Copying a small portion of a 13 Gig file in Media Center

[hindermi]

I copied a golf tournament using microsoft media center and I want to retain a 30 second clip from the broadcast. Any tips on how to do that? I have Adobe Premere. Also, if I wanted to burn the whole 13 Gig i am not sure how to break that up on to several 4.6 GB DVDs. Thanks for the help.

[daamon]

Hi hindermi,

I don't know microsoft media center, so apologies if this is an obvious question - what file format did it save the footage to? AVI? MPEG?

If it was AVI, check out VirtualDub (freeware) - you can set a start and end point (your 30 secs) and then save that to a new AVI.

If it's MPEG - Womble MPEG-VCR might be able to do the job. I've never used it, but have read many times people saying it's good for editing MPEGs.

If it's AVI, there's a good chance that you could encode it to MPEG at a decent bitrate to get it onto one DVD. The source may come in to play here - was it analog TV, digital TV etc.?