How to join clips in Mpeg Video Wizard? (Thanks)

[seymoria]

Hi all.

Kindly advise on how to join 2 smaller clips to form a larger one in Mpeg Video Wizard (latest version 2007).

Also how to split a large Mpeg into two or more smaller segments.

Browsed the help but could not quite figure out how to do it.

Thanks and regards.

Amer

[TJohns]

To join clips...

1) Right-click on INPUT window, OPEN first clip, drag down to timeline.
2) Right-click on INPUT window, OPEN second clip, drag down to timeline following first clip.
3) Repeat for all required clips
4) EXPORT button on timeline, select required output format & SAVE

To split a clip...

1) Right-click on INPUT window, OPEN clip.
2) Move cursor to beginning of first section, mark in (I)
3) Move to end of first section, mark out (O)
4) Drag INPUT window down to timeline (only marked section will copy)
5) EXPORT timeline to new file
6) Remove first section from timeline, repeat steps 2-5 for further sections

Trev

[Alex_ander]

An alternate way of splitting a clip or making a selection:
1.Drag it from anywhere (or preferably from FILE tab) to timeline.
2.Mark in/out positions in OUTPUT window.
3.Export range after using 'WorkArea' (default is All) button in export window.
4.For next cut use 'mark in' button where you've just used 'out' (or find a new in position if you don't want everything), find and mark 'out' position in OUTPUT and repeat (3), etc.

[seymoria]

Thanks for the help.

But 'save' button on the timeline saves something called a 'project' and its not an mpeg.

Regards.
Amer

[seymoria]

I got it. Its the Monitor button to start the save.

Thanks a lot. Love this forum.

Regards.

[Jedi787Plus]

I have a serious audio-related problem when joining VOBs in MPEG Video Wizard. Whenever the Timeline transitions from one VOB to the next, some audio is lost (no smooth audio continuity - about 1/10th of a second is trimmed out from the beginning of the next VOB), but nothing gets out of sync. The final MPG file exported by MPEG Video Wizard thus has no audio during those VOB-to-VOB transition instants. Video continuity, however, is still preserved - only audio continuity is compromised. This happens with both AC3 and PCM audio tracks.

For AC3 audio, my only useful workaround is to use VOB2MPG to join the separate VOBs into a single MPG file. However, when I have both AC3 and DTS audio tracks in the VOBs, VOB2MPG's FFMPEG tool crashes (doesn't like DTS?).

For PCM audio, VOB2MPG also joins the VOBs into an MPG file, but the audio in the output MPG sounds noisy/corrupted to every program that used DirectSound decoders (like Windows Media Player and MPEG Video Wizard), although it is continuous. For this case alone, I open the VOB2MPG-output MPG with VirtualDub-MPEG2 (does not use DirectSound) and extract the PCM audio to an uncompressed WAV file (which is essentially PCM data with a different header), then use MPEG Video Wizard to mute the VOB2MPG-output MPG (thus eliminating the VOB2MPG-mishandled PCM audio) and add the VirtualDub-output WAV file. Then export with Linear PCM option and the end result is a single MPG file with correctly-sounding, fully-continuous PCM audio. But right now, VOB2MPG is crashing in my computer even though I have made no changes to my computer's codec configuration.

For DTS audio only, I have no workaround since VOB2MPG crashes when encountering DTS. Does anybody here know any other workaround for MPEG Video Wizard's VOB audio-joining problem?