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   Last updated: December 02, 2009

Using SplitMe

When you launch SplitMe, you will see a menu window as shown below.  Click on a Toolbar button at the top, depending on the type of files you are going to work with.

1. SplitMovie

SplitMovie deals with video files.  After clicking on the SplitMovie button in the menu window, you should see a blank movie screen.  Click on the Import button to open a movie file.

Once a movie file is imported, SplitMe will show its file name at the top of the window and at the top of the sidebar.  Also shown at the sidebar are the width and the height of the movie.  Shown inside the box is the movie duration in total seconds.  If you hold the Mouse pointer long enough on the duration number, SplitMe will also display the movie duration in terms of time.  See below.

In order to split an imported movie file into multiple independent video clips, you need to set the number of seconds for each segment.  Enter a number in the editbox next to Segments in seconds.  SplitMe will automatically figure out how many subclips it should produce.  Then click on the Select button to set the destination of split files.  And?  That will be it.  Just click on the Split button.  And SplitMe will immediately start producing subclips.

2. SplitZip

Just as before, click on the Import button to open a zip file.  You can also choose Import under the File on the menu bar to open a file.

Next, you need to set a minimal segment size.  If you choose a size unit (KB, MB, GB, TB) and set a file size, SplitMe will find out how many subclips it will produce.  Remember that the minimal segment size must be larger than the smallest size of all files in the archive.  For example, if a zip archive contains at least one file that is larger than 6 MB, then you must set a mininal segment size bigger than this number.  If the mininal segment size that you have set is not large enough, then SplitMe will tell you which file is in your way.  Otherwise, again, SplitMe will tell you how many zip files it would produce.

Now, simply set the file destination and click on the Split Button.  Easy, huh!?

3. SplitImg

SplitMe can also work on disc images.  Unlike in SplitMovie and SplitZip, segment files that are created with SplitImg1 and SplitImg2 are not independent disc images.  So if you lose one of split files, you will not be able to recover the original disc image.  That is, you will lose the entire data.

Choose SplitImg1 to split a DMG file into segments in terms of the file size.  And use SplitImg2 if you want to split a disc image in equal size.  In this case, you need to specify the number of segments.