MPEG1 in Premiere or VirtualDUB?

[procrastination]

I can import MPEG 1 into Premiere, bit it is really tough to "smoothly" edit the file. My question is this. I have figured out that editing in VDUB is really easy (as far as removing comercials) but I would rather not have to worry about exporting to AVI, and then BACK to MPEG.

Is there a way around all this?

thanks

PRO

[TheNob]

Try frameserving from VDub. That way you won't have to save to avi before converting to mpeg.

https://www.videohelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm

[bunyip]

Agreed - VirtualDub is the best option if your source is an AVI, however if the source is already MPG using Vdub means that you need to re-encode the file to produce the final edited MPG file.

If your source is already MPEG and all you want to do is cut the commercials then might I suggest you use the 'Merge & Cut' option in TMPGenc - this will not re-encode the original MPEG-1 file.

(Raise your hand if you need more information).