I'm running into a problem with this video of mine. Took the vid with a Pana mini dvd camcorder, top quality. The vid is about 1gb and I haven't been able to put it on a dvd yet. I get this problem alot, when Im trying to edit it, the program Im using says my video is like 11 or 12 minutes long, when its actually like 18 or 19 minutes long. Why is this? Also, Im using this program now to easily split my video into sections so it'll be smaller files and less to work with. I input my video, it displays 17 seconds for the length. so I let it play my video from the begining, when the timeline marker gets to the end (17 second mark) the video stops.... but when i CLICK on the time line, it'll show me that POINT in my actual video. Very hard to explain, but Im trying to figure out why the length of my video is NEVER correct when imported into any program I use. It causes problems when editing.
Let me be the first to refer you to videohelp.com - if you can't find the answer to your problem there, it is unanswerable!
second this. How long is the original source video? why bother splitting it at all? as a matter of course, I never split my source material....it only introduces more steps that could allow problems to crop up. In my experience, alot of those freeware progs for messing with videos arent worth the time it took for the coders to write them. very rarely do I find one that doesnt introduce more problems than they solve.
research frame and sample rates just so you will be aware in the future. sounds like you have the program set for a different frame rate than what the source material may be. cheers, Brock
Original video is about 17-18 minutes. I wanted to split it maybe to put it on youtube or something in different segments. This was a VRO file from the getgo, and I have the original VRO and I have one that I renamed to a MPEG. They both playback fine, but I havent found ONE dvd making program that will allow me to copy it to a DVD without any audio/video malfunction in sycronizing. So tomorrow Im going to RadioShack and get a VGA- composite cable so I can hook it through my dvd recorder and just do it that way.
