Burning Selected Portion Of A Video

[transini]

I'm trying to burn the first n minutes of a MPEG-4 file I have. I drag the MPEG-4 file into Toast 9, then click on the EDIT button, then the Video tab. There I use start and stop (triangle) sliders to bracket the region I want to burn. Looks good!

 

The problem is that no matter how I set those sliders, it burns the entire thing anyway! The video bracketing is completely ignored!

 

Am I doing this wrong, or is this a known bug??

Thx

 

 

[transini]

Wow, I didn't know about that feature! I'll try it out. Currently I have to convert the VOB file into a MP4 and then edit it and reimport it into Toast, which is quite a pain and very time consuming. If I can select chapters from the VOB files to include in Toast directly, that will make everything so much easier.

 

Thx!

Yep, this "Video TS folder on the desktop" feature works absolutely perfect! I had no idea Toast had such a feature. Sure beats hacking and slashing video when you can just choose the chapters you want.

 

Thx!

 

 

[tsantee]

I just tested this with a DivX file and the trim worked as it should. The section that becomes highlighted when sliding the markers is the section that is omitted. After closing the edit window the remaining time of your source video is displayed in the third line of the menu description.

 

How does Toast describe the video specs on your MPEG-4 file?

[transini]

I just tested this with a DivX file and the trim worked as it should. The section that becomes highlighted when sliding the markers is the section that is omitted. After closing the edit window the remaining time of your source video is displayed in the third line of the menu description.

 

How does Toast describe the video specs on your MPEG-4 file?

 

Yes I see what you describe. It looks like it should just pay attention to the highlighted portion of the scrubber bar. I can save, re-open, and it is still selected the way I want. It's just ignored when I burn it.

 

The video specs on the MPEG-4 snippet are:

Video: H.264/AVC, 640 x 480, 29.97 fps

Audio: MPEG-4 Audio, Stereo, 44100 Hz

 

BTW, why doesn't it allow selecting a portion of a .VOB file?

Thx

 

 

[tsantee]

Yes I see what you describe. It looks like it should just pay attention to the highlighted portion of the scrubber bar. I can save, re-open, and it is still selected the way I want. It's just ignored when I burn it.

 

The video specs on the MPEG-4 snippet are:

Video: H.264/AVC, 640 x 480, 29.97 fps

Audio: MPEG-4 Audio, Stereo, 44100 Hz

 

BTW, why doesn't it allow selecting a portion of a .VOB file?

Thx

Do you want me to test with a video that matches those specs?

 

VOBs are in MPEG 2 format and that is difficult to edit. Toast does MPEG 2 editing of TiVo files using the Toast Video Player but I haven't had any luck using it with something other than TiVo files. The easiest application for trimming VOBs is MPEG Streamclip. However there is a way to extract individual chapters from the contents of VIDEO_TS folders using Toast. Place the VIDEO_TS folder on the desktop. Choose DVD with the top button of the Toast Media Browser. When something appears in the browser window use the button below the DVD button to access the individual titles. The browser will show each chapter in that title which you can extract by dragging to the Video window with DVD video selected as the format.

[transini]

However there is a way to extract individual chapters from the contents of VIDEO_TS folders using Toast. Place the VIDEO_TS folder on the desktop. Choose DVD with the top button of the Toast Media Browser. When something appears in the browser window use the button below the DVD button to access the individual titles. The browser will show each chapter in that title which you can extract by dragging to the Video window with DVD video selected as the format.

Wow, I didn't know about that feature! I'll try it out. Currently I have to convert the VOB file into a MP4 and then edit it and reimport it into Toast, which is quite a pain and very time consuming. If I can select chapters from the VOB files to include in Toast directly, that will make everything so much easier.

 

Thx!