Posted on 11/13/2012 9:12:52 AM PST by Former Fetus
My daughter had to have herself videotaped for a college assignment and now the professor wants her to email to him the video. But, at 45 min long, it is too long to email. She asked me last night if I knew of an easy way to cut the video in 2 or 3 segments.
I've been reading all morning and fixounet.free.fr/avidemux keeps popping up in google. Has anybody in this board have experience using this program? How complicated is it to use? Do you have any other recommendations?
As usual TIA. FReepers are the best!
once you zip it, you can turn it into a .piz file...
then when downloaded, change the executable back to .zip, and there you are!!!!
Please get Windows 7. Vista is a piece of...
Do you have VLC?
VLC can be used to divide the video up. Just record it in sections of whatever length you want.
If it is on VHS videotape then make a copy and mail the copy to the prof. Easy. Who can't come up with an extra VCR and an RCA cable?
Your daughter's professor wants your daughter to provide a 45 minute video of herself?
I find that a little bit disconcerting considering the number of students in her class who probably have to provide the same video. Where is he going to find the time to view them all????? And what is he going to do with them when he's done watching them?
Download the trial version of Videopad by NCH Software.
Try it out for free. Don’t let the user interface intimidate you. Take the time to play with it first. It’s not that hard once you get the hang of it. Spend a few hours with it. Don;t take more than three days from the time it was installed because it’s just a trial version and will expire in a few days.
http://www.nchsoftware.com/software/video.html
Once it is installed, she should be able open and add(original 45 minute video) for splitting it into three 15 minute segments by using the in/out and functions of the editor. When she has each segment separated (one at a time) from the original 45 minute segment, she should do a “save as” for each segment, giving them each a relevant name such as “Classvid Part 1”, “Classvid Part 2” and “Classvid Part 3”...so that she ends up with three new segments of 15 minutes each while retaining the original 45 minute video with its original file name.
Upload the video to youtube with privacy setting private or unlisted and email the link.
It is already finished. She just wants a way to transfer the video.
Use Handbrake or another good video shrinker/chopper like ojosoft.
If it is very long (sound like it is) then she should burn it to a DVD and ship the prof the disk. Unless she doesn’t have a DVD burner.
If it is few hundred Mb, then it could go via Dropbox, but the load time could run into hours. I would do it overnight.
Free Video Converter by freemake.com is very easy to use to cut or crop video files. It also converts to numerous formats. The resulting files are pretty good quality that the user can adjust.
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/
If you have the digitized file, you can do it with Windows Movie Maker, which you may already have.
On the left pane, select Import Video and find your file.
Once it is imported, drag the clip down to the timeline.
Move your cursor to where you want the first segment to end (15:00). Click on the timeline to get a vertical blue line through the clip. From the clip menu, choose “Split”.
You now have two clips.
Move to the beginning of the third segmment (30:00) and repeat. You now have three clips.
Put your cursor on the second two segments and delete them. You now have the first 15 minutes isolated.
In the left pane, select “Save to my computer”. Select the options you want and hit SAVE.
Now, hit UNDO until all three of your clips reappear.
Delete the first and third clips, SLIDE the second clip back to 00:00:00 (grab with your mouse and drag), save to the computer, hit UNDO to bring them back. Delete the first and second clips, slide the third clip back to 00:00:00, hit SAVE to your computer. If you don’t slide the clips to 00:00:00 on the timeline, there will be blank space at the beginning of your video.
That should do it.
That was my first thought. Or how about loading the file on a flash drive? Allow the prof to download the file to his computer and give the flash drive back. They are fairly cheap anyway but no reason he couldn't return it.
Use YouSendIt.com send a large file. It ftps the file to a server and send a link for download to the teacher.
ScreenCast.com also works by hosting and playing the video and providing a download for the teacher.
Download Handbrake here: http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php Use it to compress the video. Note that this isn’t zip or something like that. The video will still play using the same player, and it will look almost completely the same, but it will be a LOT smaller.
What is VLC? Thanks
VLC is a popular free program for viewing and editing videos.
Thought it might be at hand, but never mind.
Buy a flash drive with enough size to hold the video. They are cheap these days.
That’s a good idea. Flashdrives can be cheap and fast and not everyone has a DVD burner.
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