FREE: Womble MPEG2-VCR

TLF wrote on 11/22/2009, 12:12 AM
Not sure if anyone's interested, but Womble MPEG-VCR is the Give Away of the Day over at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

From the Womble Website:
"The Womble MPEG2VCR was the precursor to the Womble MPEG Video Wizard, but loyal users still love it. It is a software video editor that performs all editing on MPEG data with frame accuracy. It supports all MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 bit streams, including MPEG-2 Transport streams for HDTV. Its major features are list below.

"Frame accurate editing: step forward and backward through your video, frame-by-frame, to find exactly the scene you want, or to cut out the ones you don't.

"Fastest scrubbing of any MPEG-2 editor: Scroll through your entire movie as fast as your mouse can drag the slider. Quickly find the scenes you want to keep, or the ones you want to cut.

"Fastest frame stepping of any MPEG-2 Editor. Move through your video frame-by-frame at the click of your mouse, or the press of a key. Makes it super easy to zero-in on exactly the desired frame to be edited.

"No re-encoding when editing DVD-compliant MPEG-2 captures from the latest USB/DVD capture boxes. When using these sources to create a movie for DVD burning, you will not have to wait for many hours while your movie is re-encoded. Instead, your edited video will be written back to disk as fast as any disk-to-disk copy operation."

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/22/2009, 6:37 AM
Womble MPEG2-VCR is a great little utility for cutting MPEG2 with no recompression. I have it and also MPEG Video Wizard and they have saved me hours of re-encoding when you do something like realize too late that there's a typo in the ending credits. ;-) (we've all been there).

I would be really cautions of Give Away of the Day. Their installer will try several times to install things that you don't want. Pay very, very close attention to what it's asking on each page of the installer before you click next. This is one installer that you want to read very carefully.

~jr
TLF wrote on 11/22/2009, 10:31 AM
Yes, I noticed that the installer wants to install more than the program you download...
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/22/2009, 11:23 AM
vegas 8 doesn't seem to re compress mpeg when I edit & render to it, is there an advantage of this app vs vegas 8 or newer (I know older versions always recompressed)?
JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/22/2009, 12:44 PM
> vegas 8 doesn't seem to re compress mpeg when I edit & render to it, is there an advantage of this app vs vegas 8 or newer (I know older versions always recompressed)?

Vegas will only do this if you can get the render template to match the source footage. So if you know exactly the format that you are editing and you have or can make your template match, then Vegas can do this. I love this feature about Vegas. I purchased Womble back in the Vegas 6 days.

If, however, you have MPEG files from some consumer camcorder and none of the Vegas templates match, you can go crazy trying to find the right combination of parameters to make the template work. With Womble MPEG2-VCR you can just tell it to use the same format (whatever that is) without actually having to know anything about the footage. It does the hard work for you.

Of course, Vegas Pro 9.0 places an equal sign (=) next to compatible templates so it takes some of the guesswork out but you still have to have a compatible template to start with.

~jr