Trim .avi

dai · Post by **dai** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:01 pm

Hi, little overwelming with features of my Ulead 9.
Can I just edit .avi and then save it as .avi ?
Right now all go to project .vsp.

Tx
Dai

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:11 pm

Yes, it is possible. But you are confusing terms a little. If you simply use the command 'save', it will indeed only save the Video Studio Project (VSP) file. If you want to have your completed AVI project, with all editing done, be 'saved' as an AVI, you must instead go to Share > Create Video File > AVI.

Be careful, though, because I suspect you may have DV/AVI files (if you captured from a digital mini DV video camera). In that case, you choose Share > Create Video File > DV. Otherwise, if you choose 'AVI', it will produce an uncompressed AVI file which will be huge (65GB per hour). A DV/AVI file, on the other hand, is slightly compressed and will take about 13 GB per hour.

dai · Post by **dai** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:05 pm

Thanks a lot, Ken
for info, now I'm getting it.
I have 30 min .avi 715Mb (not from DV) and want to edit it but don't go over its original size.

Anybody can recommend any other editor ?

Victor

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:16 pm

OK -- but with a file that size, it is neither a DV nor uncompressed AVI file -- a half hour DV file would be over 6 GB in size, and an uncompressed AVI would be over 30 GB. So I am guessing that in fact you have an mpeg-4 or DivX or XVid file which uses 'AVI' merely as a wrapper format. Can you right click on the file in the timeline and copying down its properties here, please.

If you are wanting to output exactly the same format of AVI with VS 9, then you will need the optional mpeg-4 plug-in which was a free download for registered users of the program. And when you go to Share > Create Video File > AVI, you would further have to choose one of the mpeg-4 codecs.