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The DIRECT STREAM COPY option works great!  I've been looking fotr this answer for awhile thx!

-reply by THANK YOU!

just go for vcd cutter it is a simple software
you just need to mention the parts which you need to cut and the software will cut the thing for you

did you find a way to split video?Splitting A Long Video Into Small Pieces For Youtube.

I am also looking to learn how to split a large movie into small ones.  I have videos that are a few gigs and I want to split them into 100 mb or less segments to be able to load online.  Pinnacle Studio cant do this (according to their customer support).  I am looking for an automated way to do it.  any ideas?

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Sorry for the delay!
Actually, one of my band members somehow managed this, but this is still interesting to me. I tried using the direct stream copy thing in VirtualDub[Mod] but the thing is, the movie is in MPEG2, and VDM exports back into AVI, which can't handle the MPEG2 stream. Is there any other option?

VirtualDub could obviously load the file, and could do what I wanted it to do, but it took a bit of tinkering, and in the end when I wanted to export the different sections he wanted to re-encode them

re-coding is simply the default value, you simply have to change it.
Go to "video" in Virtualdub, and choose "direct copy". Then go to "Audio" and choose "direct copy".

And then VirtualDub will split the movie without re-compressing it, it goes very fast.

Also, look if there are keyframes in your movie, don't split in a random place, there is an option "go to the next keyframe" in order to choose the beginning or the end of the splitted part.

You can try Chop, a program that 'chops' a file into a few parts for sharing. You can even encypt the 'chopped' files! It is available at: http://www.sinnercom...ng.com/Chop.htm

This is hardly what I needed...
Not only does it require a monetary investment, it is not specialized for movies and cannot cut a video at a certain frame. Thanks for trying though!

I don't really have any advice if Movie Maker's not cutting it, but I'm still interested in seeing the video! Keep us posted.

Well, I'm glad you're showing interest. I think you'll enjoy it! Me and my two co-members are working right now on trying to split this video and post it to YouTube, and I might open a thread about it the moment we manage this task.

Problem is that not many none-professional editing tools will read Mpeg-2 (DVD) format. In fact that takes a $20 plug-in even with Quick time Pro. Your best bet is to load it into a player and then export the files in some other format (like Quicktime Mov) where more editors will be able to read and make changes to the file.

Exporting it to AVI (which is a pretty standard format) is no problem... even VirtualDub can manage it! But I haven't yet found a program to cut any type of file this big! Do you have any program which can split a video of any type? I will manage to convert it if needed, believe me. I think the greatest limitation here is the cost of the software (preferably none).

you can split videos with any video editing software.
I have used some of them. Ulead videostudio is one. Moviedv is anotherone I have used.
And Pinnacle is also a good software.
These are not just video editing software but they have a lot more in it.
Free trials are available for these.

The drummer of my band tried to do the task before us with Pinnacle and said it was just too sluggish to work with. Besides, I'm not basing this on any specific experience with any of these programs, but I'm guessing that trial editions will not be able to export more than a limited number of minutes, and will probably have some features disabled. In the worst case it will feature watermarks, which is definitely not good for what we're trying to do.

Thanks for all the help and the interest so far, but we've yet to come to a conclusion!!

you can split videos with any video editing software.
I have used some of them. Ulead videostudio is one. Moviedv is anotherone I have used.
And Pinnacle is also a good software.
These are not just video editing software but they have a lot more in it.
Free trials are available for these.

Problem is that not many none-professional editing tools will read Mpeg-2 (DVD) format. In fact that takes a $20 plug-in even with Quick time Pro. Your best bet is to load it into a player and then export the files in some other format (like Quicktime Mov) where more editors will be able to read and make changes to the file.

I don't really have any advice if Movie Maker's not cutting it, but I'm still interested in seeing the video! Keep us posted.