Software for deleting movie scenes

rohitshakti2

rohitshakti2

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Hi friends,

I have stored many movies in my PC. But some of these have adult / violent scenes which I want to delete so that my kids donot see them accidently.

Is there any software which can do so....

regards
Rohit
 
Yes, you can cut the part of the video without re-encoding it, therefore maintaining the quality. VirtualDub supports this feature.

I had previously written a nutshell tutorial on how to cut part of video without re-encoding.

Edit:-

Here is the short tutorial written by me previously :-

1. Open your video file in VirtualDub.

2. Play the video file and stop where you want to cut your video(Drag the position slider to your desired location).

3. Click Edit > Set selection start

4. Play your video to the part you want to remove.

5. Click Edit > Set selection End

6. Click Edit > Delete

7. Click Video > Direct stream copy and Audio > Direct stream copy.

9. Click File > Save as AVI

Done!
 
Googled a bit and got this info:-

Get these two:-

1) FLV InputDriver - It allows Virtualdub to open .flv files.

Place folder and file in the Plugins folder of Virtualdub's directory.

2) FFDshow - A DirectShow filter that allows you to encode and decompress various file formats.

Install it and then go to Start > All Programs > FFDshow > VFW configuration > Decoder tab > Codecs (on the top left) > Go down to FLV1 > Set the decoder to libavcodec > Then go to VP6F and set the decoder to libavcodec. Apply and click OK.

When all is done you are ready to open .flv files in VirtualDub.
 
I've used VDub with avi files and it is probably the most simplest out there. I think with the above mentioned codecs, you will be able to get the job done!
 
Using Virtual Dub or any other video editing software would be a bad idea....bcoz nearly every software will decode and re-encode the movie...Movie encoding/decoding is a very intensive process and it will take 2-3 hours for a normal full lenght movie to complete...

Think about this....a better idea would be to hide all these movies onto a TrueCrypt drive...

Like it or not, they're going to get exposed to adult content somewhere else...
 
techcraze said:
Using Virtual Dub or any other video editing software would be a bad idea....bcoz nearly every software will decode and re-encode the movie...Movie encoding/decoding is a very intensive process and it will take 2-3 hours for a normal full lenght movie to complete...

Think about this....a better idea would be to hide all these movies onto a TrueCrypt drive...
Like it or not, they're going to get exposed to adult content somewhere else...
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+1 to the above.
I use AVS Video converter to do the aforementioned stuff.It can handle almost any video format and output parameters can be fine-tuned individually to ur image quality and file size requirements.Editing is very easy in it but u hav to go for the encoding which is a tedious process.BTW what is the CPU u use?
If u have a Nvidia GPu u can also use TMPGenc which uses GPU accleration through CUDA to speed up the encoding process
 
techcraze said:
Using Virtual Dub or any other video editing software would be a bad idea....bcoz nearly every software will decode and re-encode the movie...Movie encoding/decoding is a very intensive process and it will take 2-3 hours for a normal full lenght movie to complete...
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Wrong. Follow the steps I posted in #2. Using that tutorial you can cut parts of a video without re-encoding it, therefore maintaining the quality. It nearly takes only 1-2 sec to remove the part and save it as a new file as there is no re-encoding.
 
techcraze said:
Using Virtual Dub or any other video editing software would be a bad idea....bcoz nearly every software will decode and re-encode the movie...Movie encoding/decoding is a very intensive process and it will take 2-3 hours for a normal full lenght movie to complete...

Think about this....a better idea would be to hide all these movies onto a TrueCrypt drive...

Like it or not, they're going to get exposed to adult content somewhere else...
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I really think you should research first before making off-hand comments.There is no re-encoding and the entire process of snipping would barely take 2-3 minutes.
XTechManiac said:
Wrong. Follow the steps I posted in #2. Using that tutorial you can cut parts of a video without re-encoding it, therefore maintaining the quality. It nearly takes only 1-2 sec to remove the part and save it as a new file as there is no re-encoding.
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+1
 
XTechManiac said:
Wrong. Follow the steps I posted in #2. Using that tutorial you can cut parts of a video without re-encoding it, therefore maintaining the quality. It nearly takes only 1-2 sec to remove the part and save it as a new file as there is no re-encoding.
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Sei said:
I really think you should research first before making off-hand comments.There is no re-encoding and the entire process of snipping would barely take 2-3 minutes.

+1
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Oops..my bad..im sorry
 
Wrong. Follow the steps I posted in #2. Using that tutorial you can cut parts of a video without re-encoding it, therefore maintaining the quality. It nearly takes only 1-2 sec to remove the part and save it as a new file as there is no re-encoding.
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As told earlier, Virtual dub is not able to play many video files / videos i hv.
 
Sigh. As I said, for .flv files follow my instructions at #4. For other formats just Google the codec name(which you get as error) and get the codec.

BTW, what video formats you are trying to snip?
 
Bumping an old thread because I need some info on another query.

Any chance I can crop the black bars on several videos (4 GB m2ts) via Virtuadub without having to go through re-encode?

Thanks
 
Satan said:
Bumping an old thread because I need some info on another query.

Any chance I can crop the black bars on several videos (4 GB m2ts) via Virtuadub without having to go through re-encode?

Thanks
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Nope its not possible... you have to encode the raw video which you have to do that...
 
Satan said:
Any chance I can crop the black bars on several videos (4 GB m2ts) via Virtuadub without having to go through re-encode?
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^^ Not possible AFAIK. You'll have to re-encode to crop the file.
Your best bet is to probably crop the black bars while watching it on VLC player, but again that doesn't crop the file.
 
Damn... sad that it can't be done that way.

The Black bars don't get in the way since really since the actual video is 2.35 : 1. Unfortunately the guy who encoded, did so with the black bars on top instead of cropping them. In addition to taking up some space in terms of filesize (i'm assuming it's minimal), it can also be detrimental on a Plasma; even more so than if the black bars were not part of the movie and the black being displayed on the screen was because of lack of any picture in that area.'

M2TS plays horribly on VLC. It's because of lack of any hardware acceleration. Is there a newer version that does better? What else do you guys use to watch M2TS if not VLC?

I've tried Media Player Classic - Home Edition and it plays M2TS the best so far.
 
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