Re: Editing help please


>
> "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:tKGdnbR1J8I1S4HeRVn-pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Is there something wrong with the MPEG that you have?
>> If not then there is no good reason to have "recorded" your
>> analog TV signal as AVI, and a number of good ones not to.
>>
>> I would cut out the commercials with www.VideoReDo.com
>> and Author & Burn with TMPGEnc DVD Author (TDA)
>> www.tmpg-inc.com . Just put the different sizes in their own
>> track/title.
>>
>> Luck;
>> Ken
>>

"Richard Forester" <richard_forester(nospam)@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your help Ken. I used TMPGEnc to edit out the commercials and
> I will try to burn them to DVD as you suggested.
>
> The reason why I say I should have recorded to AVI is that I have seen
> this asserted many times: You should record and edit in AVI and only use
> MPEG-2 for your final files. I guess the idea here is that MPEG is
> compressed and it gets recompressed each time you edit. I am only
> repeating what I've seen. Please correct me if this is wrong.
>
> By the way, when I was using TMPGEnc MPEG Tools to cut out the commercials
> it took a very long time to multiplex. The original file was something
> like 2 hrs long and it took a few hours for the multiplex to be done. I
> did notice that the last 15% finished much quicker (only a few minutes).
> Is this normal?
>
> Richard
>
If you had used VideoReDo as I suggested it would have
taken seconds.

You don't "Burn" MPEG files to DVD, and I would never
suggest that you do so. You Author a DVD then burn the
authored DVD to a recordable disk. If you burn MPEG files
to a recordable DVD disk, it is as a data disk and you are just
putting the files in a storage media. Some people do this
because they have DVD Players that can play "Raw" MPEG,
and don't want a menu or the rest of the DVD structure.

If you are doing extensive image altering "editing" that effects
the majority of the captured video, then capturing to a low
compression format, like some of those that use the AVI
wrapper, is still a good idea. Capturing to a high compression
format like MPEG4, DivX, or Xvid; AVI, would be a bad
idea in that case.

If you are just doing frame accurate cuts, like removing
commercials, from material that has already been professionally
edited; MPEG is not a problem. Again, try VideoReDo and see.

Luck;
Ken



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