cyrnel

Womble has many options. It's likely you exported to workfiles or MPEG-2. Better to avoid that and re-encoding steps (avoid red in the export details window) and clip the raw streams.

Edit: Same goes for virtualdub. It only works on avi files, but does a good job. In the Video menu, direct stream copy instead of any of the processing modes. The difference is big.

It's tough to guide you without knowing the stream types. Did you try gspot or VideoInspector? Can you tell us exactly what's in the files? Video and audio CoDecs, maybe video FPS too. Some tools need extra steps if it's unusual, and there are some weird files floating around.

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