MPEG Editing WITHOUT compression Created 17 years ago2006-07-28 10:26:02 UTC by alexb911 alexb911

Created 17 years ago2006-07-28 10:26:02 UTC by alexb911 alexb911

Posted 17 years ago2006-07-28 10:26:02 UTC Post #191894
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!
Posted 17 years ago2006-07-28 10:41:27 UTC Post #191895
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.
Posted 17 years ago2006-07-28 16:42:32 UTC Post #191932
I'm fairly sure you should be able to crop MPEG-2 files without re-encoding them, but I don't know how.
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