MPEG Editing

[savilash]

Hi There

Apologies if this post is in the wrong section.
I have an MPEG file which has parts that I want and parts that I don't want. Can anyone point me in the right direction towards an editor that will allow me to look "into" the file and cut out bits that I don't want ?

Thanking everyone in advance.

PS : Will also need to be pointed towards a guide for it to learn how to use the program.

[lark]

have you tried the search button?
how about cutterman?

regards
t :)

[CWR03]

Cuttermaran is nice, but you have to demux the audio first. If the files are MPEG-2 (It's amazing how infrequently people give that information in their questions) then Vidomi works well, and doesn't re-encode.

[video_magic]

You could get latest free version of TMPGEnc from here
http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_download.html

In TMPGEnc go to File - MPEG Tools - and click on Simple Demultiplexer tab.
Simple screen here. Load up your mpeg video and the two form-boxes underneath show you that your *.m1v (video stream) and *.mp2 (audio stream) will be saved. Click Run on this screen and when that's done you have finished with TMPGEnc.

Get MPLEX 2.0 (modified) from this website of 'Peter Cheat' (who sometimes posted on Doom9).
http://petercheat.host.sk/libav/

From the zip file you got extract the files somewhere.

Get Cuttermaran v1.63 (latest at the time of posting) from
http://www.cuttermaran.de/
And before you do anything here, notice that this program requires MS Dot Net version 1.1 which you should also follow the link on Cuttermarans download page to get. So you install Dot Net. Then probably restart your Windows and THEN install Cuttermaran.

When you have installed Cuttermaran and are running the program, go to
ACTIONS - Settings - Muxing - and choose an output path (for the files you will be working with). When you have done that then still on the muxing screen choose - CONFIGURE (next to where it says 'used Muxer'). Browse in the Mplex path to the Mplex executable that you got from Peter Cheat, and then 'OK' your way out of the couple of screens back to the main Cuttermaran screen.

Now in Cuttermaran all you have to do is click near the top left hand corner to select your *.m1v that you extracted with TMPGenc from your original mpeg, if you didn't fiddle with any renaming then your audio *.mp2 should also be loaded.

All you do now is play and pause (button near middle of the screen) and you also have a drag-progress bar underneath - which also has slow-motion back an forward arrows at the ends. Now you will notice a 'Cut In' and a 'Cut Out' button on the right hand side where you choose the start and end for selections of ranges of the video that you DO WANT to keep, you can only 'Cut In' and 'Cut Out' at certain frames though, which is where you use the slow-motion arrows on the progress bar until you are on an I or P frame which is where you are allowed to make cuts. when you have selected a range with a start and end using the cut-in and cut-out then you choose 'add range to cut list' button. So you can go through your video adding ranges you want to keep to this list: example - if you had a program that had advert breaks that you wanted to omit, and just have the rest of the program as one video minus the adverts, you would select ranges of the video excepting the sections of advert. Okay, when you have your range or list of ranges, then you choose the 'Cut Video/Audio' button on the right hand side, and follow the prompts
You should end up with 'cut' copies of your files (have cut in the name) plus your new mpeg video!

Of course you watch this video and see if you like it

:)

[savilash]

video_magic, thanks a lot M8. Did what you said and I have acheived what I was trying to. Thanks a million.