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Cutting and joining mpeg videos

 
If you need to cut or join a video in mpeg format 1 or 2, then the programme you need is TMPGEnc

This is a great application which allows you to change Divx into SVCD, so that they can be saved as VideoCD and seen on a normal TV (although the quality of VideoCD, or SuperVCD on  most Tvs is not particularly good).

A second important function of this app, which is the one that is most relevant to us in this case, is that of easily cutting and/or joining video in a mpeg 1 or 2 format.


This software is FREE if you save in mpeg 1 format; however, if you wish to save in mpeg 2, the app is only free for the first 30 days. Given that the largest part of videos are in mpeg 1 and that our aim is not that of creating SVCD but simply cutting and joining videos there are no problems and the mpeg 1 format is fine.


Here are the are step-by-step instructions for cutting videos

1) Launch TMPGEnc. Click on Cancel on the window that asks you to choose your type of VCD.

2) Click on the menu bar File --> Mpeg Tools

3) A new window will be displayed. Click on the last menu to the right (Merge & Cut).

4) Click on Add and select the mpeg video that you want to cut.

5) Select the video (which should now appear on the window in which you are currently working),and then click on Edit.

6) click on symbol { to the left in order to select the beginning of the video.

7) Bring the little arrow pointing downwards (which is the slider indicating the frame) in the middle of the middle of the timeline or wherever you would like to cut the video, and click on the symbol } to the right.

8) If you want to be extra cautios, write down which frame you have cut (look at the top, where it says Range to...).

9) Click OK.

10) At the bottom, where Output appears, click on Browse and choose a DIFFERENT name for the new file (e.g. namefile1 etc). Click on Run.

Within a few seconds, the first part will be ready.

11) For the second part, click again on Edit. If you haven't touched anything, click on the { symbol to the left so that you can start cutting from where you had left it (i.e. the frame following the one that you had cut previously). If you have accidentally moved it, go to the top and insert the value/number that you had wrote down when you made the first cut).

12) Bring the little arrow to the right, click on the symbol } to the right and then click OK.

13) Go to the bottom where the name of file to save appears, and again save it with a different name e.g. filename2. Click on Run. That's it.

Provided that the original video did not have any errors (or used inappropriate codec for the audio) you should have succesfully cut your video in two parts.

If on the other hand you would like to JOIN to bits of a video mpeg, then it is sufficient to keep clicking Add in this latter window and add them all up (you can also move them up or down to put them in the right order). Click on Run and you are finished. Of course this only works if you are trying to join the SAME video which has been cut into different parts. It does not work if you try to joing different videos.

If you want to download TMPGEnc, click here.

Enjoy!!!