Blu-ray custom clip making

[mostin5000]

This might still be too soon to request/search for such software, but I will post anyway :

I am looking for a SIMPLE program that will extract custom video clips from a blu-ray movie WITHOUT re-encoding the video.

I am not looking for a m2ts or h264 file editor as such, I am looking for a program that you can load your blu-ray disk into and browse the whole movie chapter by chapter with a preview window so you can see where to start clipping/extracting from or to.

For DVD's I use Cinematize (by Miraizon) because it seems to be the only tool in existance that you can preview the whole movie chapter by chapter and cut bits you want and export to the exact same format (with optional audio track selection) without needing to re-encode the files.

The bonus for this is to save yourself wasted time and quality re-encoding files just to get the clips u want.

I fear the only way to do this currently is to edit the individual m2ts (or demuxed h264 files) but hoping somebody has knows a program that is designed to extract clips from blu-ray disks as described above.

I have googled every relevant phrase that might show me such software but every one comes up is DVD only, not blu-ray.

many thanks

[GeeForce11]

I use Pinnacle Studio to edit m2ts files.

Try the free tsremux if you just want to cut out parts of the m2ts.

[mostin5000]

thankyou, I didn't realize that tsremux has a "split and cut" feature where you can insert timeframes to-from.

It still would be nice to have a preview window for splitting and cutting rather than viewing it first in a player, noting down the time, then loading into tsremux, but I guess it will have to do for now

[mostin5000]

upon futher thought..

Try the free tsremux if you just want to cut out parts of the m2ts.

Since the main movie on blu-ray disks are usually split into several m2ts files it's damn near impossible to find the timeframe you want to extract in relation to the whole movie timeframe, especially without a preview window.

I use Pinnacle Studio to edit m2ts files.

This could be good, but I believe this re-encodes the video when saving (correct me if I am wrong), as stated before this wastes time and quality that I would prefer not to loose.


thanks anyway

[GeeForce11]

upon futher thought..

Try the free tsremux if you just want to cut out parts of the m2ts.

Since the main movie on blu-ray disks are usually split into several m2ts files it's damn near impossible to find the timeframe you want to extract in relation to the whole movie timeframe, especially without a preview window.

Preview any m2ts files with media players (if you have all the software installed and configured properly) or Nero Showtime, mark the times and cut with tsremux. Doesn't matter how many hundreds of m2ts files you have, in this case have to go file by file and then you can copy them into one m2ts with TSmuxeR.

[mostin5000]

I have tried a few movies now, luckely it seems not all films seem to use multiple m2ts files for the main movie content so its not so bad.

And yeah, I am doing what you suggest now of previewing in MPC first, noting times and splitting with tsMuxer and joining after if needed.

If I win the lottery I will hire a team of programmers to make software to do all these manual procedures automatically at once with one interface! But lets hope Miraizon or another software team/person gets the idea first though and save me a few bucks

thx for the tips

[mostin5000]

For those who might be interested or in case I forget and need for future reference;

I recently disovered (to my delight) if you locate and load the main movie playlist file (eg, 00001.mpls) into tsremuxer, it will automatically load all the main movie m2ts files and u can just set the overall movie timeframe of when u want clipped to-from and it will calculate which m2ts file that timeframe belongs to, automatically!

So to answer my own question correctly, yes there is a program and yes it is dead simple! (no preview but its easy enough to note down the times whlie watching the whole movie)

sweet huh?