[Steve Juneau]

Baha I suck, I know. Anyway.

Say I have a full XviD film. But I only want one particular scene of that film, and I would like to extract it in the same perfect XviD quality. How would I do that? I've used Windows Movie Maker (which is shit), and Ultra Video Splitter (which is ok for small insignificant projects since the picture is pretty rubbish).

Now I've had a little look around Doom9, and apparantly I want VirualDub. That's all well and good, but the guide on that site pretty rubbish really! Anyone fancy pointing me in the direction of a good guide or just giving me a quick rundown? Thaaaaaaanks

[basketofkittens]

VirtualDub is definitely what you want to be using for this. Extracting a scene is dead fucking easy. Here's a quick run-down:

Open the movie in virtual dub. Look at the Video and Audio menus and make sure 'Direct Stream Copy' is selected in both of them. Drag the slider to wherever you want to start extracting from and click 'Set Selection Start' in the Edit menu. Navigate to where you want to stop extracting and choose 'Set Selection End' from the Edit menu. Now you should have an interval selected on the progress bar. Click File and select 'Save as AVI'. Choose destination/filename, and you're done! Easy, peasy, japanesey.

[Steve Juneau]

Kiss me, I love you. Thankyou! Can't believe how quick it went, I was so used to waiting about an hour to extract a 30min scene. Yes I have a crap processor Anyway, thanks again!

Quick edit - So, I've perfected the splitting side, how about the joining? Can Virtual Dub do that too? Same specs, XviD files saved into one bigger XviD file.

[Wedge_]

As long as the files you want to join have identical bitrates/framerates etc, it should join them without any trouble. Start VD, open the first file you want to join, then select File->Append AVI segment, select the next file, and repeat until you've got them all (if you name them file01.avi, file02.avi, file03.avi it should load them all automatically). Then just make sure you've got "Direct stream copy" selected under the Video menu (so it doesn't try to reencode anything), and select File->Save as AVI to save the joined file.

[Steve Juneau]

Yeah I got this when I tried Any ideas how to get around it? Both halves are from the original film so I don't understand how they're different.