Tvshow comercials

[Bob12345]

Iam trying to find a way to cut commercials out of my favorite shows without saving each section of the show indivdually. I have found a program called NANOPEG i like the concept of the program, but i get about half way through the show resaving the file with out comercials and it dies i also tried vdub but saving to avi just seems to make me llose quality and i can 't deal with that my cable service is poor enough. Iif any one has any suggestions please let me know. I really need some help.

[MaDmiZe]

What are you originally saving the shows as....Mpg or what??
I use TMPG to cut and join all sorts of stuff....But its got to be in mpg.
Goto mpeg tools section...then cut/join is last tab.....

[Bob12345]

It is Mp2 i use an ati video recorder program.

[kitty]

VideoStudio 6 or if you can afford MediaStudio Pro 6.5 Both from ulead.com. Trial versions available

[Bob12345]

And they will both cut without saving individual files? then having to join them all?

[Bic]

I am also trying to delete the commercials. I recorded the show with the software that came with the ati wonder Ve. I saved it as a vcd ready file, which is mpeg. I tried to open it in TMPG but a box comes up and says it can't open it. I can delete the commercials using vdub but there's no save, only saveas avi. I tried to do that but it doesn't work. What am doing wrong? Can anyone help on this?

[agzz]

try vcdcutter

easy to use.

[Bic]

Where do you get vcd cutter?

[mikejl]

I have tried many editors for cutting out commercials, scenes from R rated movies turning them into G rated movies so my kids could watch them and MPEG1VCR http://www.womble.com/ is the best and fastest I have found. You just set the markin and markout of the section you want to remove and push the cut button. After you remove all the unwanted stuff push the record button. Name your file and push ok. 3 min. latter done.

[Bic]

mikejl,
Thanks I'm going to give this a try. It sounds good

[neomaine]

bob12345,

If you have TMPGenc you already have what you need. I literally use it everyday to cut out the commercials of my ATI captures.

Go to FILE-> MPGEG TOOLS-> CUT/MERGE. If your capturing as an VCD compliant MPEG (cbr/1150k/224audio), be sure to choose MPEG1-Video CD in the drop down box.

Then, ADD your mpg file, EDIT it by using '[' and ']' to choose your beginning and ending segment. Do the same thing for each segment around your commercials. When done, click on RUN and a couple of minutes later you have your VCD compliant capture sans commercials.

[LanceSteel]

What codec are you using for avi capturing? I capture exclusively to avi using picvideo's MJPEG codec set to a quality of 18 and the stream looks as good as if I was watching on TV. Try using a lossless codec when capturing to avi. With an avi file you can then use virtualdub to cut/paste.

[Bob12345]

neomaine does it do it with out making a bunch of smaller files b/c that was the only way i could figure it out

[agzz]

vcdcutter site:
http://vcdcutter.yeah.net/

[Ibme]

I capture TV Shows as DVD 8Mb/sec via an ATI AIW Radeon & MMC 7.6.
I end up with a 3.7GB file/hour TV show.
I use the ""Source Range"" option in TMPGenc to grab the Show and omit the commercials.
It encodes each segment into MPEG1 VCD (non)compliant files.
Yes, it encodes separate files (usually 5 or 6 per show), but I use the files as separate menu items when I burn the VCD w/Nero.
The separate Menu Items allow me Random Access to different parts of the show w/o having to use the GOTO button. You can use the NEXT button to get to the next segment directly.
If you don''t bother with setting up Menu Items, the VCD plays as one file, but the individual segments are still there, so the NEXT button will still work. I like having this convenience.
Just be sure to set the pause between segments to zero(0) seconds, Nero defaults to five(5) seconds. With zero pause you will never know there are five files on the disc instead of one, unless you choose to use the NEXT button.
If I intend to put two episodes on the same VCD, I will use TMPGenc to join the individual segments of a show. That way I will only have the two shows as menu items on the VCD, instead of each segment as a separate menu item.

[Bob12345]

That is cool Ibme i never thought of that idea i like that.

[Digitizer]

I capture exclusively to avi using picvideo's MJPEG codec set to a quality of 18 and the stream looks as good as if I was watching on TV. Try using a lossless codec when capturing to avi. With an avi file you can then use virtualdub to cut/paste.

Roger that! My solution exactly. I select "Direct stream copy" so MJPEG is not recompressed. MJPEG files stream mad-fast also. TMPEG sucks at cutting precision. That thing gives me headaches when trying to do that. It's almost like guess work! Not cool yo.

[Bob12345]

i feel your pain Digitizer that is why i am trying to find something like vdub the problem i have with direct stream copy on vdub is that i don't have enough key frames so when it cut in directstream copy it cuts it on key frames not where you set it.


Bob12345

[Nelson37]

Here is what I have used to make over 100 SVCD and CVD, w/excellent quality and perfect Audio synch, every time.
ATI MMC 7.6, 720x480, I-Frame only, 12 Mbit/s, cropped, quality 6.
TMPGenc - Demux Video, Flask - Extract Wave
DVD2AVI on Demuxed Video for D2V project file
Open D2V file in AVIsynth, IVTC, resize to 336x448, AddBorders to 352x480
open AVS file in VDUB, open WAVE - edit commercials, use Direct Stream Copy, Frameserve to CCE
TooLame on VDR file for audio
Pulldown.exe
BBMpeg to remux
VCDimager for BIN, Nero to burn
Perfect audio synch, quality excellent, trimmed to fit! I even have script files to automate the process!

Drawback - encoding is slow. XP1700 is running 12-14 hours on 2 hour movie.