Searching simple MPEG editor just for cut, paste and delete parts of a mpeg movie

As the subject said: I am searching for a simple MPEG mvodie editor.
It should be able to handle cuts , pastes and deletes inside the movie.

Unfortunately with TMPGenc I am NOT able to delete chunks/parts inside a movie. Read: I would like to
leave the introduction and the final part at the end and remove something in between.
Furthermore TMPGenc does not allow me to position on an exact frame.

VirtualDubMPEG does allow this but requires to reencode the whole movie to avi.

On the other hand I do not need (want) such overhead with balancing, crossfading channel modelling ...
of those big video editing software packages.

Does someone know such a handy tool?

Carl

 

crossfading channel modelling ...

I use mpeg-vcr. I use it to cut out commercials from tv captures. Great for
that but i'm sure it could do more.
http://www.womble.com/index.shtml

 

Their Video Wizard 2003 is also great for this kind of work.
MPEGs can be edited with no demuxing or re-encoding.

Rick

 

Well, you can do it without any problem, but not in one step.
Dont expect too much! ;-)

Isnt this a general problem/feature of MPEG, that it organises
frames in groups?


H.



http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/ -- Sort of MPEG Video Playlist FAQ.

 

Correct. MPEG2 can only be edited at key-frames (every 18th frame?) In
order to edit at the exact frame you need to have an AVI file with a
codec like HuffYUV or MJPEG.

 

What mpeg-vcr probably does, if you wantto cut at a P- or B-frame, is
re-encoding just the few frames of the first (and may be last) GOP. It
involves some small degradation of quality, bust just for a few
frames.

 

crossfading channel modelling ...

If you are talking about a movie you intend to make
a DVD or Mini-DVD; have you tried making the cuts
during the author process? TMPGEnc DVD Author
allows you to make multiple cuts; as you say, they well
be on I frames. If your movie was commercially
produced, there should be transitions between scenes
which well greatly reduce the impact of not being able
to do frame accurate cuts.

Have you tried cutting everything except the part at the
end; saving that. Reloading the original "movie" and then
cutting everything from the start of the "bad" part through
the end. Then add/join the previously saved "End clip".

This is sorta the approach if you just have a splitter, and
use a separate joiner.

Any of the MPEG editing SW that claims "Smart Encoding"
capability (like the Womble products or CyberLink's PP)
can do frame accurate cuts with little re-encoding.

Luck;
Ken

 

Sounds like maybe you want to cut out some commecials. I do that all the
time with mpeg2 files I capture with Beyond TV software. The editor I use is
called Mpeg-vcr.

 

Thanks! I think MPEG1, that I am more familiar with, anyway, we can
put both into bla.mp4s with Ciscos open source MPEG4IP mp4creator,
is organised into "GOPs" too. One of the things you never touch in
the mpeg_encode Parameter file. 16? Such a well commented/explained
file is not a bad GUI, see also midi2cs.

We can put bla.mp3s into bla.mp4s as well, rtsp://bla/bla.mp4s with
Apples Darwin Streaming Server offer a lot, and I would like
the MPEG tools in TMPEGEnc to include something like mp4creator.
Its open source and Cisco will be happy to join forces.

Best, H.


http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/ -- StreamDown.zip etc.