AVIUtils - AVITool

Features

Native Win32 GUI application
Written & tested on Windows 7 (32-bit)
Compiles with either Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or Visual C++ Express 2008
Reads & writes .MFL (MultiAVCHD File List) project files
Input source is a directory/folder containing multiple .AVI files
[Optionally] creates AVI Synth .AVS script files
[Optionally] creates simple (hh:mm:ss.xxx Chapter NN) .CHP text files
[Optionally] creates Subtitle .SUB (hh:mm:ss filename) files
Open Source BSD License
Windows Template Library

Background

I needed a tool to help preprocess a bunch of folders containg 720p .AVI Source files. My goal was to create an AVCHD disk on DVD+R media containing 30+ titles using the excellent, free MultiAVCHD tool.

First step was to create AVI Synth script files to merge the short video clips into one stream. This step was to avoid joining the source files into a single .AVI file (so it appeared as a title in MultiAVCHD).

The second step was to (optionally) create .CHP files and import these into MultiAVCHD to retain chapter breaks in the final output DVD between clips. Since it was simple to add I also added the (optional) ability to write .SUB subtitle files containing the base filename at the start of each clip.

The final step was to create a MultiAVCHD simple File List .MFL file for the entire project. I also added a crude Size/Bitrate calculator to help determine the desired bitrate to feed to MultiAVCHD as well.

Hope you find this tool useful for processing your directories of .AVI files!

Screen Shot

Here is a picture of the Apple iTunes Coverflow-like menu on the final AVCHD Disk:

AVIUtils - AVITool

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Background

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