Just want to chop out some video

knockatoone wrote on 6/8/2011, 7:22 PM

Can VMS10 be used to simply chop out some pieces of a video and just use the reduced size with out all the rendering et al ??....... I just want to send it to a camera manufacturer in an Email to show a zoom/focusing problem ..... and have a 25MB file size limit... If not what will do this simple edit - (yes I could render down the quality to get a smaller file but would rather not ??)
Thanks, K

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Eugenia wrote on 6/8/2011, 7:39 PM

This is called "smart rendering" and it's only available for DV AVI and HDV .m2t files (and only when project properties are setup properly and no plugins were added). Any other format will have to be re-encoded.

laz wrote on 6/9/2011, 6:13 AM

I'm not sure but I think TMPEnc might be able to do this

http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/index.html

Eugenia wrote on 6/9/2011, 5:33 PM

FFmpeg in the command line can do that too, but it requires a bit of MS-DOS knowledge to use the command line.

knockatoone wrote on 6/10/2011, 8:15 AM

Thanks guys - would you beleive Win Movie Maker will do it ...decided to give it a try as it seemed a simple thing to do --so a simple program might do it !!

Chienworks wrote on 6/10/2011, 7:45 PM

I suspect that Windows Movie Maker is probably re-encoding most formats just as Vegas does.

vectorizer wrote on 6/22/2011, 5:29 PM

If you just want to cut HD video, and avoid re-rendering, try "VideoReDo TVSuite H.264". It's great for cutting commericals from HDTV files, for instance. But it's $100; only worth it if you do simple cut editing a lot. VideoReDo can also re-render if you pick a different output format, but that's not it's main use.