MP4 Cutter/Splitters work?

MikeLV wrote on 6/1/2018, 11:31 AM

In a previous post, I complained about how when using the Vegas2Handbrake script, when I have a lot of regions to render to separate files, I have to do them one at a time because of the need to add one second for the audio sync issue. An idea occurred to me but I'm not sure if it would work. What if I render the whole timeline to my MP4 file with Handbrake normally, and then use one of these MP4 cutter/splitter programs to chop the file up into the individual files I need. Would that work? Those programs aren't supposed to re-encode I believe. If this would work, what program would you recommend using?

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john_dennis wrote on 6/1/2018, 12:05 PM

I use VideoReDo TV Suite sometimes for cutting and splicing. It will cut without re-encoding except for a few frames at the beginning and end points. If there are black gaps in your program you might never know it was cut after the render from Vegas. That isn't the reason I bought the program, though. I originally used it to fix OTA streams from my DVR. No one program does it all. Yesterday, I finished a project using media from many different sources and I used Handbrake, VideoReDo and FFMPEG to prepare files for editing in Vegas.

Musicvid wrote on 6/1/2018, 12:26 PM

These files can be cocatenated, but sync becomes a crapshoot if it gets cut on a ref or b-pyramid frame.

VRD is the most reliable method because it fixes normal stream errors, as well as reindecing, etc.

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