Clipping and Merging movie segments

[Zipper]

I have downloaded a number of home movie Videos to a dedicated external hard drive as MPEG-2 movies. If I merely want to burn them directly onto a DVD; no problem. If I want to remove the "junk" from various segments ( like where I forgot to turn it off and taped 5 minutes of floor ) and the marry them back into a continuous strip, I haven't a clue. I can stop a segment at the correct place, but cannot skip over the part I don't want, to resume with the next "good part" of the movie. The only way I can see to do it, is to save each isolated segment as 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 and so on, then recombine them as a whole bunch of "little" movies, but that's a whole lot of work. Surely there has to be something simple that I'm overlooking.

 

Please help if you are skilled in this.

 

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[james_hardin]

This is just what VideoWave is made for. Add a file or files to VW and edit away until you are happy.

 

Don't think in the limited terms of each file. You can combine them in VW, edit out the parts you don't want, put transitions between each clip, etc.

 

You can burn directly from there or save the Project and go into MyDVD to make the menu interface and when you select Add New Title, pick the VW Project (.dmsm) file you saved.

 

One of the neat features in editors like VW is that your original clips are never altered in any way! The VW Project file is just a set of 'notes' remembering what you want them to look like.

 

Look in the V9 Tips and Tricks for some basic editing tricks. There are some differences between versions, but the basic steps are the same.