Need a video editor that can handle a 50gig file... Anybody know of one?

[BaDaBooM]

I have two 50 gig files (~14 hours each) I need to split into smaller chunks like 2 hours each. They are MPEG2 files. I have tried a bunch of video editing software but none of them seem to read it right. Here is what I have already tried:

Adobe Premiere (figured this should work, but says the file is 00:00:00 long)
honestech MPEG Editor
LSX plugin for Premiere (couldn't find a shareware version of the software)
M2-edit pro
MGI Videowave
Virtual Dub *added
tmpgenc *added
Even gave Windows Video Maker a try

None of these seem to handle this. Anyone know of one that will?

 

[jonmullen]

I would bet that Film Gimp could, but unless you have a *nix box you have going to have to wait for the Windows port. The site says that the Win32 port will be out this month. Have you tried Ulead... there is one more big one for windows, but I can't remember the name. Some one else is sure to though. Good luck

 

[Agent004]

Have you tried tmpgenc?

 

[sean2002]

Maybe Virtual Dub?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Id give virtual dub a shot ... It can handle 5GB files OK if i remember correctly .... nothing like 50 but more than some.

 

[BaDaBooM]

I should have specified that I needed it for windows.... Sorry. So Film Gimp is out for now and I didn't see anything about Final Cut Pro other than on a MAC. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I forgot I already tried virutal dub.

I just tried tmpgenc, errored out when I tried to load the file.

These are good files though, as I can play them just fine. I recorded them with ATI AIW capturing. Any other suggestions? I know these are big files but I can't imagine that nobody can handle it.

 

[notfred]

Avid Xpress

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Id give virtual dub a shot ... It can handle 5GB files OK if i remember correctly .... nothing like 50 but more than some.

I haven't been able to get VirtualDub to open any MPEG2 files; always gives an error. The files are ones I got from recording shows on a WinTV-PVR card; maybe that has something to do with it.

 

[ScottMac]

I do greater than 50gig files in Premiere and Vegas Video all the time, maybe your file is FUBAR / bad format / wrong format?

FWIW

Scott

 

[BaDaBooM]

Originally posted by: ScottMac
I do greater than 50gig files in Premiere and Vegas Video all the time, maybe your file is FUBAR / bad format / wrong format?

FWIW

Scott

:Q I hope not.... I can play them just fine and I can open them in MGI ok and it plays but it shows duration as 00:00:00 and also shows the file size as wrong. In Premiere I get the file imported but the length is wrong and then it crashes when I try to put it in the time line.

 

[ScottMac]

What version of Premiere?

6.0 May have had this problem, the 6.01 or (beta) 6.02 patch may take care of it.

You don't mention which OS you're running, but if it's WIN9.X, or ME, it may be a limitation of the OS (or the software running on that OS). I haven't worked with MGI (VideoWave?), so I'm not sure about how they do things.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[NicColt]

>I do greater than 50gig files in Premiere and Vegas Video all the time,

RAW format yes but not MPEG2

Here's what I said before and in short, there are several types of MPEG and they are all different, for video the most popular are MPEG1 and MPEG2 and MPEG4 and of course MPEG3 for audio.

There's a big difference between manipulating and editing MPEG video. There's also a big difference between MPEG1 and MPEG2.

MPEG2 was never intended to be edited, MPEG2 was intended to be rendered from RAW streams and that's it, it was never intended to be an open codec. MPEG4 for example can be a closed or an open codec but MPEG1 will always be an open codec. Divx 5.0 for example which is an open codec uses a different MPEG4 algorithm than Microsof's MPEG4 v7 or v8 which is a closed codec. Divx 3.11 for example was hacked into an open codec which is from Microsoft's MPEG4 v3 which is a closed codecs.

The MPEG2 codec is not free and contains proprietary codec algorithms, different MPEG2 codec algorithms can be made by several different companies, no matter what editor you have (well >$5000 anyway) even the worlds best MPEG2 editors may not properly work at editing certain MPEG2 algorithms or streams, they may work for some and not for others. For instance I use the main concept MPEG2 codec that's included with Vegas Video but my ATI-AIW capture card captures uses the Go Motion MPEG2 codec. All editors will 'do their best' at editing proprietary MPEG2 streams. The more complicated the algorithm of the MPEG2 codec stream is the more difficulties MPEG2 editors will have at decoding the proprietary algorithms because of this problems can vary from out of sync clips to program crashes, or whatever... The bigger the file the bigger the problem.

This is not a problem with MPEG2 editors, it's the nature of the proprietary MPEG2 codecs. In the end, unless you put down $25,000 down on a professional system, there is no guarantee anything will work.