who uses Boilsoft Video Splitter?
 

anybody? i'm trying to cut some video clips with exact start and end point times - the software lets you do this, down to the thousandth of a second but the results don't match up with the start and end times I input - the saved clip starts a fair bit before the start time.

If you're just cutting and not re-encoding this is the best you'll do. The cutter has to trim to the nearest keyframe. Keyframes can be every second or so to every 5-10 seconds, all depends on your encoder settings.

If you want exact trims you have to re-encode. If they're something like WMVs as long as the re-encoding parameters are exactly the same as the originals the quality will not suffer much.

I've used it quite a lot. I make sure the video I use on it has a keyframe every second.

havnet had any issues with it, but i switched to ultra video splitter instead, supports more formats

If not need encoding, just split to several clips, this one is good, otherwise, my advice is Allok Video Splitter.

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Unless you have the raws (which i take it that you do), in which case just do it through FCP.
Render, encode done...

Hi Loch, how are you these days?
So nice see you here again, and I were carried away by your fine words. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I'm afraid I have to leave discountencoding.com soon btw
please say good luck to me buddy :)

Jarvis

its not free but video charge will do the trick.

encode, clip, and capture screen images all in a batch. I've done batches of 50+.

thanks for the feedback - don't want to re-encode and lose quality - i cut them in Boilsoft and i gave them to an editor who will trim them in whatever video editing software he uses.

I've used Boilsoft Video Splitter to build hundreds of FHG's, and overall it's quite a good program but not always as accurate as I would prefer

I know what you mean. They have changed it. Kinda sucks now.

When you start the video spiltter the video is running in the preview screen. Select the start and the end of the scene and then stop the running video before you click on the "Split"-button! This works for me!

Your editor will HAVE to re-encode if you want the trims at spots that aren't at already existing keyframes. There is no way around this.

But, if he/she knows what they're doing, and depending on the source format, any re-encoding should continue to look very close to the original. For WMV encodings, for example, the encoder will do a stream copy when it can, creating new keyframes only when necessary. This results in virtually no generational loss because the encoder is simply moving already-compressed frames from input to output.

For this to work the encoding settings must be identical. A good editor will have the tools to reconstruct the encoding profile from the finished work, but it doesn't hurt if you can provide the settings used to make the originals, if you have them.

As Loch says, if you have the masters, you can always re-encode from them, but that's also the most time consuming.