Edit out commercials from AVI or MPG?

[mikewg]

If I capture a TV show into an AVI file... and want to edit out the commercials, should I edit out the commercials before or after converting the AVI to an MPG?

Also, what is the largest filesize an AVI can be? Can I record a 10 Gig AVI file, then later convert that to an MPG?

[mikewg]

I figured out the question about the limitation of file sizes of AVIs, but I still am not sure at what stage I should do my editing. Thanks!

[mijman]

I always edit out the commercials WHILE I am converting. I set the frame range up to the point where the commercials start, and exclude them completely. (Of course, I don't record commercials at all, but they start for a few frames)
Make seperate mpgs of the segments, and if you really want to, you can join the segments later.

[lemmy999]

I capture the entire show in Vdub, edit out the commericals and then frameserve to TMPGEnc. NEVER wait until you have it in MPEG to edit. I accidentally did that once and it was the biggest PITA of anything I have done with (S)VCD so far.

[Betamax]

I start capturing a few seconds before the start of the show and continuesly until a few seconds after the show.
Then I use VDub to cut out the commercials.
Before I feed it to TMPGenc, I first wanna to check the audio. So I save the audio to a seperate WAVe file and will edit it using Sound Forge Gold (the best..?) because you could get enoying ticks of each start of a commercial-part (which you've cut out) because the audio not always follow the frames. So those ticks I mute (not cutting away, it will make the video/audio desynchronised).
Then save it and save it back to the video into a new avi file. This final avi, I will feed to TMPGenc which gives me a nice peace of MPeG.