How to do basic editing on .rm files

- July 17, 2003 @ 2:43 pm · Filed under Random

This is a boring documentation post!

If you want to clip part of a Real Media file from a larger file (or make changes to the Title, etc. meta-information) you have to use a command-line utility which is provided with RealProducer. This is called rmeditor.exe, and it is located in the same directory as Real Producer itself. Here’s an example of taking a minute-long chunk out of the middle of a .rm file (on a CD-ROM in this example) and making it into a new clip:

1) Open a command line (Start menu -> Run… -> cmd)
2) “C:\Program Files\Real\RealProducerPlus\rmeditor.exe” -i d:\input_filename.rm -o output_filename.rm -s 0:0:3:2.20 -e 0:0:4:2.20

The numbers after -s (“start”) and -e (“end”) are times, expressed as day:hour:minute:second.millisecond. And that’s it! A minute-long file named output_filename.rm will appear in the directory you ran the command in. This command can be used to join different .rm files together, and other tricks as well – see Real’s documentation for more details.

1 Comment

  1. Hal Roberts

    July 17, 2003 @ 6:33 pm

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    There’s a gui version of the tool as well included somewhere in the RealProducerPlus directory. You can also start the gui tool by starting up the real producer application and choosing something like ‘Edit File…’ from the File menu.

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