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How best to clip and save an MPEG2 (TiVo) file

Discussion in 'HDTV discussion' started by jbsjbs, Aug 22, 2008.

  1. jbsjbs

    jbsjbs Member

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    I've searched the forums but not found something that works yet. I have an hour-long HD TiVo recording that I've downloaded using TivoToGo. It's about 5 GB and I want to share a 3 minute clip with someone.

    What would folks recommend as the easiest way to clip and save that 3 minutes segment. I tried using VirtualDub with the MPEG2 Plugin but after clipping and trying to save to AVI it was coming out to be a massive file. I'm an absolute VirtualDub novice, so it could be there's a much better way of doing it in that program.

    So can someone either recommend a good sequence of actions to take in VirtualDub, or else perhaps another program that will effectively clip or edit MPEG2 files?

    Thanks!
     
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    If you are using VirtualDub to save as AVI, are you selecting a compressor (Video => Full Processing Mode => Compression, then select one of the installed codecs - XviD or DivX if available).
    Full Processing is the default setting and if you don't choose a codec, you get uncompressed (huge files).
     

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