Problems Cutting MPEG video in VIRTUALDUB

[Rudyard]

I have a stack of music videos with little end tags that I wish to get rid of, they are all either at the end or beginning of the video clip, I dont need to edit in the video clip itself. Anyway I have been searching the net and searching this forum and got to a program called MPEG2CUT which appears to be working but there is a slight pause on the final frame (no big deal, its over by then) and I cant seem to find a batch mode.

SO I tried virtualdub as I know you can set up a heap of vids and run the batch mode rather than individually.

Can I direct stream copy with just the beginning or end removed an MPEG file? I cant get it to work, needs to save i to an AVI (which would bother me if its just a container thing containing the exact same data) but it tells me 'direct stream video cannot be used with this video stream'. Somethng about incompatible algorythms.

Anyway, as im not a pro it may be something I am doing wrong or It may not be possible but can anyone helpout, can virtual dub do what im asking?

In a nutshell, cut the beginning or end without reencoding and (prays) in batch mode?

Thanks for any help.

[manono]

Can I direct stream copy with just the beginning or end removed an MPEG file?

No, not with MPEGs.

[Rudyard]

Bummer, thanks for the reply.

Can anyone confirm if this following will do what im looking for (cut start or end without reencoding).

I found ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO 9 on my old XP machine, havent used it for a while, but there is an option to use 'smart rendering'.

I think this only renders changes rather than the whole video, since im only cutting from the start or end, does that mean I get exactly what im after? (except the batch encode!)

It is easy to use and doesnt create the pause I am getting with MPEG2CUT.

I think it is not rendering it again since it only takes a matter of seconds to create the file.

Anyone had any experience with this?