Darklord
27th November 2002, 03:39
Been playing around with various settings, capturing with a GeFroce4 Ti4600.
VirtualDub was giving me fits, looked choppy, then audio went all out of sync when I did a test and clipped a section of commercials out. I'll spend some more time in the VDub forum to figure it out, which isn't my question anyway......
I have a full 1.5gb file that I recorded digitally from DirecTV. InterVideo MPEG2 codec. I used the WinPVR utility that came with the GeForce card to capture it. I did a play back, the picture is as crisp and sharp as anything I could hope for. Audio is rock solid. Playback to my TV from the computer looks flawless.
So here is the question, I was told that MPEG2 files were a bitch to edit. I am looking at the possibility of purchasing M2 Edit for this as it claims to be frame accurate editing and VCDHelp has good things to say about it.
I was planning on recording to SVCD, but that would mean I would have to scale down this nice crisp video to fit into the 800mb size I would need to fit on a disc.
However I did buy a Sony DRU500A DVD-RW SO I'm thinking I could get 3 episodes per disc that way instead of reducing the quality of what I have.
Is my thinking flawed or is this a reasonable plan?
I presume I woudl use all the same software right?
VirtualDub was giving me fits, looked choppy, then audio went all out of sync when I did a test and clipped a section of commercials out. I'll spend some more time in the VDub forum to figure it out, which isn't my question anyway......
I have a full 1.5gb file that I recorded digitally from DirecTV. InterVideo MPEG2 codec. I used the WinPVR utility that came with the GeForce card to capture it. I did a play back, the picture is as crisp and sharp as anything I could hope for. Audio is rock solid. Playback to my TV from the computer looks flawless.
So here is the question, I was told that MPEG2 files were a bitch to edit. I am looking at the possibility of purchasing M2 Edit for this as it claims to be frame accurate editing and VCDHelp has good things to say about it.
I was planning on recording to SVCD, but that would mean I would have to scale down this nice crisp video to fit into the 800mb size I would need to fit on a disc.
However I did buy a Sony DRU500A DVD-RW SO I'm thinking I could get 3 episodes per disc that way instead of reducing the quality of what I have.
Is my thinking flawed or is this a reasonable plan?
I presume I woudl use all the same software right?