Editing un-compressed AVI?

[Jaw3000]

Hi,

I have an uncompressed AVI file of a TV show I've captured with my capture card. I want to edit out the commercials, add a clip from another un-compressed AVI, and then encode to Xvid. How do I go about editing this AVI file? Which software should I use?

I've tried a couple DV editing programs, like Pinnacle Studio, and I can't export the edited clip back out as an un-compressed AVI. I don't want to have to encode it before I encode it with Gordian Knot to Xvid? Is there a way to do this with a freeware/shareware software?

Thanks!
-Jaws

[Kedirekin]

Removing commercials is very easy in VirtualDub.

You can then save the edited avi as either HuffyYUV (a lossless codec that is as good as uncompressed - at about a third the size) or back to uncompressed via direct stream copy.

[killingspree]

if you are familiar with avisynth you can also accomplish the task there and then do the cropping, resizing and filtering gk does normally directly in there. would save you a step but makes things quite a bit more difficult too - so of course it's up to you how to handle it.

virtualdub(mod) is definitely an excellent solution :)

steVe