chopping video in os x

[Gerco]

Best way to chop up video into various sized clips on a MAC Os X? Can any do it without the re encoding process? Basically doing a pass though?

[Dvae]

Can I assume you have already tried Slush?

http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?t=...ighlight=slush

[Freeway]

I don't know if its the best way, but it came to me off the top of my head. I know quicktime pro can chop up clips ( in a manual kind of way ). If you have a 60 min movie you would select an in/out point and click copy. Then open up a blank movie and click paste. Then save. No re-encoding. Rinse, repeat.

[hypedough]

Originally Posted by Freeway

I don't know if its the best way, but it came to me off the top of my head. I know quicktime pro can chop up clips ( in a manual kind of way ). If you have a 60 min movie you would select an in/out point and click copy. Then open up a blank movie and click paste. Then save. No re-encoding. Rinse, repeat.

True, that's a quick and simple way. I just went to download the beta of Slush I had and it said it was expired. If anyone here can help please do so, I just emailed them back right now

[BobG]

I haven't found one either. Still using VideoCharge on a pc which works great.

[donkevlar]

I use MPEG Streamclip

Free + easy.

http://www.squared5.com/

[munki]

Originally Posted by BobG

I haven't found one either. Still using VideoCharge on a pc which works great.

[Godsmack]

Originally Posted by Dvae

Can I assume you have already tried Slush?

http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?t=...ighlight=slush

I think Slush is to crop thumbs from clips.. not a tool to shop vids into pieces..

[natas]

Originally Posted by BobG

I haven't found one either. Still using VideoCharge on a pc which works great.

+1 I love videocharge

[Brad Gosse]

qtcoffee does this and it's free ;)

[Gerco]

Originally Posted by Brad Gosse

qtcoffee does this and it's free ;)

Let me see if I understand how this would work.

Basically I would take my RAW Minidv footage into FCP and place chapters into it and reexport, then run this command line tool to break up that by the chapters?

[Gerco]

Originally Posted by donkevlar

I use MPEG Streamclip

Free + easy.

http://www.squared5.com/

BINGO! we have a winner!

This is exactly what I was looking for, and talk about easy. I have been looking for a way to keep all my video on Hard Drive but I don't need it in Raw DV, since the final video will only ever be used for the web.

Yesterday I was playing around with different ways I could encode the Raw footage using Episode pro. I started with a baseline of 1600k and did encodes for H.264, MP4, Mpeg1 etc. In doing this I discovered that while the resulting files looked great, opening them up in an editor and trying to do anything with them after the fact was painful.

I only want to be able to take a 60 minute live camshow footage and chop it up via what was done in that show then using a watch folder in Episode have it add the intro outro and watermark and convert it to the final H.264 video I'll upload to the site.

This "Streamclip" allows me to do exactly that and very quickly. Not only can I open and edit the original raw footage if I like, but I can open and chop up the MPG1 footage, basically set the in and out hit "command s" Name clip and Enter, move in and out and repeat. It saves the resulting clip passthrough, no re-encoding... SWEET!

Thanks for pointing the program out tome. I had actually used it before to view a video but had never thought about it to chop one up.

[gleem]

I'm still stuck on my PC for video editing cause somehow I ended up going with WMV as all my source files, and flip4mac or not, still fastest best way to process wmv's is on a pc (I hate Pc's)!

[Gerco]

Originally Posted by gleem

I'm still stuck on my PC for video editing cause somehow I ended up going with WMV as all my source files, and flip4mac or not, still fastest best way to process wmv's is on a pc (I hate Pc's)!

gotta say, for the actual processing telestreams episode pro is pretty nice. Its fast and handles just about anything I can think to throw at it, including wmv.