In/Out bug or not what I think it is?

TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/21/2005, 7:58 PM

I tried using the in/out feature on video clips today to basicly trim an mpeg down from 60 minutes to 2 minutes. It worked when played back, BUT it still rendered the entire mpeg file (was the full 3.5gb's, but the couple hundred mb's it should of been).

Is this normal? when I did this on TMPGencDVD Author it actuatly trimmed the media & didn't render the un-trimmed stuff (I looked in the help & I gathered that it was susposed to work the way Ithought it would: cut out stuff you don't want)

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ScottW wrote on 6/21/2005, 8:31 PM

DVDA does not trim the media. It renders the entire file regardless of in/out points (or at least this is the case with 2.0 - I'm not sure if 3.0 changed, but I suspect not).

--Scott

TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/21/2005, 9:05 PM

bummer. Seems 3 does the same thing. :(

bStro wrote on 6/22/2005, 6:39 AM

FYI, I believe that DVDA would trim the media were it an AVI.

Until (if) Sony adds smart re-rendering to its MPEG2 encoding process, I don't imagine you'd want it to trim an MPEG2 -- 'cause then it would re-render the entire file!

Rob

TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/22/2005, 8:50 AM

tmpgenc DVDA just cuts the file, kinda like their standalone mpeg cutter does. I was hoping DVDA did the same thing with mpeg files. Sometimes I do a direct analog VHS/Hi8 to mpeg-2 via my ATI AIW & I used tmpgeng DVDA to automaticly trim the junk out of the video w/o bothering with a DV capture then encode.

i sent that off as a feature request. :)