Can't Trim Divx Files!

[NimChimpsky]

When I drag a DivX file to Toast's Video -> DivX Disc window and try to trim the start and end of the video by sliding the triangles at the bottom of the bar, it seems to work. But when I then Save as Disc Image ..., mount the image and open the "trimmed" DivX video, it's the same as the one I started with!

 

I'm trying to do this to a video I want to upload to the Internet. I managed to trim the video with another program (I think it was MPEG Streamclip) but the result is not, according to Toast, a DivX file!

 

I've tried this with several versions of Toast (8.0.3, 8.0.1 and probably 8.0 and 7.x as well), and the problem persists. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[tsantee]

When I drag a DivX file to Toast's Video -> DivX Disc window and try to trim the start and end of the video by sliding the triangles at the bottom of the bar, it seems to work. But when I then Save as Disc Image ..., mount the image and open the "trimmed" DivX video, it's the same as the one I started with!

 

I'm trying to do this to a video I want to upload to the Internet. I managed to trim the video with another program (I think it was MPEG Streamclip) but the result is not, according to Toast, a DivX file!

 

I've tried this with several versions of Toast (8.0.3, 8.0.1 and probably 8.0 and 7.x as well), and the problem persists. Am I doing something wrong?

I believe Toast will only trim DV and full quality QuickTime video. You'll need to do that trimming in MPEG Streamclip and then have Toast create a new DivX video file from that edited video.

[NimChimpsky]

Another free AVI Splitter is D-Vision > Tools > AVI Tools > Segment AVI file, which cuts on timecode, but has a visual mode too.

Thanks for the reminder. This is what I actually would up using, since it's a program I've used in the past, though for other tasks. Unfortunately, it's not very precise even when you check "precisely", so I wasted a lot of time until i got the cut where I wanted it.

I believe Toast will only trim DV and full quality QuickTime video. You'll need to do that trimming in MPEG Streamclip and then have Toast create a new DivX video file from that edited video.

You'd think that, after several updates, the Toast programmers would either have made that feature work with DivX files or have stopped fooling people into thinking it's working -- and wondering what they are doing wrong when they see the results!

 

As a mentioned in my original post, I actually had a trimmed version of the DivX file that I could have converted back into DIvX with Toast. But since Toast indicated that the DivX output would be a significantly longer than the input, I presumed (perhaps wrongly) that it would be totally re-encoded and therefore take a long time and lose quality.

 

 

[theoldarchiver]

Sveinbjorn Thordarson used to make his excellent freeware Explicit AVI Cutter available on the net, but all the links seem dead now.

Another free AVI Splitter is D-Vision > Tools > AVI Tools > Segment AVI file, which cuts on timecode, but has a visual mode too.