Extract a part of video and save it as septate file

alibahaloo:

Welcome to SF!

There is some third-party software that you can try:

AnyVideoConverter will let you crop videos. You can get it here: Free Video Converter - Any Video Converter Free Version - convert video to any formats, avi to MPEG, avi to MP4, flv to MPG

alibahaloo said:

Hi people,
I want to do something but i had no idea how, didn't know where else to post. sorry if here's not right place.
I want to extract a part of a video clip, like a movie, and save as a separate file. how can i do it? name me some software that you may know, open source/free software preferred :)

cheers

Depending on your video format you can use Apples Quicktime Pro which will let you make and save "clips" (parts of a video) under Windows 7. But I think Quicktime Pro costs a few dollars - it isn't freeware.

The easiest way to do it is to play the video in VLC player and click record button to start recording when you want, then press the button again to stop recording.

The recorded clip is by default saved in your Documents folder, automatically named as
vlc-record-YYYY-MM-DD-TIME-NAME-.XXX

- YYYY-MM-DD is the date when recording is made, for instance today would be 2010-12-07
- TIME is the time when recording started
- NAME is the name of the original video
- XXX is the extension, telling the file type

Recordings are by default saved in same format as original, for instance recording from an AVI creates an .avi file and so on



VLC free download: VideoLAN - VLC media player - Open Source Multimedia Framework and Player

Kari

nice, thanks for all the replies,
for me, i think the most practical one is using VLC, however, when i open a video (AVI) with it, there's no "record" button... Here's a snapshot, can anyone help?!

Right click inside the VLC window. Choose View > Advanced Controls from context menu to show advanced control toolbar on VLC. Please notice the View menu option is available only when VLC is in windowed mode, not when in full screen mode.



Kari

Ingen problem. Fråga bara om du har mera frågor, det är därför vi är här! Det är kul att få mina med Skandinavier hit, jag har inte so många tillfällen for att använda Svenska språket.



No problem. Ask if you have more questions, that's why we are here! It's nice to get my fellow Scandinavians here, I have not so many opportunities to use the Swedish language.

Kari