[motoyen]

I am trying to cut an mpeg clip in half. I thought I could just cut and past it but that didn't work. I read the post below about exporting it as a dv stream. I did that and lost the audio. Tried using bbDEMUX but I couldn't import the files it saved into either imovie or FCP.

So now I am stumped. I can bring the dv file into FCP pro and cut it to the length I want but I have no sound. If anyone can help I would appreciate it.

TIA

[King Chung Huang]

Select the portion of the clip that you want, then drag it (the visible image) out to the desktop.

[Chuck_star]

Or if you really want FCP to read the demuxed file. In QT export video to QT mov. And compress the audio file into an MP3 with whatever.

[nima15]

For PC: you can decompress a mpeg by turning it back to AVI using something like virtualdub software.

In Mac:use quick time to decompress it to QT format the edit it.


Cheers

[motoyen]

ok i still am not having any luck here.

to recap what i have done. i tried extracting the audio/vidio with bbDEMUX but then i couldn't import the audio file into FCP or iMovie.

I tried exporting it as a DV stream and lost the audio, same withe exporting it as a quicktime movie.

i tried dragging the image to the deskp top and got a 1k file that did nothing. i tried to save it as a self containted movie but all it did was it as the original file.

So this really sucks. I need this done for business and would glady pay someone to do it.

Is there no way I can cut an mpeg clip in 2 with sound?

Right, first demux it with bbdemux, then you'll have to decode the MPEG1 Audio to AIFF, which can be done with Drop Decoder (get it here).
I don't know if FCP can work with MPEG video, but if not, you can export it from QT to a compatible format.
Then import the video and the audio file you got from Drop Decoder to FCP.

[m.brown]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by &lt;Jacke [Remote]&gt;:
<strong>Right, first demux it with bbdemux, then you'll have to decode the MPEG1 Audio to AIFF, which can be done with Drop Decoder (get it <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/kind=1&db=mac&id=3026/MDDecoder2.bin" target="_blank">here</a>).
I don't know if FCP can work with MPEG video, but if not, you can export it from QT to a compatible format.
Then import the video and the audio file you got from Drop Decoder to FCP.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Thank you so much! Finally what I was looking for. Why though can QT 6 Pro with MPEG-2 decoder not do what bbdemux do? Any ideas?