TMPGEnc Cutting

[DCyrus]

I'm trying to cut a VCD in two halves so i can fit each half on 1 cd each (as the complete file is 950mb).

I successfully cut out the first half using TMPGEnc but for some reason it isn't letting me cut the second half out at all, and i sometimes get a strange error message.
I've tried to use other programs, but they're all trial period only and i can't cut the lenght i need to.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanx in advance

[DVWannaB]

Ok, cutting with TMPG is tricky, but can be accomplished. First, make sure to check on the pull-down the description that best matches your input video (MPEG-1 or Video CD or VCD non-standard). After locating and selecting your video file, double click to do your cuts. I HIGHLY recommend that you use the START and END section. Use the slider bar to find your start cut segment. Enter that time into the START section. Then find the end of the segment you want to cut. Enter that time into END. Hit OK. Select new file name and then process it.

I just did it 2 days ago on a 3.1GB XVCD file (non-standard). Got it onto 4 disks and all play just fine.

[Teaser]

Got th esame problem. First I de-multiplex the mpeg-file and then I multiplex them again. After done that it's possible for me to cut the movie in half.

Got it to work after a fashion
Here's how much will work and how.

It is very sensitive so be careful, do not click around unnecessarly.

Open TMPGENc, cancel the wizard, file, MPEG tools, merge & cut, SVCD-2 Super Video CD (VBR), that's the one used here to cut 480x480 SVCD files,
Add, Have your files already in the My Documents folder, select one file, for Output - Browse, type a name and the .mpg extension, save.
Double click on the file name that you added, Careful now...
> "play", ll "pause", during play you may press { for the in point or press it first then > "play", both did work for me, you could pause then press the inpoint marker, during play I press { then at the end of a scene or just before it ends so it doesn't go too far I press } on the fly, OK, Run. It saves the selected area.
You must play the entire selection, do not scrub, do not move the place marker, do not click back or forward one frame, do not click a number up or down more than one time for only one number, it usually takes one click before freezing up.
When it freezes up, because you clicked too many things too many times, press Ctrl/Alt/Del, End Task, End Task, and try again.
That is why your file is in the My Documents forder since it always goes there first.
If you happen to succeed, you may return to the file by double clicking on the added file name; the marker will begin at your old in point, press play '>' and hit '{' on the fly just after the old out point at the start of the next scene. This it will do over and over again.
It is rather like editing with two VHS decks or a VCR camera and a Deck using the two finger editing method of long ago.

Joining all the cuts together. Add, Add, Add, Add, in the proper order, name a file to save to and be sure to add the .mpg extension. Each file may be further edited or cut by double clicking on the name, press { at the start and } at the end if you started too soon or ended too late the first time, one after another may be trimmed in this way.
A file that is very very short, just a few seconds, this will not work for and may require you to reboot, however, the joined final project took alright and played after the reboot.
Run the join project with all the new edit points entered and the SVCD will play. Each joint will have an artifact. On low volumn it will be very slight. Turn up the volumn and you will hear a squeek or a pop or a silent drop out at each joint.
The file may be sinple demultiplexed, the audio entered into the main window under audio, under file, the file may be saved as a wave, entered into Premiere, audio artifacts repared, exported, then remultiplexed in bbMPEG and even Nero will burn it. Nero will NOT like it if TMPGEnc plexes.