Batch cutting of first 1:07 (intro) and last 0:36 (credits)?

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I'm looking for something that will cut out the first 1:07 and the last 0:36 from an avi. I have about 2000 of these and going through by hand would take forever. Eventually, I want to re-compress using ffmpegx into ipod H.264. Note that the time lengths vary +/- 30 seconds, so I cant say cut between 1:07 and 19:29. I just need the last 36 seconds removed. Any ideas?

[rpg]

Anyone?

[rumplestiltskin]

MPEG Streamclip will do this. It may not give you the same quality (YMMV, as they say) but it's worth a shot. The app is free.

[rpg]

Yes, I had noticed before that mpegstream clip has an excellent batch processor, and that was actually the ipod h.264 batch'er I was going to use. Unfortunately, I need to cut the intro and credits and that isn't one of the options to batch.

Thanks for the suggestion though!

[rumplestiltskin]

It appears that you will have to go through each of the 2000 avi's individually so that you can set the "in" and "out" points, right? If so, why not open the avi in QT Player, select the part of the movie you want to keep, copy, open a new QT Player window, paste, and "save as" a reference movie? (This is not an "export" which would take a long time.) Once you have all of the reference movies saved, drop them into MPEG Streamclip. It's perfectly happy to work with QT reference movies.

Note that you might need QT Pro in order to do the "save as" I suggest.

Let us know if this does the trick.

[rpg]

Ug, I was hoping to avoid doing this all by hand. Thanks for you help!

[rumplestiltskin]

QT Player is scriptable (AppleScript) but you'd have to have some way of defining exactly where the script needs to define the I/O points as each avi has different points, right?

Maybe another reader can chime in and take this a bit farther.

Good luck!