more dumb questions

[gahz]

hey guys, wondering if anyone can help me out with a couple questions:

1. can someone recommend an app that will let me cut an audio file of which i don't know the timestamp but i know what frame in the movie i want it cut at?

2. with megui, if i have an ac3 source with x settings and i choose the same ac3 settings in megui does it actually do anything to my file or does it just spit out the original file?

[Hagbard23]

Hey Gahz...

Maybe you give DelayCut a try:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/AC3_Delay_Corrector.htm

I got it somewhere in a Eac3To or Eac3toGUI package, as far as i can remember.

The program should be able to cut at frames - if not, you can easily calculate the time (in milliseconds).

For Example:

Movie has 25FPS - you want to cut at Frame 123456. So you Divide the Frames by 25 and you got the time in Seconds.

Since 1 Second got 1000 Milliseconds you simply multiply the value by 1000 and you got your time in milliseconds.

If you want the time to be displayed like this: hh.mm.ss.msmsmsms, then you have to calculate the milliseconds new - which should not be a problem.

Alternatively you can cut the track via Avisynth, but i can't give you hints about that, since i always use "delaycut".

The second question i can't exactly answer,since i do not use megui. But i assume, that if the settings are exactly the same, there should not be any recoding - well, it should do the job like this, but ask the developer if you want to be sure...

BTW: If you want to be sure, it would be an option to write the avisynth-scripts by yourself and throw meGUI away - it is the most direct way, i think...

[gahz]

hey thanks for the help i'll give this a try!

also i like using megui because it makes batch queing so easy!

[tebasuna51]

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2. with megui, if i have an ac3 source with x settings and i choose the same ac3 settings in megui does it actually do anything to my file or does it just spit out the original file?

With Megui use Tools -> AVS Cutter to make the video cuts and save the .avs and .clt (cuts file)

If you don't need recode the audio use Tools -> Audio Cutter to split and join the audio.

If you need recode the audio, load the .clt file in Audio Tab -> Cuts