MPEG2VCR problems

[staresy]

Hi,
I am using this software for a couple of simple edits on a 3Gig .mpg file.
I just want to crop the start and end and also do a simple fade between scenes. This all works OK until I come to save the modified file. The save is VERY slow, and only gets to around 8%, followed by a "C++ runtime error". Has anyone seen this before?

I changed the options, video setting back to the default 8bit color res (I had set it to 24bit), and things seem to have improved alot.... does this just change the veiwer resolution, or the output res of the saved file?

Is 8 bit standard anyway, and in setting 24bit am I trying to do an up-convert which is just too much for my poor old PC?

Any help appreciated.

Rgds,
Steve

[draganong]

Check your available disk space on the temp and target disk drives.

/dragan

[FOO]

It may be trying to re-encode. Don't change any settings after
loading the file.
the 8 & 24 setting is for the display only.

What do you mean slow ? Mine takes about 5 minutes to do a movie

[staresy]

Thanks for the replies.

I am working in a HDD partition of 10G, so that should be OK.

By slow I mean 20 minutes t get 8% through a 3G file, then a crash!

The only setting I have changes is 8 to 24, and as you say, I suspect it is trying to re-encode. If it is only for the PC display I'll put it back to 8. I did this this morning and left it running and it seemed much better..... haven't been back to check final result yet tho!

[SatStorm]

Mpeg2VCR is the best mpeg 2 cutter and cropper, but it is also very buggy...

Don't change anything on the program's set up. Re-install if neccessary to get it to defaults. Any change you do, might crash it or make it work in a total different way that it is suppose to.

Other bug it has (mostly on amds), is when you wish to cut and "record" small segments from a big mpeg 2 file: After the first "recording", you loose the audio on the source file and you have to re-open it to have audio back.
Solution: You copy on memory (on the left white vertical bar), and you drag and drop from there the clips you wish to "record" to new files.

And imagine, version 3.14 is far better version 3.11 and 3.10 (I use to work with some time ago...).