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I'm trying to save space on my hard drive, and I was hoping one way to do it would be to cut out all of th eparts of video files that I don't like (like an episode fo a TV show I only watch one segment of). Is there a free prgram that enables me to do this?

. . . why not simply burn the episodes to cd rom instead?

My burner's broke.

If you have XP, Windows Movie Maker should be able to edit files like you want. Just be prepared to wait a long ass time for the edited file to recompile. And make sure you uncheck the "Make clips of this file" option when you open it.

I have a problem: I want to chop the intro segment out of piles of eps I have but editing software (like VirtualDub) doesn't grab at the frame I select and I get up to a second either way. Problem?

Stark wrote:I have a problem: I want to chop the intro segment out of piles of eps I have but editing software (like VirtualDub) doesn't grab at the frame I select and I get up to a second either way. Problem?

Virtualdub can easily grab at a specific frame. The only reason you might run into that problem is if you are using compressed video and the "direct stream copy" option instead of full processing and re-compression.

If you try to work directly with compressed video, VirtualDub has no choice but to start its cut at the nearest keyframe. It can't pick up a delta-frame and just start from there, for obvious reasons.