Edit Personal VCR MPEG files with no re-compress

johnmeyer wrote on 4/2/2003, 1:38 PM

I capture TV programs on my computer using the ATI All-in-Wonder 8500DV card. These are captured directly in MPEG-2 format, with the audio listed in DVD Architect as "48,000 Hz, Stereo, MPEG Layer 2". I would like to edit out the commercials and make a DVD of the result. I have been using TMPGEnc to edit the MPEG files and then importing the result into ULead's MovieFactory which authors the DVD without recompressing the MPEG files. The authoring is fast, but the cutting in TMPGEnc is extremely time consuming.

I now have Vegas 4 and DVD Architect. Is there a way to import these MPEG-2 files and quickly create a DVD without having to recompress everything?

Thanks!

John

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 4/2/2003, 9:15 PM

Just to add to my last post, I've found that I can get the video to not re-compress, which is the big concern. I've also figured out that with this release of DVDA, I'm stuck having to re-encode the audio since it doesn't handle MPEG-1 audio, just AC3 and PCM.

blakice wrote on 4/2/2003, 11:25 PM

how do you get the video not to recompress

johnmeyer wrote on 4/5/2003, 9:42 AM

If the video files are encoded as a legal MPEG-2 stream, DVDA does not re-encode.

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 4/9/2003, 5:45 PM

HAVE A LOOK AT Power VCR that allows trimming and joining of files within the program, the files are also MPEG2 compliant, sound not PCM.