Cutting with Cuttermaran




Software informations

Cuttermaran is a freeware able to do advanced mpeg file cutting operation. It include very convinient user interface.
Home page : http://www.cuttermaran.de/

Purpose

We will use it to remove parts of our mpeg file to keep only relevant portions and suppress the unwanted.
Input and output files names can different or identical (overwrite) depending on your choice. If you have space, it could be nice to keep original version and then avoid overwriting.

Instructions

Open "Cuttermaran", then open the video stream file (VTS_01_1.m2v). Cuttermaran will automatically open the associated audio stream file (VTS_01_1.80.ac3).

step1

This operation is a little bit long because the program scan the files before opening them.
Once streams are loaded, jump to the first location which is the beginning of the first part to keep :


step2

Cuttermaran has a great research panel with thumbnails that is very useful to find quickly the desired part.You can watch next thumbnails series by clicking on arrow buttons at bottom.
Double Click on the desired thumbnail to jump to this location :


step3


You can fine adjust the location with [I<] and [I>] buttons. Once location is right, store this position as starting mark :


step4


Repeat these steps again to find the end location, then store it as ending mark.
Once you have both starting and ending marks available, you can store this interval :


step5

These steps can be repeated as many time as you have video portions to select. At the end the list of portions to keep is displayed at the bottom of the window. At the very bottom, there is also some useful informations about the resulting video, especially the number of frames. It can be used to know the boundary when creating a periodic chapters list.
To validate your choice and start the cutting process, click on the button as below :


step6




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