Fastest way to split AVI

jetdv wrote on 12/15/2002, 10:24 PM
I have a roughly 13 Gig AVI file captured with Scenalyzer that MUST be edited in Cinestream. Unfortunately, Cinestream can only see the first 2 Gig of an AVI file. I see two possible options:
1. Load the AVI file in Vegas and render to Quicktime.
2. Load the AVI file to Vegas and render 9 minute chunks.

Unfortunately, either will take a significant amount of time. Is there a quicker way to split the AVI file?

Edward

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Spot|DSE wrote on 12/15/2002, 11:34 PM
Vegas won't take ANY time to render a new 2 gig file, if you don't touch the attributes of the file. If you captured in Vegas, then it's just DV, and will render almost immediately in the 9 minute files. I'd go 8 mins just to be on the safe side though.
taliesin wrote on 12/16/2002, 5:50 AM
Edward, I could think about two solutions:

You took ScenalyzerLive for capturing, didn't you? Now why don't you use Scenalyzer (not that "Live"-version), the freeware version, to split that file into it's single takes.

Or what about CatDV - you know about it or maybe you even own it?
Useful for splitting files automatically too and it can output to Quicktime reference files which will be accepted by CineStream too.

The fact I am curious about is why CineStream does only see the first 2 GB of that AVI file. Looks like it depends of which AVI-type was used. So maybe a tool which switches the AVI-types might be the one to use to make CineStream accept the larger file size. Canopus offers a freeware tool which does that job, I'll take a look where to get it from ...

Marco
jetdv wrote on 12/16/2002, 9:02 AM
Well, I opted to go the Split at 9 minutes and render to new AVI file route. It looks like it is going to take about 7 minutes for each 9 minute segment to "copy" the video (since no changes were made to require "rendering"). That's not too bad for a PIII 750 MHz computer with a single 40 GB hard drive. Then Cinestream will have the 7 or 8 files it needs to see the full hour. Unfortunately, this involved giving someone who has never seen Vegas a crash course in adding to the timeline, splitting, and rendering of the sections. However, Vegas is so easy to use that he was able to quickly get the splits made and start the rendering process.

Edward
jetdv wrote on 12/16/2002, 10:45 AM
Well, on the rendered 9 minute files, Cinestream could only see the FIRST GIG (4 1/2 minutes). So, I had them check the "strictly conform to AVI type 2" box and it could still only see the first gig. So, I decided it was time to step back and punt - we are now recapturing from the master tape, that was recorded at the same time as the live capture, using Scenalyzer set to split at 2 Gigs (probably should have just done this first).