How can I split an actual avi file?

1. Col
   Member

   

   Please help someone starting out with video. Having started to work with Panasonic AVCHD and check out video editing programmes, I've just tried to capture video from my old Sony TRV355 camcorder. I managed this successfully using Windows Live Move Maker in Windows 7 (I tried in PowerDirector but it stopped endlessly after every couple of seconds and I've had no response from their support). Whole tapes have produced avi files as large as 20GB and I want to split them before going on to edit and make movies/DVDs.  I've searched on-line and found AVS Video Remaker which explicitly says it supports avi files and looks like it should do what I want (a series of separate smaller files by subject) but it won't open my avi files. It says I need to encode/convert them I'm new to digital video but I've been reading things about losing quality from doing this (I'm familiar with the issue of resaving jpgs over and over). I'm also wary of just downloading other programmes that I haven't seen reviewed for safety reasons). Can anyone help? I have a lot of footage of my children that I want to edit (and archive before the tapes deteriorate). Many thanks.

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. david5566
   Member

   

   you can try this free program: VirtualDub. It can split your large AVI file into pieces  for editing, and this tutorial will tell you detail about how to do with it: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/cut_avi_with_virtualdub.cfm. It is really easy to finish.

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. Severe
   Member

   

   a good program for these needs is SplitMovie

   here is a guide:

   How to split avi video file

    

   Posted 2 years ago #

4. wbardo
   Member

   

    I used VideoCharge Studio for it. Usually, I split lange file by size or by time, it is very easy :-)

   Posted 2 years ago #

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