computer editing

[photoman]

Ok, what do I do here. I am importing video into my computer using tha ATI all-in-wonder 128 (non pro)card and want to do a splice of a show and take out the commercials. I have done this already but the burner rejects the disc. I am importing the clip as an mpeg file and saving it that way. Then I go into mgi's video wave to do the edit. Now after doing the edit the clip is stored as an mpeg again. Is this compressing the mpeg twice and now letting it properly burn?? The only only other thing that I might try is to import the clip as a avi or something of that nature and then convert it to the mpeg. Could the double compression thing hurt the burning process?? Also, if I do the import as a big ntsc (I can't remember the size off the top of my head, think it is 740x480, dunno though) and when I go into video wave it shrinks it to a 352x240, should I import the clip as a 352x240?? This is the only software that I have in my computer (other than the nero5 that I downloaded for a months demo)to do the editing. thanks

[RaleighNC]

Is your clip insync after editing??

Try turning off s/vcd compliance when burning.

I tried using videowave/premiere/etc...now i frameserve. my ati suffers from framedrops so i can't cut perfectly. frameserving to tmpeg/lsx/cce is way faster than videowave.

fyi: u can't make a vid res larger from a small res. u can go down in picture size not up. IMO the encode will guess what the scene changes are giving u a blocky vid.