I need to capture from tv then edit out commercials then bur

[danman78]

I have the NVIDIA Personal Cinema - I really like it. It came with Intervideo's WINDVR - which does a great job of capturing video - i can capture DVD mpeg-2 and Mpeg-1 and set the resolution and bitrate to whatever I want. Now my question is after i am done I have an 800meg file that I have to edit. What is the best way to get this or any tv captured junk onto a VCD to play in a dvd player. I tried a few different things by the quality was really bad. I am really having issues editing. I am using MGI's Video wave with has built in ability for buring VCD's and SVCD's but I still dont know what the best format to capture is would be. Can anyone help.

[thenewboy]

Hi, I'm new to making vcd but had made a few very great quality. Is MGI a Dazzle product? If so, then I think you need to reencode your clip because (what I heard), many Dazzle products does not have the proper vcd encoding. Anyway, try capture your clip as DVD (mpeg2) format (if it supports) or the best quaility possible. Make sure you have space on your computer. Then, use TMPGEnc. and encode it to the proper vcd format. And last, use either CD creator 5 or Nero 5.5+ to burn your clip. Make sure you first burn the vcd onto a CD-RW for testing.

PS. If you have further question, you may want to look through the "How to" section on the left. That's what I did and it helped a lot. Good Luck, Jordan

[mijman]

When I record TV shows, I always watch them at the same time, and I save each block of program as a seperate file, thus removing commercials. Than again, I am capturing to AVI, so 20 minutes is my limit anyway. TMPGEnc is able to cut mpgs where you need them, and afterwards, paste them back together, sans commercials.

[idrci777]

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TMPGEnc is able to cut mpgs where you need them, and afterwards, paste them back together, sans commercials.

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My problem is how whenever I cut out commercials my audio goes out of Sync.. any1 know how to fix this?

[BxB]

Does the audio get out of sync during the cutting?

I wouldn't bother with pasting them back together. I'd just cut out the parts between commercials and save those as separate MPEGs, then burn all those MPEGs onto a VCD. They'll work like chapters. You might have a pause between one and the next, but it'll play in one continuous stream on the DVD player.

[kinneera]

If you can afford the disk space, capture in AVI. Then edit out the commercials in VirtualDub. This avoids the a/v sync problems with cutting after it's already in MPEG format.

[siaododo]

Here is my two cents worth. I have ATI AIW Capture Card. I would usually capture the entire TV program in Mpg 2 format. After that I would use DVD2AVI to frame serve the file to a format that TMpegEnc can read. I use DVD2AVI to cut the clip Framing Serving only the portions that I need. After all that is done, I use TmpegEnc to convert the clips to the format that I need (VCD, SVCD, SeVCD,...etc). If I am up to it, I can join all the clips together into one, or I simply tunr on the Menu Option in Nero and burn each clip into the menu.

[HillJack]

Capture the video with VirtualDub using it's "Multi-segment Capture" to enable capturing as much video as you have the disk space for (multiple files as one stream, no 4gb limit).

Edit out the commercials while in VirtualDub, "Save Processing Settings" only, no need to resave the entire thing.

Start up VirtualDub's Framserver mode and feed it to TMPGEnc (any version < 2.0) and let it pound away for a night.

Burn the resulting MPG with NERO and your set!

This method works 100% for me, everytime (I capture a half hour TV show every night, 6 times a week). Not a single sync-issue yet!