A lot of you guys have experience with mpeg2 editors; me, not so much. I have looked at Womble and VideoReDo and while the Womble interface was just plain weird it apparently produced bulletproof output. Plus, there were various tools (mux, demux, fix timecode, etc) in one of the pull-down menus.

I just finished a pretty good-sized DVD project that took 12 hours to render to an m2v file (which I import into DVD LabPro along with its matching ac3 file). After doing a final check, I discovered a typo in one of the graphics.

Rather than do another 12-hour render, I learned how to load the m2v file into Womble, split the file, moved the beginning of the split file back on the timeline, inserted a very short clip of the corrected render (3 seconds long), mated the split clip back, and rendered in Womble. Three minutes later, a new m2v file, which then went to DVD LabPro. Amazing. No need to ever re-render the entire timeline for isolated goofs.

Funny thing is I had the impression that Womble couldn't handle elementary files, and in fact if I tried the usual way of getting to the m2v file via the Open dialog, it refused to see it. But if I simply dragged and dropped the m2v file on the Womble timeline, all was well.

I wonder if VideoReDo or other mpeg2 editors work with m2v files?