Simple in out editing and conversion?

illusory wrote on 4/24/2011, 12:12 AM
Hello, the manual to DVDA states that's you can use in and out points set in the timeline of a video to determine what portion of that video you want to burn to the DVD. Well, that appears not to be true, unless someone can enlighten me :). 

The in out markers work just fine to determine what you see when you press the menu button for that video. But when you go to burn that video, it shows that the entire file will be burned to the DVD! Which takes all the space even when it isnt being used! That's just crazy, when you've set the in/out points! 

Clearly if I am to be able to use DVDA I will need something which can trim long mpg2 files, and not reencode them. Since they are already in the correct format for DVD. I dont want to degrade the video or audio quality. What can I use for this? I'd also like to be able to do the same thing for vob files -- cut a piece out of it to use, but not reencode it, as it is already suitable for DVD. 

And I ido need to recode movs, flvs, and some other formats to mpeg 2 so they will work in DVDA. 

So, what can I use to trim and only reencode when necessary, video files so they can  be used in in DVDA?

Anyone have a good system/answer for this?

Thanks,
NJ