MPEG Editing WITHOUT compression Created 18 years ago2006-07-28 10:26:02 UTC by alexb911

I'm having trouble finding a good application that I can open an .MPEG2 File in, edit it (ie, cut on sections such as adverts) then save it again, but without having to re-compile it, or compress it.

I have a TV-capture card, which the videos I record I want 'perfect!'

So far, I've only come across two that could even be considered -

Able MPEG-VCR
Womble MPEG Editor

I have installed and tried both, however MPEG-VCR is extremely limited and Womble increases file size dramatically, and takes ages to save....

I 'edited' a 500mb MPEG2 file, saved it as the same format, and it was shorter, and it came out at 2.5GB!!!!!!

ABLE MPEG-VCR doesn't give you enough editing capabilities....

So, does any1 know of a good editing program, ....... not the usual sort, that doesn't take 4 hours to compile a damn 30min. clip, and won't end up bigger!!! I don't understand why the file should be sooo much larger, when I have cut the adverts already!!!

Tah muchly!

PS... btw, thanks every1 for all your help with my computer problems, its now running completely stable!

just recompress the video into something lossless like Huffyuv for editing, its a lot smaller than uncompressed. MPEG2 is an amazingly slow encoding format however, it takes many times longer to encode a film compared to a comparable divx/xvid codec. You also have to pay for it! I find virtualdubmod (NOT virtualdub) to be an adequate vid editing and compression program, combined with something cheap like Ulead Videostudio 9 (10 is out now). I think Ulead can do quite good mpeg2 editing, but I still recommend recompressing first.

For batch encoding MediaCoder (sourceforge proggy) is by far the best and free-est of any i've used.

I'm fairly sure you should be able to crop MPEG-2 files without re-encoding them, but I don't know how.