seems to be a nice program, but i just can´t figure out how to connect (join,add, forgive my bad english) 2 avi-movies to one single avi movie with sound.

AM Software:

Just drag & drop the second file into AVIedit window. Then select all its streams and drag & drop first file. Now save the result to the new avi file. This way, the videos must have the same frame size, compression and frame rate. If you plan to replace the soundtrack later, it would be fine to use Timeline Editor to fade the video streams one into another - it does not save the sound, but it is easy to add it later, using AVIedit.

I installed the AVIedit and tried to run it, but have got message, which says: Driver wasn't connected. Could anyone help me to fix it. Thanks.

AM Software:

Probably you do not have any capture board driver installed, or maybe you didn't select it as default. AVIedit tries to talk to your capture board but fails. BTW, this message occurs only when you start AVIedit with WDM option enabled as it scans for hardware each time you run it. Alternate legacy VfW capture option does not scan for hardware until you try opening Capture Window. Hope it helps.

I recorded approx 30 minutes of TV and I open the avi file in AVIEdit and at 20 mintues the rest of the frames in the file are black. It plays the full 30 mins in Media Player with video and audio throughout the whole duration. Basically, I wanna cut out the ads from the file but cannot access the last 10 mintues in AVIEdit. Any ideas?

AM Software:

It seems you have captured the file in an incompatible AVI format. Try to cut the ads using the same software you used to capture the file, or convert it for the compatibility.

Is there a way to take a large AVI file and split in two or three smaller AVI files.

AM Software:

Yes. Open your file, go to the middle of it, click on a frame. Then go to end and hold down SHIFT key before clicking on the last frame. The range becomes selected. Just hit DEL key (or SHIFT-DEL to cut off audio with corresponding video) and you're ready with first part. Now save the file to new one. To cut off first half of movie, select it the same way but click on first video frame. Also save to the new file. It's all. Strange you didn't find in the help file how to select frames...

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AM Software:

Please use English here. Many other visitors couldn't see what you wrote... We can't see too.

I can't save files in AVIEdit - after loading the movie I select 'Save as', set avi-output param., the file name and half second later I can see message box 'AVIERR_ERROR' and that's all. I tried different kodecks and nothing. I'm using win2000. What could be wrong?

AM Software:

...Anything. The message you saw means that error is internal to the codec or, maybe, your avi file causes the fault. AVIedit can handle about of 30+ common errors, reporting some more meaningful msg.

We will omit further error reports because you ignore our troubleshooting questionary. If you do not want to give us the complete description of your system and related files, how can we guess it ?

So, This is a perfect program so far. However, I cannot seem to add plugins to it. I got a few (and they end in 8bf) and put them in the AVIEdit directory, but they do not show up in the Plug-in menu.

AM Software:

AVIedit looks for the Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-ins in the plugins sub-directory or where you have chosen using Options/Preferences dialog box, Directories tab. This is clearly described in the help file. In addition, plugins you got may require some runtime .DLLs that you have missed to copy.

Your program is the best i ever seen..After some tries i could compress in real time video with any codec. However i can't get the audio encoding. I select windows media codec (like wma ,mp3) and i choose the bitrate. It doesn't give any wrong error, but when i check it out again it is set to PCM, i can only save avi with pcm but i have sound codecs why?

AM Software:

This is because the captured sound could be stored only in the hardware supported formats. Currently we know no such a soundcard (that would be able to compress to wma/mp3 via hardware, in realtime). AVIedit allows you to save the file just captured to any format you need, including mp3 when you have a codec, but the realtime compression requires a hardware support.
This is not a real problem because the audio takes about only 1/10 of video bandwidth (bitrate), so your HDD mainly is occupied by video, not by audio. Compressing audio at the capture time, you will get very small bonus.

First of all: My english isnt very good, but i must ask this question. I load an AVI File, then I generate a Filter (i put an image on the frames). But if I chose "Save movie as..." and watch the saved movie there isnt a filter anymore. If I choose "Export", then it works with the Filter, but I cant select the audiocodec. BTW: What's the difference between Export and "Save as" ?

AM Software:

This is Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) discussed in help file.
Unlike many other editors, AVIedit allows you to save edited file with source (original) video quality, also it allows you to recompress the file with any other codec. Adding any Filter requires the video first to be de-compressed, then filtered, and finally compressed again to reduce the size.
BTW, if you know the software that does, for example, Twirl effect or adds some text to the picture without the decompression, we will give you a free AVIedit registration. No joke, no such a software.
When you need only to delete frames and/or sound, "Save As" preserves the highest possible video quality for you. When you need some filters, they require decompressed video picture, thus only "Export to avi" is allowed. You should not change the audio settings when you export some video because it should be kept the same as source. If you really need, you could change the audio codec later. Now, Export simply copies the sound track from source movie to exported. Compare to Adobe Premiere: there is no way to save untouched frames and, likewise, audio track is often resampled.

When I select and delete a collection of video frames, AVIedit doesn't delete the corresponding audio portion. So if I delete half the frames from a 60 sec video I'm left with a 30 sec video track and a 60 sec audio track. This makes the tool less than useful. What do I do?

AM Software:

This topic (frame selection and hot keys) is explained in the help file.
AVIedit deletes exactly what you have selected. No less than, no more. It is your problem, not the AVIedit issue. Pressing DEL you will cut off only the stream you selected. To delete video with the corresponding audio, even if you forget to select them, please use SHIFT-DEL. Ignoring the help file, you will find any tool useless.

I open an avi file I converted to DIVX from DVD and delete the end of it where the credits are. When I go to SAVE AS I don't have a "no recompression" option. The option is there before I delete the end of the movie but not after. I've tried different options but it won't change from uncompressed. The saved file is always in the gig size and in more than one part. Could anyone PLEASE help?

AM Software:

Unlike many other simple video codecs, DivX compares adjacent frames of video and writes to an avi file not entire frames, but "differences" between them. This results in very good compression ratio, but makes editing somewhat harder because when you cut off the piece of video the codec loses the "differences chain" before and after this cut. DivX hides "no recompression" option from the list, thus require you to compress video twice (with loss of quality).

To preserve the saving without recompression, you need to cut only delta frames, leaving keyframes in place. DivX inserts a keyframe approximately once per 4-10 seconds of video. To find keyframes with AVIedit, use Options/Mark keyframes and see at frame right bottom edge. There are K and D letters indicating key and delta frames. Then delete only D-marked frames between two K's.

Hi, I really like the effects available in AVIedit, but I can't seem to export avis properly. When I export, clicking on the compression button does nothing and it will export a single frame avi! What am I doing wrong?

AM Software:

Probably you have not selected the frames to export and AVIedit simply exports the frame at center of screen... Also, do not forget to check "what to filter" option.

I like the program so far. I am experiencing a problem and hope someone might have a solution. Record an AVI from my recording software and AVIedit refuses to open the file. I capture the same clip thru AVIedit. It puts the file capturexxx.avi in the root of C:. AVIEdit still refuses to open the file, even though it captured it. I get a dialog box with "AVIedit error" "cannot open C:\capturexx.avi" ("x" are replaced with the capture number. All the cips play fine thru Windows Media player, so I've certainly got the codecs installed. Any ideas?

AM Software:

AVIedit requires the file to be normal AVI RIFF format. There is an AVI fmt extension often called OpenDML, its two main differences are multi-chunking and, as the result, file size >2 GB. AVIedit does not support these and has built-in engine to workaround this limit.

If the capture driver defaults to write incompatible AVI files format, the application that operates the capture does not matter. In other words, both AVIedit and other software use the same driver with nearly the same result.

Mediaplayer needs a different way to access video content, it needs streaming rather the frame-by-frame editing, and it uses another simplified interface to play movies. Fortunately, it supports OpenDML :)

There are some good news, we're working on even >2GB files support...

BTW, to have AVIedit to capture to another location, not root of C:, please use the Options/Preferences dialog box, Directories tab. And hit F1 sometimes :)

Great Program! The small size of AVIedit really speeds things up, on a machine with limited memory. One thing though, How can I preview a video at a certain spot, without starting at the beginning?. Thanks.

AM Software:

Thank you too :)
When auto-rewind is checked (see the Preferences dialog box) AVIedit starts from the begin if you're currently past of about 90 percent of the movie length. If auto-rewind is un-checked, simply press SPACE key to play from any point and ESC to stop

Cool! I can get frames from my favorite avi's and I've even made a movie or two of my own. I even watch movies with this thing.

WHY I CAN NOT TO CHANGE THE COLOR IN YOUR SNOWFLAKE PROGRAM? THANKS

AM Software:

This depends on how you did it... I use this way: hit "Color" button, a standard Windows Choose color dialog box appears. There are custom colors (two rows of 8 colored cells each), and leftmost two are blue and white. They're used for a snowflake. To change these, click left mouse button on it, then point to the desired color on the big colored pattern right side of dialog box. Click "Add to custom colors" button, then hit Ok. It should work...

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Hi, this has been a really great software for recording video and it actually works better than my Ulead Video Studio. However, I noticed that the audio and video frames tend to lose their synchronization whenever I capture long videos of about 30 mins. The recorded sound will be played sometimes 2-3 seconds before the corresponding video frame. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem?

AM Software:

The cause of this de-sync is, different crystal oscillators you have on your video capture board and audio card. The only hardware that does not have such a desync's I know, are miroDC series from Pinnacle. [and similar designed cards] They have a single chip that sets sampling rate for sound and for video timings. Most other hardware combinations definitely could (and often will) have some little time measurement difference, microseconds resulting in a noticeable de-syncs of video and audio after hundreds of thousand frames captured. To minimize desync's at capture time there is an option to assign Audio stream as master (see Capture/Options). Also, after some edits you could change the frame rate of video, say, from 24.0 to 23.997 fps which will affect clip duration and, due this, a synchronization of your video and audio.

Hm... Tried to save .avi file using Microcrap Mpeg-4 video codec, but the program aborted. What we' ve done: Save as... ; Compressing parameters ; choosing Microcrap Mpeg-4 compressor; preview ... As the result the program aborted. Nice feature.

AM Software:

Most likely your video frame size was not multiple of 8 or 16, that is, not 320x240, 704x576 or something similar. Or, maybe, 8 bit per pixel (paletted image). Another "or" - try using DivX :)
Please see our support page for a troubleshooting questionary.

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WOW! Finally a decent AVI editor that actually works without crshing Windows! Brilliant, very nice peice of work. My cat Beauty sends you all purrs.

If there's no sound, maybe the recording level is set to zero in Windows Mixer or corresponding audio-in line is switched off. Or, maybe, you need to check "capture sound" at the Capture Options dialog box. About the translation to Dutch: you can simply translate lang.eng file from your current AVIedit package and send it back to me. Thanks in advance :)

I have just started out with video capture (wanted to use my v6800 cards in port for something). I really like this ultility simple where everything else would be overdone, and advanced where it counts. I just have one problem. Somehow it won't record sound with the input. I have put the sound to my line in on the Soundblaster and I can hear the vcr on my computer, but it just won't record. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any help offered. BTW If you need someone to translate the utility to Dutch, just let me know what you want the translator to submit and I'll see if I can help out.

AVIedit reports the failure of capture sequence even if only the dropped frames percentage exceeds 10 percents (or whatever you have set...) - may be you need to adjust this limit using Capture options ?

Nice program. The only problem I have is that video capture fail mesages come up when I try to close the capture process. For now, I capture separately in my ATI AL IN WONDER software

Here you could sign up our guestbook. Please use the English as preferred language, not HTML. I would like to use my guestbook to meet the users of AVIedit. Feel free to ask something about it, learn more or exchange a know-how with other visitors. However, if you have a simple "how to" question, please look into the help file first. It is a chance to get answer there :)