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Trimming your movie to fit on a disk.
If your source file is bigger than the medium will hold
it must be trimmed. There are many tools available on the internet
designed to split or trim movies. In the most shameless and self serving
manner, the tool that we have
used for this tutorial is our own Fx Movie Splitter. In this lesson we
will trim the rating screen and credits from a commercially produced
movie trailer leaving only the action segments and save it to an MPEG-2
format with DVD extensions.
The original source movie was the Ocean's Twelve trailer in DivX
format but we converted it to MPEG-1 by saving all frames in order to
make it smaller for this tutorial and available to those who may not
have the DivX codec installed.
You can download it by right clicking on the link below and selecting
Save target as... from the popup menu.
OceansTwelve.mpg
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To set the first frame of our new movie we started by using the
Output Range by Percent option until the green film rating box was
no longer visible.
By using the Output Range by Frame option, we navigated
forward until the first frame of the Warner Brothers' logo.
Using the same process to set the ending frame we used the Output
Range by Percent option to get close to the frame we wanted, then we
switched to Output Range by Frame to locate the exact frame.
Because we want to burn this to a DVD that can be played back on a
home DVD player we will use the DVD presets.
 The width and height ratio
for DVD is 720 X 480.
We saved to the original
folder using the original file name with _DVD appended to the name.
 
Selecting Preview during the save slows down the process time but
watching the progress bar is boring. Even with 25% chopped off the
beginning and end of the source, our converted file is larger on disk
because of the MPEG-2 resolution.
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