Re: Cutting Videos...
By: Blue White to Nightfox on Thu May 09 2024 08:28 am

What do you mean by "episodes"? If they're TV shows, each episode
should already be a separate video when you rip it.

Not necessarily. I have at least one set ("One Step Beyond") where I can choose to play separate episodes if I have the CD loaded into a player but, when I went to rip the episodes they were all in one "container" so I did need a video editor to separate them.

They're on CD? Are they Video CDs? Interesting to hear of a show released that way, rather than on DVD or blu-ray. I'd heard of the Video CD format but have never seen anything officially released on Video CD where I am.

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Not necessarily. I have at least one set ("One Step Beyond")

where I can

choose to play separate episodes if I have the CD loaded into a

player

but, when I went to rip the episodes they were all in one

"container" so I

did need a video editor to separate them.

They're on CD? Are they Video CDs? Interesting to hear of a show
released that way, rather than on DVD or blu-ray. I'd heard of the
Video CD format but have never seen anything officially released on
Video CD where I am.

I am sorry. I was not thinking properly. The shows in question are on
*DVD*. ;)



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I've got a bunch of blu-rays that I've ripped and I'd like to turn
them into their respective episodes. What video editing tool would
be recommended?

Usually, handbrake (the rip software I use) will do that for me.
However, I have had a disc set or two where the video was stored as one "container" instead of separated by episodes (you could select episodes from the CD player menu, but the physical data was not separate).

For those, I use either OpenShot or Shotcut. Each has a slightly different user interface. Shotcut is the program I use to edit my own videos because it will allow me to save them in 1020p on the machine I have. OpenShot will also allow me to try, but my machine is not powerful enough to allow it to save above 720p. For most of the shows I have on DVD, they were from the pre-HD period (some are black and white!) so
being able to save in 1020p is not necessary, and is sometimes even not preferred.

I like them both so I would suggest trying them both and see which one
you like. I am using them on linux machines so the Windows versions
might differ.

This is ending up being too complicated. I was hoping there would actually
be a tool to do this with minimal hands-on stuff. Something where I would enter the number of episodes, or an estimated run-time for each episode and merely move the cutting points. Not having to do it from scratch for 25 episodes... This is too much of a hassle to bother with. I'll have to
torrent the episodes and not feel bad since I own them :(

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This is ending up being too complicated. I was hoping there would
actually
be a tool to do this with minimal hands-on stuff. Something where I
would
enter the number of episodes, or an estimated run-time for each
episode and
merely move the cutting points. Not having to do it from scratch for
25
episodes... This is too much of a hassle to bother with. I'll have
to
torrent the episodes and not feel bad since I own them :(

If the rip program couldn't determine where each episode started and
ended, there is not going to be another program that is likely to be able
to do so. It really isn't too difficult if you watch YT videos about
editing video using one of those programs. You can load the video and
then give it a time to go forward to (like the approx length of an
episode) to get you near the end of each one.



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* In a message originally to Shurato, Blue White said:

This is ending up being too complicated. I was hoping there would actually be a tool to do this with minimal hands-on stuff. Something where I would enter the number of episodes, or an estimated
run-time for each episode and merely move the cutting points.
Not having to do it from scratch for 25 episodes... This is too
much of a hassle to bother with. I'll have to torrent the episodes
and not feel bad since I own them :(

If the rip program couldn't determine where each episode started and
ended, there is not going to be another program that is likely to be able
to do so. It really isn't too difficult if you watch YT videos about editing video using one of those programs. You can load the video and
then give it a time to go forward to (like the approx length of an
episode) to get you near the end of each one.

Thank you. I have a commercial version of VideoProc and that had some really intuitive cutting features that I didn't know of previously. I was able to make short work of the episodes.

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Thank you. I have a commercial version of VideoProc and that had some really
intuitive cutting features that I didn't know of previously. I was
able to
make short work of the episodes.

Good deal! Glad you got it working.


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