trimming and cutting up long AVI's

[blackice]

Hi All

I'm looking to digitise my vast collection of VHS tapes from 1990 onwards into AVI format on my Archos AV500 or something similiar.

As its a 3hrs tape and there's several shows per tape, what app would I use to trim out the extra and cut them up?

There's a great app called MP3 trimmer for the Mac which I used for old cassette tapes, basically need something like that for avi's.

cheers

M

[Case]

Explicit AVI Cutter does exactly what you want, splitting, and nothing more.
MPEG Streamclip has loads of features, one of them saving a selection.

[terryxpress]

How are you actually digitalizing the tapes? Your previous post indicated you were using a DVD recorder (and finding out that it all happens in real time!). If so, then doesn't it have a Divide feature, so that after transferring a tape to the internal DVD recorder harddrive, you can break it into separate programs? But you're in for a hellava lot of work, then recording them as distinct episodes to the one DVD disc, then reading from the DVD by, and using, MPegstreamClip to convert each (but as a batch) to AVi before you can transfer to Archos.

[blackice]

Hi

I can digitise and put stuff on DVD with the Lite On, which too date i've only done a few of.

The archos is another route for direct AVI recording. Thats what the apps would be for.

I may end up sorting through the tapes and break them into three groups - dump, DivX and DVD-record. Based on content.

M

[B-Twien Bytes]

Hello all,

I am facing a same kind of 'problem' as blackice, only for Windows not MAC
Could I use the suggested Explicit AVI cutter for that?

If not, I am looking for a free program (might VirtualDub be a good program?) what I can use to trim original AVI files , by taking bad scenes / parts away....

Another person in the States is going to use those AVI's and edit them to a final product.

Thanks for the input!