

Open the program, and use the default settings except for 'audio format'. Unzip files to their own folder, and run the.
#HOW TO USE CYBERLINK POWERDIRECTOR 14 TO SPLIT A VIDEO INSTALL#
X.264 VFW codec: x264 VFW Codec 2273 - Downloadsĭownload and install (very small codec program - needed to allow Virtualdub to 'read' your AVCHD files) Still might depend on the format of your video though?.Īs you can see from Anders B post, it is possible to do it with commercial editing software as well, but if you want to do it for free, then you can using the following programs. OK, so it's not as accurate, but for this purpose, you don't really care! Unless someone knows of a way of decimating long GOP format video natively of course?.ĮDIT: I just tried to decimate an AVCHD file without re-encoding it to an intraframe format, and it does actually work! If your source is HD, then even more! So you'd need to do it in 'bite size' chunks, I suspect!Īll guess work until we know what format your video is in.

If you are using DV you will be dealing with something like 13GB per hour - so over 100GB of video data to start with! The problem will be the working file sizes.

So if you have 8 hours of video you want to cut down to 10 minutes, you would need to set the decimation to 48, so that you kept only one frame in every 48 of the original video. With an intraframe format, you can simply use the free program Virtualdub, and use frame rate 'decimation' set to what figure you decide. Not so easy if you have a compressed format like the AVCHD high definition format. This kind of thing is very easy if you have an 'intraframe' video format like DV.
