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

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.

Other than the codec settings, saving the source as an AVI follows the same procedure.

Once you have selected the codec that you want from the dropdown list, the Configure button will give you access to the codec's interface, if one is available. If you need help with a specific codec please contact the codec manufacturer. Our support department is not qualified to troubleshoot codec issues.