I didn’t word my thoughts well, my bad. I didn’t mean to suggest issues, just that I prefer to use original files without further encoding so for me going back to the original rip to trim in the future would be simple. Sorry!
For this specific title, I made the transition as best I could and called it a day, but I saved the original two part files on a separate part of the drive in case I ever have the inclination and tools to redo it.
If it were technically easier (and less time consuming to do so), I would have...
MKVToolNix is a great tool but it’s not completely frame accurate when you try to make a cut. Even if you enter in the exact time stamp or numbered frame, it will move your cut to the nearest key frame, which may be before or after the point you’ve selected.
If you’re making a cut in a place...
I’m very much in that same boat. I like getting in an episode or two of something before bed as part of the wind down but when I was watching off the discs, I’d usually just work through one show at a time in order. Too much effort otherwise to do multiple shows, remember where I am with each of...
How well does that do with source files that have multiple proprietary audio tracks involved, like something with a DTS-HD MA 5.1 track and multiple Dolby Digital ones?
My experience is that it’s really difficult to do frame accurate cuts to already compressed/encoded files without putting it into an actual editing program like Final Cut or Premiere - which in and of itself isn’t really recommended because of the complexities of transcoding the material to a...