experiment to see if I can get it to work.

My AVI's use PICs motion MJPEG compressor..... will this work with frameserving from VirtualDub - tmpgenc? Also, does frameserving do anything to quality or the audio synch? Thanks again!!!

Jeff

[djnibler]

Geez, that frameserving is the way to go!!! I was initially under the impression that I would have to save each segment of the show to a separate files, then join them when I was done, then save that, then convert. This saves hours and hours. Getting the frameserving to work was pretty simple.

Spidey, THANK YOU!

Jeff