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Carol Haynes:
"TMPGEnc MPEG Editor" is rather good (though it isn't free). The biggest pluses are that it allows you convert MPEG files for other uses (DVD, VCD etc) but best of all it can do lossess quick editing. If all you want to do is chop out bits it doesn't recode the file and only takes the time necessary to physically write the new MPEG file to disc. Really neat simple interface too.
Here are a couple of screen shots (click on them to see the full size versions):
Clip editing window - note you can add keyframes which is great for producing DVD chapter points:
video editing software
Output settings window:
video editing software
Sorry for the poor quality JPEGs but the PNG files I created were too large to upload.
patteo:
You might want to look at www.womble.com
The only one I tried was MPEG2VCR. But it has a more advanced version called MPEG Video Wizard
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Welcome to Womble Multimedia, home of the incredible video editing software package MPEG Video Wizard DVD, MPEG Video Wizard and MPEG2VCR! Our MPEG editing software is some of the fastest available. No other software offers no-delay scrubbing - that's right, imagine sliding the timeline bar and having no lag in video, even when editing a file over a network connection! (Hardware requirements apply.) Additionally, you can edit in native MPEG format and save without re-encoding. That is an incredible time saver! Other features include:
* Frame-accurate for all editing operations for MPEG-2 Program and Transport
* MPEG-2 variable bit rate and 3:2 pull down, and MPEG-2 DVD to VCD or SVCD conversion
* Video frame rate conversion and temporal noise reduction.
* MPEG audio editor supports sample rate conversion and mixing
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I find that it's most distinguishing features are the speed and saving without encoding which is an incredible time saver as he says.
Unfortunately it's not open source. At one point in time when I was trying it, sometime last year, after you have downloaded a trial and given your email, the author sent an email with a coupon code. If I remember it was something like 35% off. Not sure if he still does it.
He then had a rather active forum but there was this visitor claiming to be a customer who constantly flamed him and telling others to buy a competitive product. Personally I and others on the forum got quite upset with the flamer.
When I last visited his site I noticed that he has shut down his forum and has only an email address for support. He does reply when you email him.
I believe it's a very capable software and if you are looking for something fast, this may be it.
It's a pity about the user forum having to be shut down, but give it a try as I believe it is very capable based on what I tried.
Carol Haynes:
I have tried womble too, it is good but I didn't find the interface all that obvious.
jroad:
I needed a way to edit out videos imported over from my ReplayTV (like Tivo). After using a few different tools (revue, video redo, womble mpeg video wizard, I ended up purchasing the womble editor. One thing to look for in an MPEG editor is the ability to edit without having to re-encode. Womble, is one such tool.
Once you understand the shortcut keys, namely A,S,D (backward/speed/forward), I, O (mark in/out), spacebar (pause), and ctl-E (export to a clip), in combo with the mouse wheel (micro-forward/backward) you have frame accurate cuts very quickly. Updates come out about every 3 months or so and the support forum was removed, oh and it costs $99. But for me, and my requirements, it does the job well.
VideoRedo is also popular and less expensive with an active forum, so it's worth checking out, too. The above mentioned Revue is specifically for ReplayTV mpegs but it never got out of alpha and was buggy on my machine. Never tried VirtualDub because the process of using it with ReplayTV mpegs required more work (manual entry of the in/out points IIRC).
Carol Haynes:
I needed a way to edit out videos imported over from my ReplayTV (like Tivo). After using a few different tools (revue, video redo, womble mpeg video wizard, I ended up purchasing the womble editor. One thing to look for in an MPEG editor is the ability to edit without having to re-encode. Womble, is one such tool.
-jroad (February 18, 2006, 06:18 PM)
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That's why I ended up going for TMPGEnc MPEG Editor - it edits without the need for a complete recode and is frame accurate but only costs $48 compared to $99 for Womble. I also find the TMPGEnc products simplicity to use as the 3 step wizard based interface couldn't be made simpler. See http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tme.html
If you need to recode too then TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress does a very good job too (it is the full version of the free version of TMPGEnc) although it isn't fast but the quality is excellent and includes frame accurate editing.
All of the TMPGEnc products have free trial downloads too.
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