MPEG2 Video Editor

[Mole]

Anybody knows any easy to use MPEG2 editor?

I've encoded TV shows in MPEG2 format and needs to edit out the comercials.

VirtualDub doesn't seems to support MPEG2 video.

It'd be a plus if it could edit with frame to frame accuracy.

[ivan_alias]

Not sure about that, but you could convert it to a lossless avi like huffyuv and edit it that way.

I'ms ure someone will know about editing mpeg2 though.

[cofferscuffs]

Use TMPGEnc (MPEG Tools in the menu...) but it's not accurate (can be like 5 frames out)... have fun!

[smiller667]

Try m2-edit ... not sure if it is precise to the frame.

[cofferscuffs]

I dont think any are to be honest unless you convert them to avi then convert back to mpeg2, but that would cause quality loss :(

[Mole]

Yeah, I know about TMPGEnc, just wondered if there's any other editor.

What util would I need to use to convert it to AVI then?

[cofferscuffs]

actually you could use an avs script to open the mpeg2 file in virtualdub, then cut frames in there and frameserve from there into cce or tmpgenc... but that would still cause quality loss...

[ppera2]

When source has delta frames, you can not edit and cut it at every frame of course.

But there is workaround for it. You need to cut it for example with TMPGenc with it's accuracy and then recompress those frames what are to the next keyframe with VDub for example. After that merge it.


Little more work... I don't know is there any program which can do it automatically.

[Mole]

BTW, anybody know of any util which will allow me to open the MPEG2 file and convert it to AVI with DivX5 codec?

[ppera2]

DVD2AVI, TMPGenc....

[Mole]

Hm, both DVD2AVI and TMPGenc can't encode files into say DivX5, can it?

As far as I know, it'd have to go through VFAPI right?

Aren't there any util which can open an MPEG2 file and save it as DivX5 directly?

[ppera2]

Mole, please try it before repeat here your question....

[auenf]

if you want to edit mpeg2, look at ulead media studio 6.

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[bb]

If you have a recorded TV show the format might be a PVA file. If this is the case you should try PVAcut. This cute software can cut at GOPs only (no frame-accurate cutting).

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