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Guek
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I think this'll qualify as "technology" but if need be, I'll move this over to the help/advice forum.
What I've been wanting to do for a long time now is cut off all the intro and end credits for all the shows and movies I've ripped onto my computer over the years. My question is, what video software, free or not, is available that will let me do that without having a loss in quality or a need to compress the file and save it as a different video format? All the programs I've been using end up compressing the file which is something I really don't want.
What I've been wanting to do for a long time now is cut off all the intro and end credits for all the shows and movies I've ripped onto my computer over the years. My question is, what video software, free or not, is available that will let me do that without having a loss in quality or a need to compress the file and save it as a different video format? All the programs I've been using end up compressing the file which is something I really don't want.
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You could try VirtualDub http://www.virtualdub.org/
I used it just yesterday to convert a massive avi from my digi cam down to a very tiny size (570mb to 26mb) but whilst I was looking through the how-to's, I'm pretty sure I read something about it being handy for appending and removing bits from video files, without effecting quality.
Of course, this probably all depends on what format your movies are in, but it could be what you're lookin' for.
VirtualDub can do some super-slick stuff if you're dealing with AVI files, especially if you're in "Direct Stream Copy" mode for video and audio. In that mode, it doesn't recompress anything, it just disassembles and reassembles AVI streams. In that mode you can get rid of the intro and the credits and then save the final file at about 2,000 fps.
In order to edit out commercials, though, you need to save each segment of the show in its own file then open the first one and use "Append AVI Segment" to combine them all, then write it all to disk in Direct Stream Copy mode.
For me, assembling the pieces of a 40 minute show in 720p takes about 5 minutes. (However, at 720p, encoding each segment in the first place takes hours.)