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Thread Author: borasport	Replies: 7

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Sat 30 Nov 13 09:56

video editing - borasport

I've got some old home videos copied to dvd somewhere and I want to upload them to YouTube.
Before i do that want to chop them up into short clips - is there any Windows utility for this, if not does the room have any recommendations for free software.
It doesnt need do anything other than chop it uo

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Sat 30 Nov 13 10:06

video editing - Zero

You got the (free) windows movie maker on your machine?

Don't just chop them up and upload them, at the very least add fade in and out!

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Sat 30 Nov 13 11:00

video editing - borasport

That should do it, cheers Z

thats the rest of today taken care of then. Still after a cracking reunion and 6 pints of landlord last night, I dont feel up to anything active...

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Sat 30 Nov 13 16:10

video editing - borasport

Of course, nothing is ever that simple, is it ?

What is on the DVD is a copy of a 2 hour VHS video I shot back in 1988 converted to DVD on our Panasonic PVR- on the DVD they appear to have been broken down into 4 .VOB files. The section I want would appear from the thumbnails to span the third and 4th, but movieplayer keeps stamping a little yellow triangle on vob 4 and refusing to do anything useful with it.

dvd is currently in the PVR seeing to see if it will play through to the end, I can suffer watching an hour of autotests,stage rallying (Kankunnen at Lightwater valley) to see if it will play through the bits I want

Failing that, it could be stoke the boiler up under the old vhs recorder and see what happens when you try and play a 27 year old tape................

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Sat 30 Nov 13 16:48

video editing - smokie

Dunno if this might help but Handbrake was recommended here fro ripping DVDs and I've used it very successfully

handbrake.fr/

EDIT I'm thinking you could use that to put the VOB files into a more manageable format mp4 maybe)

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Sat 30 Nov 13 17:06

video editing - rtj70

Yes I'd recommend Handbrake. You can use it to convert the MPEG2 video held in the VOB files into MPEG4. And then mess around with cutting it up. MPEG4 takes up a lot less space than MPEG2 because of the improved compression methods.

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Sat 30 Nov 13 17:09

video editing - borasport

Right, will try that tomorrow - currently watching our 1989 day at Rally school - mkII escorts.....

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Sat 30 Nov 13 17:31

video editing - rtj70

If you can sacrifice a bit of quality, choosing the FFmpeg encoder for the video is faster than the x264 encoder. Lots of tweaking possible with both, especially x264 in advanced mode.

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