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lynchesque
11th February 2004, 06:34
Ok, now this has been a thorn on my side and I've been trying to solve this for hours and hours now. I have a dvd-r recorder and I wanted to back up one of my laserdiscs, now those of you who are unfimiliar with Ld's they have to be flipped over half way through, so what I decided to do was let the recorder keep recording even when I was flipping the LD, thus recording about 35 seconds of black and Blue screen.

So after I finished with the movie, I open it up in TMPGEnc for menues and such. When i come accross to editing in the program i think its nice and easy, i just mark in and out the part i want gone and cut, simple right. Not quite so. After I author my freshly edited DVD and burn to a DVD-R I notice that while I am watching it, that when it comes to the part where I cut out, there is a little skip, the transition is not smooth, I want a perfect copy and I rhough no big deal, but I can't seem to find a program that fits my needs.

The "cut" part is about 3 quarters through VOB2 so I tried Chopper XP but found that I can't cut out pieces, so if I want the part gone I am left with two VOBs for that one. So what should I do?

To sum it up I just want to edit out that 30 seconds of blank screen with no noticible blip while watching the movie. Also I realize I could convert the file to mpeg or AVI but I don't think/hope that would be necesary. I guess what I'm looking for is a good VOB editer. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP.

Wilbert
11th February 2004, 10:55
Moved the thread to this forum.

Btw, please, don't cross post!

lakedude
11th February 2004, 13:18
let the recorder keep recording What recorder? A capture device? Which one and what editing software came with it?

Can you go frame by frame to see what is causing the blip? Is it audio or video that skips? It is possible that the original 2 halves are not perfect and no software will be able to join them perfect smooth. I normally use Virtual Dub for editing to lenght but I don't know if VD works on VOBs or if it would help. Perhaps the skip comes from a repeat of certain frames? Or does it come from missing frames or blank frames? Are your VOBs MPEG1 or MPEG2 streams? Other? I think VD will do MPEG1 stock and VD-mod will do MPEG2 as well. I'll check while you supply more info.