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How to edit several AVI (or mpeg) files joined together

Mon, Aug 14, 2006

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Previously we looked at how to join several AVI files together, and then how to burn them to a DVD.

Now, let’s suppose that you’ve put all seven episodes of Bloodspell together so far, but would like to remove the credits from in between each episode. First, let’s just say that the folks over at Bloodspell have worked hard on this, so let’s leave in at least one set of credits so they get the recognition they deserve.

Now, our tool. Avidemux - the handy dandy Linux tool for editing videos.

For a rough way to do this (and you can gain more finesse by both practice and reading the manuals) we’ll first want to install Avidemux.

sudo apt-get install avidemux

Then we’ll launch Avidemux pointing at our file. If you’ve strung your Bloodspell AVIs together and named them BloodSpell.avi, it will look like this:

avidemux BloodSpell.avi

Once you’re in avidemux, you’ll notice at the bottom there are two buttons, one marked “A” and the other “B”. These are for setting markers. Scroll throught the first episode until you reach the credits, and click the “A” button. Then scroll through the credits until the first frame of the next episode. Go back one frame and click the “B” button. Then go to the Edit menu and choose “Cut”.

Repeat as desired and save your file. It will take a bit to save it but you should have a playable (and burnable) file in the end.

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7 Comments For This Post

  1. Jennifer Says:
    November 26th, 2006 at 6:17 pm

    What if I have different mpegs for different episodes of a season of a show that aren’t streamlined into one file? how would I burn them to a blank dvd so I can watch them on a dvd player, rather than just backing them up on a blank dvd?

  2. arsgeek Says:
    November 27th, 2006 at 8:54 am

    Hey Jennifer. First, look here to see how to string video files together:

    http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=435

    Then look here for a way to burn them to a DVD for viewing:

    http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=439

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  5. Arkapravo Says:
    May 27th, 2010 at 4:52 am

    Nice ! …..

  6. Trent Says:
    July 1st, 2010 at 2:46 am

    Thank you for your advice, I’ll try using Avidemux, I hope it will work with me also.

  7. L4NiK Says:
    July 9th, 2010 at 8:44 am

    tnx) note)

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