Big Noob here, need help spliting AVI FILE

[MisterBasketball]

Hello, i have these .vob files that i concerted to avi. The sound works great, everything is in sych and what not. The problem is I just want to make the segments shorter so when i upload them to youtube i don't have any issues.
I used Easiest Soft Movie Editor to split the file into 3 segments. the software worked fast, however now each .avi file does not have ANY sound at all. None.

Also Just a side not, what video format would you recommend converting .vob files too. mp4? mpg2? MKV? it seems a-lot of 1080p movie files are in mkv i am not sure if that is just because that is a standard format, or if that is because mkv has the best video and audio support.

Side not two.
I tried to upload the entire file before, i converted .vob to mp4. I then uploaded to youtube, the file was over an hour long and over 1gb. When i play the file using vlc player with audio at 100 percent it works great. However when i uploaded it to youtube, the sound quality was terrible. So I researched it, and i converted the mp4 to a mp3 sound only. Then i used audiocracy(spelling) to amplfy the sound, then inputted the video file in windows live movie maker, and turned the video sound all the way down, and then drag and dropped the mp3 file over it. Again the sound was great when I played it from the file with vlc, however again when i uploaded it the sound quality was terrible. Even with sound at 100 percent, you could barely hear it, and friends said the same thing.

I know these are a-lot of details, but i hope you can provide me with just some basic support, because really I know very little.

[Baldrick]

Use a better cutter than easiest crappy software. Like avidemux, set stop and start, save as a new avi.

I would convert vob to mp4 or mkv with h264 video. Use vidcoder or handbrake.

[hello_hello]

I still use VirtualDubMod a fair bit for splitting/muxing AVIs.
Open an AVI. Under the Video menu select direct stream copy as the video compression method. Use the navigation slider while holding down the shift key to select a beginning and end point. Holding down the shift key forces the navigation to only land on keyframes (the only frames you can cut on without re-encoding). If you don't do that it mightn't cut correctly. With the start and end points selected, use the "File/Save As" menu to save the selection as a new AVI. Repeat the process for the next section.

Also Just a side not, what video format would you recommend converting .vob files too. mp4? mpg2? MKV? it seems a-lot of 1080p movie files are in mkv i am not sure if that is just because that is a standard format, or if that is because mkv has the best video and audio support.

MKV, MP4, AVI and VOB etc are all just containers. They can hold various types of audio, video and subtitles etc. MKV is the most versatile in that it'll hold just about anything. MKVMergeGUI will open a variety of file types and remux as MKV.
DVD VOB files contain mpeg2 video.
AVIs are mostly used for (but not limited to) mpeg4 part 2 video (commonly encoded with the Xvid encoder) and MP3 or AC3 audio.
The x264 encoder is commonly used for encoding mpeg4 part 10 video (or h264 or AVC as it's often called) and it's often found in MKV or MP4 containers.

I don't think YouTube supports MKV, but as Baldrick suggested, a program such as Vidcoder will encode with the x264 encoder and output either MKV or MP4.
I don't know what was happening with your audio volume, but YouTube recommends AAC audio and Handbrake or Vidcoder will give you that.

[MisterBasketball]

Use a better cutter than easiest crappy software. Like avidemux, set stop and start, save as a new avi.

I would convert vob to mp4 or mkv with h264 video. Use vidcoder or handbrake.

OMG thank you so much that works! And to think went through all of that other bs, turning video file to mp3, amplifying sound, playing mp3 over video, and just had to pick the right format.
i mean it obviously makes the file a-lot larger, but the pure quality is a-lot better. it turned my 330mb into 2.0gb.

thanks so much for the help! i used mp4 h264

[MisterBasketball]

hey guys i know this is probably a common problem, but when i joined all those avi files, files they the audio got out of sync, is that just because i am using bad software? i used the easiestsoft software for this.

also, just a weird side bit, when i converted from vob to avi originally and then found out the audio did not work right, and then converted from avi to mp4 h264, the audio worked great. however when i converted directly from vob to mp4 h264, the audio still was having problems. Does not make much sense, i am so knew to all of this hard to figure out whats what, and my computer isn't very fast, so if i experiment with settings and its wrong that is about 6 hours wasted from conversion to upload.

[blud7]

If using Avidemux, use copy for both streams. The files will be the same size (total) as the original.
If you want frame accuracy (extremely accurate cuts) select codecs for audio and video and reencode.
If you want to reencode at a particular file size, use a fixed or average bitrate.