Splitting and Combining Movie Files

wary

Apologies if this has been discussed many times before ...

I’m after some kind of video splitter software (preferably something that can handle AVI files). I really only need it to split up or chop bits out of my home camcorder videos which have been converted onto DVD a tape at a time (and then ripped as an AVI). The facility to join movie files into one file would also be very useful.

I’m happy to pay (within reason) for something decent.

Stooby2

Try Microsoft Movie Maker - its free and if not already on your your pc, is easily downloadable.

I use Roxio media creator, which isn't very cheap, but does have some excellent features.

paddyrg

What you want to do is known as video editing. Search for the term, the range of products to do this ranges from free to many thousands of pounds, depending on what you need to accomplish. Free will do what you're asking!

I'd start with Windows Movie Maker - it is probably already installed on your computer or can be downloaded for free direct from Microsoft. As your experience grows you can go for fancier options, but WMM is good enough for 90% of peoples needs TBH

Weird_Nev

Another vote for windows movie maker. It's really quite straight forwards to drag and drop videos into it, set start and end points, and even choose transitions between clips. Then it'll help you upload them to a youtube account or export them whole.

Your videos are safe on DVD so just copy them over and have a play, you can't really go wrong.

It's not worth paying for anything more fancy unless you need more features.

custardy

http://www.virtualdub.org/download.html

does the job

Laz123

If you use WMM or similar you'll have to re-render which depending on the file size can take hours. Post 5 is the best option so you don't have to.

paddyrg

Laz123 wrote: »

If you use WMM or similar you'll have to re-render which depending on the file size can take hours. Post 5 is the best option so you don't have to.

Not necessarily - WMM reads and AVI natively, and frankly AVI is a poor choice of container for exporting again so an export in another format is usually a good plan anyway. WMV is almost certainly good enough for the OP's needs, and saves a heap of space. Transcoding is not a big job on a modern machine.

Pikeyp

There are some free tools here that do a reasonable job ...

http://www.doeasier.org/