[kyles_mac]

I'm sure there may be some thread in here about .avi editing. Here is the thing:

Recently, I have been making movies, along with downloading movies. They are all in .avi format. The problem is, some of them are just a bit too big for me to fit onto a regular CDRW disk (I need them under 660 megs).

I have been looking for countless hours trying to find a simple .avi editor for Mac, but have come up empty-handed. Does anyone know a FREE .avi editor, so I can just simply splice some things from the beginning and end of these movies? Any help would be appreciated.

[Nap]

I am not aware of an avi editor in the sense of software that rearranges the sequence, or deletes parts and does it without having to re-encode or change the file format. However, QT Pro can easily split an avi -- assuming you have the codec to display it in Pro. You would only need to load the movie in QT Player, move the play head to the center, highlight all the way back to the beginning, then use Cut. That puts the first half of the video on the clip board. Open a new player (Command-N) and use Paste. That puts the first half in one QT document, while the second half is still in the original document. Now use Save As and give each part a new name.
The two avi parts will each now have a QT wrapper around them but will still play in QT Player. If you really need the parts to remain "real" avi files then this obviously is not going to help you. One alternative is the rather expensive VirtualPC. I have often split avi files in Windows using VirtualPC. A very nice free avi splitter for Windows is called Avi Chop and it was created to do eactly what you are trying to do.

[Jacke]

There's an app. called Explicit that claims to do that. It uses mencoder for it's magic.
I think I've used it once, but I don't remember being happy with the results...

[Uncle Skeleton]

Originally posted by kyles_mac:
(I need them under 660 megs).

Sounds like you're using the Finder for something the Finder has no business trying to do (in this case, burning CDs). There are many alternatives that don't impose this rediculous restriction (660 MB, that is). The best is Toast, but it's not free. The free-est (already on your hard drive) is Disk Utility (or in 10.2 and below, Disk Copy). Make a 700 MB disk image, copy your file(s) to it, burn it.

[kyles_mac]

When I tried to make a new Image on Disk Utility, it said that it was busy. Is there something that I am doing wrong? I've never worked with Disk Utility before, so I probably am doing something incorrect.

Thanks for everyone's help, by the way.