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It’s raining presentations this year, what with the CM department bent on making all of us seminar-savvy! And a seminar is a very techie thing to do. We have to make the slides in Powerpoint and present it using a LCD projector. Good friend Akhil was asking me for a video cutter software that he needs for his upcoming seminar which is on Vector-borne diseases. The software is needed to extract a specific portion of a video relevant to their topic. At first Virtualdub came into my mind. It is free, open-source and weighs a few kilobytes. But I have never used it and it is meant for more complicated editing purposes. I have a copy of Pinnacle Studio which is an industry standard full-fledged all-purpose video editing software and comes with a huge footprint - the setup comes in a full DVD. For the current need, I was looking for a program that just does the job - cut a video. After a bit of searching, I zeroed in on Ultra Video Splitter.

It supports many video formats, comes with many codecs and has an easy-to-use interface. The software even supports burning DVD or VCD images. On the con side, Settings is wrongly spelt in the menu, certainly not expected from a software that is priced at $25. Splitting a video was piece of cake. Just set the start and end points on the slider bar and click the split button and job is done a few seconds.

Key Features

• Split, cut or trim large video files into smaller clips in various format
• Supports AVI, Divx, XviD, MPEG, WMV, ASF, RM, MOV, 3GP, MP4, FLV and VCD SVCD bin/cue image
• Supports direct stream cut, without re-encode, very fast and without any quality loss
• All encoders/codec are built-in and any supported conversion can be done once you downloading the software
• Support “Drag and Drop” from Windows Explorer
• Custom define the output audio volume
• Add letterbox to keep the original aspect ratio
• Support large video file, even large then 2GB
• Simple GUI and very EASY to use
• Lifetime FREE Technical Support and FREE upgrade. Free trial download. 30 day money back guarantee

You can save the splitted output file in the following formats

• AVI, DivX, Xvid, Archos, iRiver, Creative Zen Vision
• MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD, SVCD, DVD compatible MPEG formats
• VCD, SVCD BIN/CUE Image, DVD Video files
• WMV, ASF
• MP4, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV
• 3GP, BlackBerry
• FLV