joining

[kjslg]

hi can anybody help me,i have been trying for days now to try and join a film that came in two parts but because there is an overlap i get a gliche where they join,is there a way(or a guide )to over come this so i get a smooth join


any help much appreciated
thanx in advance

[teegee420]

What have you tried and why do you need to join it?

[US Guy]

Check the guides to the left. You not only help yourself, you help us too.

[Grimey]

are they avi's or mpeg's?

[Josef K]

What have you tried and why do you need to join it?

Most likely, kjslg is talking about a VCD/SVCD created by DVD2SVCD with the overlap setting in use. By default the overlap is (as I remember) two seconds. I also think that kjslg wants to put both MPEGs onto a single DVD (as I have done) to avoid the frustration of being in the middle of a gripping action scene, only to be confronted by a 'Change CD' picture or the player's 'screensaver' mode. It's also no fun to be listening to a crucial piece of dialogue, essential to the continuance of the story, only to hear the last two seconds again. Quite jarring.

Anyway, all I can think of offhand is to edit the second MPEG in Womble or similar. Set your Mark in point (after, I'm sure, many tedious hours trying to get it perfect so both MPEGs flow seamlessly) and the end of the MPEG as Mark out and save it. A hassle. No quick and simple way to do it. The only advice I can give is to move your Mark in points a second at a time since DVD2SVCD only allows overlap settings at those intervals. So, unless the overlap is something ridiculous, like ten seconds, you should only have to edit maybe a couple of times to get it just right. Maybe even the first time will be spot-on since a second is a long time in editing, relatively, so you should be able to tell if you're at the correct place.

[kjslg]

thanx for the advice josef k
i don't know how the film was converted but i will try to edit the second mpeg as i have been trying to cut the first

[Josef K]

...i will try to edit the second mpeg as i have been trying to cut the first

Chances are, the second MPEG will repeat the last few seconds of the first one. You just need to cut off the needed amount of seconds and you should be OK, if all goes according to plan.

[sacajaweeda]

If you use AVISynth to join the two clips you can load the AVS file into VDubMod and flip through it frame by frame and splice the two files seamlessly.

[regular8mm]

Nero Vision Experss joins MPEG files seamlessly, no squeek like in TMPGEnc. Finally, I no longer need to use bbMPEG to join a few capture avi files into larger MPEG ones.