newbie questions

[rpschade]

hai i'm a newbie
i have a lot of (self-made) mpeg-movies (holiday).
I want to edit these movies (ie: merge, cut, rotate etc).
Which program would you recommend?
I am on the apple-platform.
Should i transform the movies into another format?

thanks for your help

roger
netherlands

[cooljoe666]

I have never owned a MAC but has checked it out in a local pc store and I must say it is awesome. I have see various posts about using I-Movie alot.

[rpschade]

Yes

imovie i supposed to be very good. Unfortunately, it is (to my knowledge) not possible to import mpeg movies in that program.

therefore i am in need for another solution...

[daamon]

Hi rpschade,

I've seen mention of a program called Womble that can successfully edit mpeg's - though I don't know if it can be used on an Apple. I don't know where you can get it from though - just seen it mentioned. There is another reliable one, but can't rememeber the name.

I've also seen regular mention that editing mpeg's (excluding the above 2 apps) is tricky and often leads to a/v synch problems. Common consensus seems to be edit in AVI and then encode finished article to mpeg.

Hope that helps... Good luck.

[Craig Tucker]

I have moved this to the Mac video forum as you are likely to get more help here.

[Thargok]

MPEGs are hard to work with because of the audio codec and the way they are multiplexed. Somebody will tell you the programs to use in a couple of hours (and hopefully they will have gotten some sleep)

[tgpo]

I'm not aware of any programs that will allow you to edit the mpeg file directly. One way would be to demux the mpeg into streams. Convert the video to .mov and the audio to .aiff. Then import both of them into FInal Cut Pro. It allows you to edit, cut, crop, rotate, etc. You can then export back to .mov and author as an mpeg again.

[rpschade]

alright i understand that i will not get any further with movies in the mpeg format. Are there any suggestions about which program i should use to convert the files. What format is avi exactly?

Final cut pro is a very expensive program, are there less expensive options?

[tgpo]

alright i understand that i will not get any further with movies in the mpeg format. Are there any suggestions about which program i should use to convert the files.

MissingMPEGTools comes to mind

What format is avi exactly?

Not to sound smart, but it's AVI format

Final cut pro is a very expensive program, are there less expensive options?

My brother has a program that roates video and it was only $10 i believe. I'll post it when I get home