December 11th, 2008
Small Utilities – The right tool for the right job.
The phrase “The right tool for the right job” applies to software as well as working on projects around the house. If you’ve ever tried to take a nail out with pliers instead of the back end of a good hammer or tried to open a can with a knife instead of a can opener you can appreciate this.
I had to do some quick video edits recently and I was hard pressed to find something built into the Windows Media Player that made this as simple as “Save As”. The kind of edits I’m talking about are just as simple as saving out a portion of the time code as a separate movie.
If you look around for a little bit you will find a Windows utility called Windows Media Encoder which includes Media Encoder, File Editor, Profile Editor and Stream Editor. The File Editor portion of this is exactly the tool I was looking for. A really simple tool to save out portions of a WMV file.
The question that came to mind after I used the tool was, Why isn’t this part of the Windows Media install?
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