Editing and Key Frame problems...

[modem]

I'm not sure if anyone can help me with this problem... I have a movie here (Dirty Harry) that I want to edit and remove some nude scenes that I find offensive. I LOVE the movie, but me and other family members would not wish to view nudity when burning this to VCD and watching it on the family dvd player.

Currently I am using VirtualDub to edit avi files, then save the pieces and join them together. The problem I am having is that in Dirty Harry the scenes I would like to remove are no more than 5-10 frames MAX. Although when I establish a starting point, it starts from the nearest Key Frame which usually is not close to the few frames I want to remove.

Is there anyway I can remove certain frames without having to use a starting point of a Key frame... or even make the frames I want to remove key frames?? This would a big help for me in editing those tiny innuendo's that popup in most movies so the family can watch them as well.

Bradley

[bbb]

Why don't you try Tmpgenc Source Range to edit your clips? It cuts fairly precise for me.

What's offensive about nude scenes? Whatever happened to "make love not war?"

[BJ_M]

its his choose if they want to watch people getting thier heads blown off instead of a little nudity ...

[Anonymous65]

If your file is an mpeg file, you can find editors that will edit on any frame. If it's a Divx file, then I don't know. Ulead Videostudio 6 will cut any frame and will only re-encode the video to the next I-frame and then use the already encoded stream. Any editor that re-encodes the whole stream will degrade the video a lot. If you capture avi, then all your cutting should be done *before* you encode the video.

[modem]

If your file is an mpeg file, you can find editors that will edit on any frame. If it's a Divx file, then I don't know. Ulead Videostudio 6 will cut any frame and will only re-encode the video to the next I-frame and then use the already encoded stream. Any editor that re-encodes the whole stream will degrade the video a lot. If you capture avi, then all your cutting should be done *before* you encode the video.

It's a pure divx encoded file that was straight from a DVD. I haven't yet converted it to a MPEG, althought I had thought about that but wasn't sure of the quality loss that I would get. My goal is to remove those frames and leave it in Divx.avi format to burn on a CD-R for archival purposes.

[vhelp]

modem,
I'm so bashful

Anyways, he, he...
* just open the divX in vdub and select a range along the
time-line (highlite) and delete.
* next, select Video/DirectStreamCopy, same for Audio
* then, File/SaveAsAVI the new, "edited" divX version

There you have it.
If you wanna re-encode it to other format mpeg file, then after
doing the above steps, just frameserve it into tmpg. Only problem
is that you may not land in the exact keyframe or frame where
you cut your "edited" seen. But, you can try it and see.

I think Jennifer Lopez feals the same way, .."why is everyone
always talking about my butt??" ..as she scoots down, w/ her
butt popping out, high in the air. ..."why??"
..then, she puts out a video about her "butt", her latest video:
"I'm stell Jenny from the BUTT" he, he... ..."I'm still jiggly
from the BUTT".. he, he... I know the truth.. you can't fool me, he, he...

If anyone saw that interview on MTV. sheesh. She was so upset, and
then she puts out that video. Sheesh!!

Well, see if that works.
-vhelp

[modem]

Unfortuantely that too doesn't work because it doesn't stop/start at the EXACT frame where I tell it to, rather it goes to the nearest Keyframe still catching a few scenes/frames that I don't want seen.