MPEG Streamclip Problem

[ker-plop]

I've been trying to save an AVI file on MPEG Streamclip, but it crashes during the save. If it doesn't crash, the video comes out dragging and frozen in places. What can I do? Is there a better film editor (I'm trying to cut parts of the file)?

[headless chicken]

Have you tried D-Vision's split avi tool?

[ker-plop]

Not quite sure how to do that...

[headless chicken]

In D-Vision, you have several options for splitting AVI files. Open the Tools menu, select Segment avi file, and load the file you want to cut. Select a target folder for your new files, and then select the method you want to cut by. You can cut by either movie length, or setting a chunk size.

If you chose to split the movie by length, use the dropdown arrow next to Action choice to either permit D-Vision to find the halfway point of the file, or chose a splicing point yourself via visual setting or play your file in Quicktime to get a precise location to the second.

Alternately, if you want to cut your movie into a specific file size (ie. 700MB), select Size and enter the number manually, or select 0.5x source (to cut the file into two equal chunks) from the Preset dropdown arrow. If you decide to cut via file size, say 700MB, and you end up with two files that are 700MB and one left over file that is a few MB in size, just use D-Vision's AVI join tool to merge the latter two.

It's all pretty straightforward.

[ker-plop]

Well, I found that, but what I was looking to do is to cut from a certain time to a certain other time, not just cleave a whole chunk out.

[headless chicken]

Use D-Vision to repair the AVI file and then load it back into MPEG Streamclip to cut out the desired portion.

[tomlee59]

Although doing what you wish would be easier with a professional editing tool, you can still make do using D-Vision, which can both cut and join. That's all you need to remove selected portions. Example: Let's say you want to remove a piece from the middle, and leave the rest intact. The two cut boundaries divide the file into three segments; let's call them A, B and C. First cut at the A-B boundary. That produces two files, the second of which contains B and C together. Use the cutting tool again to separate the B and C segments from each other. Finally, use the join tool to put the A and C segments together. A little clunky, yes, and the timing resolution leaves something to be desired, but it works well and it's free.