Looking for Software That will Quickly Split AVI and MTS files into Shorter Segments w/o Rendering
I have a paid website on Zenfolio that I use to host and backup my extensive library of personal photos (and now videos). I have been using this site for many years for my photos, but recently started to upload my videos. The challenge is that for the plan I use Zenfolio imposes a limit on videos of 20 minutes in length. I have 50+ videos that are longer than this limit. Many of these are in AVI or MTS formats.
I have multiple s/w options for my Windows 7 74 bit PC that I can use to split the videos into shorter segments. These include iWisoft Free Video Converter, Handbrake, Cyberlink Power Director 10, and Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12. These apps also let me change the format to mp4, for instance. I also have Windows Movie Maker 2012 - but have very limited experience using it.
The problem is that when I go to rip the shorter clips these s/w apps re-render the video. This ends up taking a long time - often an hour or more for one 20 minute clip. I am looking for advice on a quicker, easier solution.
Ideally, there would be s/w out there that lets me load a one hour AVI file. I would then select two places to split the file into three AVI segments that are just under 20 minutes each. The software would create the three segments w/o re-rendering the video. The output would be File_1.avi, File_2.avi and File_3.avi. Hopefully all three files would be created in 10 minutes or less, as opposed to hours.
Does anyone have any suggestions for this? I would prefer a free video that simply splits the files while maintaining the same format. If the only solution is to buy another package, that would work as well (assuming we are not talking about a $300+ outlay)
If there is a freeware/shareware option, I would like to know a safe place to download it where I will not be getting any bloatware or worse installed on my PC.
Thank you and Happy new Years!
I have multiple s/w options for my Windows 7 74 bit PC that I can use to split the videos into shorter segments. These include iWisoft Free Video Converter, Handbrake, Cyberlink Power Director 10, and Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12. These apps also let me change the format to mp4, for instance. I also have Windows Movie Maker 2012 - but have very limited experience using it.
The problem is that when I go to rip the shorter clips these s/w apps re-render the video. This ends up taking a long time - often an hour or more for one 20 minute clip. I am looking for advice on a quicker, easier solution.
Ideally, there would be s/w out there that lets me load a one hour AVI file. I would then select two places to split the file into three AVI segments that are just under 20 minutes each. The software would create the three segments w/o re-rendering the video. The output would be File_1.avi, File_2.avi and File_3.avi. Hopefully all three files would be created in 10 minutes or less, as opposed to hours.
Does anyone have any suggestions for this? I would prefer a free video that simply splits the files while maintaining the same format. If the only solution is to buy another package, that would work as well (assuming we are not talking about a $300+ outlay)
If there is a freeware/shareware option, I would like to know a safe place to download it where I will not be getting any bloatware or worse installed on my PC.
Thank you and Happy new Years!
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Thankyou Mrchip2
it's really good you found one perfect for what you needed.
All the best
Merete
it's really good you found one perfect for what you needed.
All the best
Merete
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The current task is to upload 12 video segments, each 1.8GB in size, to my Zenfolio account. Looks like the upload will take about 2 hours, 10 minutes. This is with up to 5 videos uploading at once. I have pretty good upload speeds on my internet. If memory serves I am around 20 MBit up / 75 MBit down. I think I will next do some searching to see if there are faster solutions for large files on Zenfolio. They do have a one file at a time uploader for videos I will try...