Split big miniDV video without any quality loss?

download and use a Lossless compression codec before you save or edit. This will keep your quality high until final render when you burn the DVD. Other compression methods are Lossy, quality will suffer the more you edit and save files.

here are 3 links that I found today.

Do you need to split it for storage reasons?

If not, just make several reference movies that use the existing full movie as their source. This is a very common practice and does not involve any additional exporting or compression. Your reference movies will be just a few Kb's in size with zero recompression.

All previous answers have mentioned exporting new files and even with 'lossless' compression you can still have changes occur to color, levels, etc. You'd have to use a 'none' codec but this will result in even larger files since your 5 gigs of footage is extremely compressed in dv format.

The only way to have absolutely zero change to the footage and existing file size is to make a Quicktime Reference Movie or similar reference format....

Try Cyberlink power director,it is easy to split,record your voice over the video,add some music and much more.....I think you can find a trial version on www.doanload.com

Good luck

import into any video editing program and divide into sections as you see fit. then export individual sections. easy and fast.

try VirtualDub, its free and makes the job

www.sourceforge.net

in the searchbox type virtualdub