Use DGIndexNV for simple split / join?
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:43 pm
Hi,
Now that DGIndexNV has the 'Output Trimmed TS' functionality, I'm wondering if it's appropriate to use the tool for simple split & join operations ala VirtualDub.
This being kind of an oddball question, here's some background-
Before I got my HD video camera, life was as simple as my editing needs. Being a family / amateur videographer, all I'm really interested in at this level is capturing raw footage for use in later editing. But seeing as only 50% of the footage I take can justify it's existence, I used VirtualDub to simply trim MPEG2/AVI footage and archive the result for future use.
Now with my HD camera's AVCHD data format, that is no-longer an option, and I haven't found a good free/cheap tool to do the same. So at the time I just bought some bigger hard drives, shrugged, and kept everything I captured. A few years of this has really added up - I now have over 1 TB of captured footage and a killer backlog of trimming to do.
I don't want to transcode the footage, thats not an option - just trim the unwanted footage.
I was wondering if it's reasonable to try using Output Trimmed TS to save chunks of footage that I'd like to keep, use copy/b to glue them back together, then re-index the result.
I know this isn't the intended usage of the tool, and the last time I tried it (several months ago) there were seeking glitches.
I guess my question is, should I expect this technique to work? If not, can you or anyone suggest a tool that will meet my stone-age simple needs?
Thanks in advance
Now that DGIndexNV has the 'Output Trimmed TS' functionality, I'm wondering if it's appropriate to use the tool for simple split & join operations ala VirtualDub.
This being kind of an oddball question, here's some background-
Before I got my HD video camera, life was as simple as my editing needs. Being a family / amateur videographer, all I'm really interested in at this level is capturing raw footage for use in later editing. But seeing as only 50% of the footage I take can justify it's existence, I used VirtualDub to simply trim MPEG2/AVI footage and archive the result for future use.
Now with my HD camera's AVCHD data format, that is no-longer an option, and I haven't found a good free/cheap tool to do the same. So at the time I just bought some bigger hard drives, shrugged, and kept everything I captured. A few years of this has really added up - I now have over 1 TB of captured footage and a killer backlog of trimming to do.
I don't want to transcode the footage, thats not an option - just trim the unwanted footage.
I was wondering if it's reasonable to try using Output Trimmed TS to save chunks of footage that I'd like to keep, use copy/b to glue them back together, then re-index the result.
I know this isn't the intended usage of the tool, and the last time I tried it (several months ago) there were seeking glitches.
I guess my question is, should I expect this technique to work? If not, can you or anyone suggest a tool that will meet my stone-age simple needs?
Thanks in advance