video editing

[thegreyman]

Hi all, is there a way to cut a movie in half some how?
I need a good editor or sumthing cos when i try with virtualDub the half of the movie ends up being like 20Gb (thats right)
The reason I ask is cos I want to put a large movie onto VCD's by cutting it in half.
thanks in advance

 

[crabonhead]

use windows movie maker. thats all i know about video editing.

 

[Digital_Junkie]

I freelance video editing to help pay the bills and, although I'm shamed to say it, WM9 Encoder (Windows Media 9 Encoder) gives you the best quality/size ratio you can get for free. It's might even be one of the best overall except the .wmv format has a really tough time with high-quality video output. Just use a variable bit rate and the rest will take care of itself.

Download it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx

Now if you meant you want to cut it in half time-wise and not size-wise just use Windows Movie Maker. It sucks like you wouldn't believe but if you've never used an editor before; there's nothing simpler.

 

[Latin_Jones]

If your file is that big when you try to do it with virtualdub it's because you are creating an uncompressed avi....from the video menu, choose the compression option and use divx or something like that to do the encoding. It will let you specify the bitrate, in your case I think it's 1152kbps for VCD.....

But...these other guys are right. Windows movie maker will do it the easiest...

 

[Digital_Junkie]

Aw crap! I really have to start reading the whole, small post before giving advice...

He wants a VCD! The program you want to make one of those is TMPGEnc (don't let the name scare you, it has a very friendly interface). VCD's must be encoded in MPEG-1. That is the only encoding that will work and they must be... uh... Damn it's been forever since I made a VCD, I'll be right back. OK, I found it.

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/svcd-guides.htm

Everything you need can be found there. I warn you though that VCD's make for terrible video quality (but decent sound). For the $80 it'd cost to buy a DVD burner you'd save yourself a lot of trouble.

 

[thegreyman]

thanks a lot guys all great info