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Beta Testing / SolveigMM Video Splitter v 1.2.7.31 beta update is available

« on: August 02, 2006, 01:18:49 PM »

SolveigMM Video Splitter v 1.2.7.31 beta update is available.
Zooming timeline slider In/Out feature was implemented.

http://solveigmm.com/?Products&id=VideoSplitter



Fixes:
- The bug with HD WMW Video was fixed. Video Splitter was unable to trim some HD WMW files because of out of memory

Features:
- Zooming timeline slider In / Out feature was implemented.
- "Jump to 2 min backward / forward" hotkeys (SHIFT+Left / Right Arrow) were added
Changes:
- Navigation Commands were placed to Edit->Navigation submenu
- Zoom Commands were placed to Edit->Zoom submenu

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Video Splitter / SolveigMM v1.2718 - No Video Preview except "Cvid"

« on: July 31, 2006, 01:32:31 PM »

Dear Stan,
First of all thank you for purchasing our software.
Could you please check whether the problem exists in our new version 1.2726?
http://www.solveigmm.com/files/SolveigMM_Video_Splitter_1_2_beta_se.zip

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Beta Testing / SolveigMM Video Splitter 1.2 User Guide:

« on: July 18, 2006, 05:46:41 PM »

SolveigMM Video Splitter 1.2 User Guide:
http://solveigmm.com/files/USG_Video_Splitter.pdf

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Beta Testing / update 1.2.7.17 beta is out

« on: July 17, 2006, 11:44:07 AM »

Version 1.2.7.15 update  Release Date: July 15,  2006


Fixes:


-The bug with Unicode file names e.g. with Chinese or Japanese symbols was fixed. Video Splitter was unable to open/same such files.
-The bug with opening/playing WMV files by Windows Media Player was fixed. After opening, WMP  didn’t start playing of WMV files produced by Video Splitter.
-The ASF files produced by Beholder TV Tuner was fixed. Video Splitter was unable to edit ASF files (DivX + PCM) captured within Beholder TV Tuner.
-Some more bugs with WMV video/audio trimming precise were fixed

Features:


-Some Menu, Context Menu and Batch Manager changes were made for GUI simplification.
-"Menu->Output File Name.." was changed to "Save Media File As..". This menu point sets out file name and either starts trimming or add task to batch queue.
-"Context Menu->Save Selected Fragment As..." point was added.  This point operates like "Menu->Output File Name.." but with one fragment only.
-"Invert Time Line Fragments" command automatically adds additional markers if it is necessary.
-For now you can switch off "Markers K Frame Positioning" and "Slider K Frame Positioning"
-Ignoring Trimming Errors" feature was added. (It's used when WM/ASF Reader delivers error "the buffer is not big enough").
-All the features including Task List (batch) file format is documented.

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Beta Testing / batch file example

« on: June 14, 2006, 12:04:08 AM »

batch file structure
Batch files Video Splitter supports have extension - *.xtl and based on DirectShow Editing Services XTL format.

timeline Element
The timeline element defines the timeline. This element is the root node in the XML file.
Example:
<timeline> </timeline>

group Element
The group element defines a group, the top-level object in a timeline.
Example
<group name="C:\video\result\Noname.avi"> </group>
Attributes: name

track Element
The track element defines a track object (media files  ).

Example
 <track video="1" audio="2" obey_sample_times="0">
 </track>
Attributes: video, audio, obey_sample_times

clip Element
The clip specifies a media source.

Example
<clip src="C:\video\Progulka.avi"  start="00:00:00.00"    stop="00:12:32.00" />
Attributes: src, start, stop

name Attribute
The name attribute specifies output file name with path

video Attribute
The video attribute specifies number of video stream. 0 value means the output file has not to contain a video stream

audio Attribute
The audio attribute specifies number of audio stream. 0 value means the output file has not to contain an audio stream

obey_sample_times Attribute
The obey_sample_times attribute specifies to use alternative synchronization algorithm. 0 value means to use default one.

src Attribute
The src attribute specifies the path name of an input media file

start Attribute
The src attribute specifies start time of a fragment to be saved in output file.

stop Attribute
The src attribute specifies stop time of a fragment to be saved in output file.

Must be a string with the format hh:mm:ss.ff format, where hh = hours, mm = minutes, ss = seconds, and ff = fractions of seconds. Example: 1:04:30.512. Leading units can be omitted. For example, 3:00 (three minutes) and 45 (45 seconds) are both valid.



batch file example:

<timeline>
    <group name="C:\video\result\Noname.avi">
        <track video="1" audio="2" obey_sample_times="0">

            <clip src="C:\video\Progulka.avi"  start="00:00:00.00"    stop="00:12:32.00" />
            <clip src="C:\video\Progulka.avi"  start="00:32:41.00"    stop="00:42:02.00" />
            <clip src="C:\video\Progulka.avi"  start="00:54:09.00"    stop="01:08:51.00" />

        </track>
    </group>
    <group name="C:\video\result\Noname1.avi">
        <track video="0" audio="1" obey_sample_times="1">
            <clip src="C:\video\Microcosmos.avi"  start="00:11:48.08"    stop="00:20:14.52" />
        </track>
    </group>
</timeline>


As result there should be created two files:
1 - C:\video\result\Noname.avi
the file have to consist of three sequential fragments from C:\video\Progulka.avi

2 - C:\video\result\Noname1.avi
the file have to consist of one audio fragment from C:\video\Microcosmos.avi

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Beta Testing / SolveigMM Video Splitter 1.2 beta with batch files support

« on: June 13, 2006, 11:30:57 PM »

SolveigMM VideoSplitter 1.2 beta with batch files support is out

SolveigMM Video Splitter being AVI Splitter, WMV/ASF Splitter is a powerful tool to perform fast video trimming tasks without any quality loss. It has intuitive user-friendly interface and allows an user to split, cut or trim a video file in few mouse clicks. Based on SolveigMM AVI Trimmer Component, SolveigMM Video Splitter is very fast (much more than real-time playback) since it is free from encoding/decoding operations.

Solveig Multimedia is proud to introduce a new feature that makes video editing more comfortable and easy. Now it is possible to define fragments in video file, turn them on or off and render final video in one pass to cut off any movie portions.

SolveigMM Video Splitter features:

Based on SolveigMM AVI Trimmer Component (COM object)
Supports any AVI file format (DV type 1, 2, OpenDML) with any video (DivX, XviD, 3ivX, etc) and audio (MPEG L. 1,2,3, AC3, etc) content
Supports WMV format
Supports ASF file format with any video (WMV 1,2,3, MPEG-4 AVC, DivX, etc) and audio (MPEG L. 1,2,3, AC3, WMAudio V 2,7,8, etc) content

AVI to ASF re-multiplexing (without re-encoding)

Supports large AVI files (more than 2GB)
Allows trimming AVI files contained VBR audio without synchronization loss
Advanced K frame navigation
K frame accuracy
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get ) preview
Cutting off several file portions of a movie at one time is allowed. You can get rid of all commercials in your movie in a couple of simple steps.
Supports bath files (*.xtl). You can edit all the files you need in one run



Features:
- Batch files processing (trimming, saving/opening list file)
- Audio stream choosing ability was added (before, the first audio stream was trimmed )

Fixes:
- The bug with WMV last frame was fixed (often last video frame of WMV was not rendered)
- The bug with WMA inaccuracy was fixed
- Some trimming bugs concerning inaccuracy and video artifacts were fixed

Restrictions:
- Batch files  processing is not documented for the present

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Video Splitter / SolveigMM VideoSplitter 1.1 Release is out

« on: May 11, 2006, 10:23:39 AM »

SolveigMM VideoSplitter 1.1 Release is out

SolveigMM Video Splitter being AVI Splitter, WMV/ASF Splitter is a powerful tool to perform fast video trimming tasks without any quality loss. It has intuitive user-friendly interface and allows an user to split, cut or trim a video file in few mouse clicks. Based on SolveigMM AVI Trimmer Component, SolveigMM Video Splitter is very fast (much more than real-time playback) since it is free from encoding/decoding operations.

Solveig Multimedia is proud to introduce a new feature that makes video editing more comfortable and easy. Now it is possible to define fragments in video file, turn them on or off and render final video in one pass to cut off any movie portions.

SolveigMM Video Splitter features:

Based on SolveigMM AVI Trimmer Component (COM object)
Supports any AVI file format (DV type 1, 2, OpenDML) with any video (DivX, XviD, 3ivX, etc) and audio (MPEG L. 1,2,3, AC3, etc) content
Supports  WMV  format
Supports  ASF file format with any video (WMV 1,2,3,  MPEG-4 AVC, DivX, etc) and audio (MPEG L. 1,2,3, AC3, WMAudio V 2,7,8, etc) content

AVI to ASF re-multiplexing (without re-encoding)

Supports large AVI files (more than 2GB)
Allows trimming AVI files contained VBR audio without synchronization loss
Advanced K frame navigation
K frame accuracy
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get ) preview
Cutting off several file portions of a movie at one time is allowed. You can get rid of all commercials in your movie in a couple of simple steps.



Enhanced:
- Buttons "Open file" and "Output File" have been added for usability to "Movie" and "Selection" sections
- Feature to "Index" or "Remux with indexing" for  unindexed or damaged  ASF and WMV  files has been added
- Time Edit Boxes for markers and fragments are enabled to manual editing
- "Copy/Paste" feature has been added to time edit boxes of slider and markers
- Jumping to 1/20th of movie length forward and backward (Page Up, Page Down) and to a movie start/end positions (End, Home) has been added
- Positioning feature has been added. Now upon double-click to a marker, the slider jumps to a marker position

Fixes:
- The bug with AVI damaging while trimming has been fixed (after trimming in lower part of video in some AVI files appeared artifacts)
- The bug with a last frame in timeline has been fixed (neither markers nor slider were allowed to be set to last frame)
- The bug with redrawing a video frame while dragging the Video Splitter in overlay mode has been fixed (now a frame is redrawn after dragging stops)
- The bug with filters enumerating in "icon"->"info" dialog has been fixed
- The bug with one of AVI streams splitting has been fixed ( if AVI had only one stream: video or audio, or a user selected only one stream to be trimmed the Splitter didn’t operate )
- The bug with audio only of WMV/ASF splitting has been fixed ( if a user selected audio stream to be trimmed the Splitter didn’t operate )
- The bug with audio AVI to ASF conversation has been fixed ( if a user selected audio stream to be trimmed to ASF file the Splitter didn’t operate )

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SolveigMM AVI Trimmer / AVI Joiner in the works?

« on: April 24, 2006, 09:48:45 PM »

hello coyotewrw,

Thank you for the warm words of our software.

We consider implementing join feature to the Video Splitter.
I suppose it will be added in one of futher versions.

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Beta Testing / SolveigMM Video Splitter 1.1 Beta (WMV/ASF support)

« on: April 16, 2006, 05:25:37 PM »

Hello George,

Thank you for your suggestions!

PageUp/Page down feature will be implemented in the next version that should be released within April.

As for "TMPEG Media Editor" we shall necessarily take a look at the probram for investigating its GUI usability.

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Beta Testing / Re: Video Splitter

« on: April 13, 2006, 10:27:30 AM »

When I talk about PageUp / Page Down, I do mean navigatation though certain number of frames (it would be better to be adjustable in settings\options).
The usability of such feature is obvious, when you need to make cuts in a small range of non-sequencial frames (eg when you need to remove from a clip

the following frames 121-129, 154-185, 253-352, 391-542...)

What do you mean by saying "the part of movie the slider has to jump over should be adjustable" ?
I want to select specific frame start / end for each range & this to be made easy by keyboard shortcuts (not mouse-only).

Ok, thanks for the explanation.
But the ceratain number of frames could be possible to cut or cut off with frame accuracy trimming only.

Neverless what do you think if we  add (PageUp / Page Down) keys (not being adjustable first) that will jump to e.g. one tenth of movie length?

What do you mean by saying "the part of movie the slider has to jump over should be adjustable" ?

I meant the thing you mentioned by yourself  

(it would be better to be adjustable in settings\options).

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Beta Testing / SolveigMM AVI Trimmer 1.2 beta (freeware)

« on: April 12, 2006, 04:29:30 PM »

SolveigMM AVI Trimmer 1.2 is out
Since Ver. 1.2 Cutting off any portions of a movie at one time is allowed!

SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is a useful tool to enable a very fast trimming or cutting any necessary part of the source AVI file of any size without quality loss. The trimming process is much faster than a real time playing since the core trimming technology doesn't use any decoding/encoding process.


A distinct feature from others similar products presented on the market is that SolveigMM AVI Trimmer operates with AVI files of any video and audio content

SolveigMM AVI Trimmer features:

The trimmer engine is presented by a COM object
Supports any video content (DV, XviD, DivX, 3ivX, etc.)
Supports any audio content (MPEG-1, MPEG-2 layer 2,3, AC3, etc.)
Allows trimming AVI files contained VBR audio without synchronization loss
Supports AVI files of the size more then 2GB
Supports the OpenDML AVI file format extension
Supports the native DV AVI format (both Type 1 and Type 2 in Microsoft terms)
Performs the trimming process starting with K frame
Cutting off several portions of a movie at one time is allowed. You can get rid of all commercials in your movie in a couple of simple steps.

http://www.solveigmm.com/?Products&id=AVITrimmer

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Beta Testing / Re: MOre, more power & speed!

« on: April 11, 2006, 04:17:19 PM »

In the keyboard shortcuts list, I would add and PageUp\PageDown for many K frames movement (forwards\backwards) or at least a combination (Shift + Arrow)..

I believe that if the next version of Video Splitter makes all these features true & (most of all) keeps the LIGHTNING spees of it, your product will be the best possible AVI editor, simple, fast & just-do-it!


PS: Because I'm a marketing consultant, you might have to "push" your product (SolveigMM Video Splitter) a little bit in advertising in cyberspace, so that everyone will know what it can do & (mostly) how FAST it can do it... Say, "try to find a faster AVI editor... you won't!"

First of all thank you for the promotion suggestion  
You talk about PageUp / Page Down, you mean upon these calls the program should navigate not to a next K frame but though certain number.

Could you explain from a user point of view a usability of such a feature?

And do you want the part of movie the slider has to jump over should be adjustable?

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Beta Testing / SolveigMM Video Splitter 1.1 Beta (WMV/ASF support)

« on: April 11, 2006, 11:33:30 AM »

We are remember that you have already asked as abut this feature

There are no keys for frame-by-frame movement (or at least - if not keys - mouse wheel!). This is a big trouble for me, since I cannot make a down-to-1-frame-specification! This means low precision in cuttings... (my previous software - TMPGEnc XPress - has already this feature - give it a look)

In reality this is not the problem to add frame accuracy navigation.
But as you probably know the Video Splitter performs trimming task with K frame accuracy.

That means whatever frame in a video fragment you navigate an output (trimmed) fragment will be started with a K Frame.

By the way you can navigate by K Frames with Left/Right arrows

The full chortcut schedule is as follows:

Next K frame              - Right arrow
Previous K frame        - Left arrow
Play/Pause                 - Space
Set new marker          - Ctrl + M
Remove marker          - Delete
Clear all markers        - Ctrl + C
Select fragment          - Ctrl + S
Invert timeline            - Ctrl + I
Start splitting process  - Ctrl + T

Nevertheless we have got a user feedback that such a frame navigation would be handy even with K frame accuracy trimming.

So do you think so?

Now about a frame accuracy trimming feature. We are going to implement this feature. I suppose it will be added to Video Splitter within one or two months.
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Beta Testing / SolveigMM Video Splitter 1.1 Beta (WMV/ASF support)

« on: March 23, 2006, 04:23:01 PM »

Hello Robert,
Thank you for warm words of our software and detailed explanation.
Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.

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Beta Testing / SolveigMM Video Splitter 1.1 Beta (WMV/ASF support)

« on: March 22, 2006, 12:54:25 PM »

Hi,

I just bought SolveigMM Video Splitter 1.1 beta and have been using it to pretty good effect with WMV files. But I have a few questions which hopefully someone can answer.

First, I assume that it does not edit WMV files with what is called 'frame accuracy', but "k frame accuracy'. This leads me to ask what is a K frame?

Second, and following on from this, when I edit WMV files (or any compatible files for that matter) is it best if I edit at the K-frame points or can I just put the file on play and set the markers where I please?

Third. is this product going to be extended to mpeg1 file splitting as well? I would find that pretty useful.

thanks

Hello philebus,

First of all K Frames are Key ones. Video sequence encoded usually consists of groups of pictures (GOP). GOP consists of Key frame (that is first one in GOP) and delta frames. Key frame is encoded independently as a statical picture but delta frames are predicted from K frame and can't be decoded without K frame.

Thus to provide an user fast and a video quality lossless video trimming, the Video Splitter performs trimming tasks with K Frame accuracy.
That means that all output fragments will be started with K frame.

Second, and following on from this, when I edit WMV files (or any compatible files for that matter) is it best if I edit at the K-frame points or can I just put the file on play and set the markers where I please?

Actually for an usability the Video Splitter allow an user to set video positions to K Frames Only. That means that if you select fragments by markers you they already will be started with K Frame.

For now, jointly with Elecard, we are preparing MPEG-2 Frame Accuracy Editing solution that will be added as a feature both to a further version of SolveigMM Video Splitter and Elecard XMuxer.

As for MPEG-1 editing we could take such a feature into consideration but could you describe what do you need it for?