Splitting .mov files

jerri_blank · January 1, 2011, 8:15pm

In which I demonstrate my complete ignorance about video editing:

I have a Zoom Q3 camera that captures video in Quicktime. I shot some video that needs to be split into shorter videos. I would like to do this without decoding in a video editor and then re-encoding. Is this possible? If so, how?

EDIT: Okay, apparently Quicktime Pro will do this. If anyone knows of anything free, that’d be great.

Douglas · January 2, 2011, 6:00pm

YAMB.

chequers · January 2, 2011, 6:30pm

You can do this, but you can only cut on IDR(‘key’)-frames, so you may not be able to cut precisely where you want to.

jerri_blank · January 2, 2011, 8:20pm

Thanks, Krok, but standard QT wouldn’t do it - all the functions I needed had “Pro” next to them. So I ponied up $30 for it, because I was on sort of a deadline.

Douglas, I wish I’d seen your post first. Ah, well - QT Pro did a nice job, and it was damned easy - everything’s done in the viewer with a marker at the bottom of the window.