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Getting started

AVI Trimmer+ is a fast and powerful video splitting tool (see supported file formats). You can split your video file into parts with a few mouse clicks without any quality loss.
It is also possible to cut out several file portions of a movie at one time. You can get rid of all commercials in your movie in a couple of simple steps. AVI Trimmer+ operates with K frame accuracy.

The slicing feature of AVI Trimmer+ allows to split files in parts by specified duration, size and by number of equal parts.
It is also possible to make the screenshot from the selected video frame.

Such features as batch processing of several tasks within one run and joining feature are available in the our shareware product, SolveigMM Video Splitter.

In this section:

Basic terms

This section explains the key terms referred to throughout this document. Understanding these terms will help you start using AVI Trimmer+ in the most comfortable way.

Splitting process

Splitting is the process of dividing your video files into parts. For example, you can cut out a piece of video with undesired scenes (e.g. commercials, corrupted video). The splitting process leaves source files intact saving the result in the destination file.

Joining process

Joining is the process of combining multiple parts or fragments of video/audio into a single file. Joining does not involve reencoding so it does not affect the output audio/video quality.

This feature is not available in AVI Trimmer+ but is supported by Video Splitter.

Source and destination files

The source and destination files are the video files of a supported format. The source file contains video that you can split into parts, the destination file contains the final movie clip. During the splitting process, the source file remains in its original location and will not be changed or deleted.

Markers

A marker is a constituent part of a fragment. A fragment consists of two markers: start and end. It is set in the current cursor position.

Start marker End marker

A selected marker is highlighted in blue:

Selected marker

Such operations as deleting and positioning are applied to selected markers only.

Fragments

A fragment is a part of a movie (or audio) file limited by two markers that is to be removed or kept in the final movie, e.g. the commercial block you need to be cut out.
You can see sample fragments below:

Cut Fragment unselected Cut Fragment selected

Keep Fragment unselected Keep Fragment selected

For more detailed color definition see Using splitting controls section.

Supported file formats

AVI Trimmer+ supports the following media file formats:

  • AVI file format

    • any video content (DivX, DV, MJPEG, XVID, MPEG-4, etc.)
    • any audio content (MPEG-1/2 Layer 1/2/3, Dolby AC3, PCM, OGG, WMA, etc.)
    • AVI DV type1 and type2
    • any file size (more than 2 GB)
    • OpenDML AVI extension

  • WMV file format

    • any Windows Media video content (WM Video 7/9, MPEG-4 v 1/3, etc.)
    • any Windows Media audio content (WM audio 2/9, etc.)
    • non-indexed or damaged WMV files

  • ASF file format

    • any video content (DivX, MJPEG, XVID, MPEG-4, WM Video 7/9, etc.)
    • any audio content (MPEG-1/2 Layer 1/2/3, Dolby AC3, PCM, OGG, WMA, etc.)
    • non-indexed or damaged ASF files

  • MPEG Audio Format files (*.mp1, *.mp2, *.mp3, *.mpa)

    • MPEG-1 Layer I, II, III
    • MPEG-2 Layer I, II, III

  • MOV file format files (*.mov)

  • MP4 file format files (*.mp4)

  • MKV file format files (*.mkv)

  • WEBM file format files (*.webm)

  • FLV file format files (*.flv)

Additional formats that are supported in the paid product Video Splitter:

  • AVCHD file format files (*.m2ts, *.mts)

  • MPEG-1 Video Format files (*.mpg, *.mpeg, *.m1v, *.mpv)

  • MPEG-2 Video Format files (*.mpg, *.mpeg, *.mpv, *.m2v, *.vob)

Indexation supports the following file formats:

  • MPEG-1 Video Format files (*.mpg, *.mpeg, *.m1v, *.mpv)

  • MPEG-2 Video Format files (*.mpg, *.mpeg, *.mpv, *.m2v, *.vob, *.ts, *.m2ts, *.vob)

Support of embedded subtitles of formats (*):

  • UTF8
  • ASS
  • SSA
  • GAB2

Support of external subtitles of formats (**):

  • ASS
  • SRT

(*) - Available for file formats: AVI, MKV, WEBM
(**) - Available for file formats: AVI, MKV, WEBM, MP4

The editing operation in AVI Trimmer+ go with GOP (key frame) accuracy.

Video Splitter allows receiving more accurate results due to fact of supporting frame accurate mode of files editing.
Please see this how-to page to learn more about difference between key frame accurate and frame accurate editing.

System requirements

Software Requirements

Hardware Requirements

  • CPU (Intel® Pentium II, Celeron, AMD® Athlon, Opteron etc.)
  • 128 MB RAM
  • Any VGA card
  • About 100 MB of free disk space

Keyboard shortcuts

Almost every procedure in AVI Trimmer+ can be done using shortcut keys. Using these shortcut keys you can do some tasks more quickly.
The table below provides the list of operations that you can perform using keyboard shortcuts.

Hot Keys of AVI Trimmer+ :

Operation Shortcut key
Open Media File Ctrl + O
Save project Ctrl + S
Next K frame Right arrow
Previous K frame Left arrow
Next frame Ctrl + Right arrow
Previous frame Ctrl + Left arrow
Jump 2 min forward Shift + Right Arrow
Jump 2 min backward Shift + Left Arrow
Jump 1/20th of the movie length forward Page Up
Jump 1/20th of the movie length backward Page Down
Jump to movie end End
Jump to movie start Home
Zoom in NumPad +
Zoom out NumPad -
Maximize zoom NumPad /
Reset zoom NumPad *
Move scaled area right Alt + Right Arrow
Move scaled area left Alt + Left Arrow
Play/Pause Space
Add marker M
Add marker + Invert fragment N
Remove marker(s) Delete
Clear all markers Ctrl + C
Select next marker Tab
Select previous marker Shift + Tab
Select slider cursor Ctrl + Tab
Keep the selected fragment S
Cut out the selected fragment D
Cut out previous fragment F
Invert time line fragments I
Start the splitting process Ctrl + T
Show the batch manager Ctrl + B
Help topics F1
Close file Ctrl + W

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