New to this. Help with MPEG2 editing and capturing

[smesx]

I got myself a wintv2000 pvr expert so that i could record my boilermaker's football games. I have done the first two telivised games and edited with VirtualDubMod ( just cutting out the comercials) and then recompiled as an AVI then encoded back to mpeg2 with tmpgenc. I know im just killing the quality by doing all these conversions but i just cant seem to find a mpeg2 editor that i like.

I like Vdubs controlls with just using the arrows and alt to go through 50 frames at a time and then just home, end and delete to edit. I also like the fact that it is frame accurate. I would capture as an avi but the pvr program only has uncompressed and i dont have the HD space. I tried other programs and they didnt work for some reason (may be time to reinstall xp)

What do all you experts suggest i should do, i dont mind buying a program if it works well, I have ulead video studio and pinnicle right now(well my friend does).

THANKS
comp specs:
NF7-s AMD 2500+ @ 2.6ghz 512mb pc3200 80gig raptor+ 80 gig seagate i run xp pro

[daamon]

Hi smesx,

If you really must work in MPEG2, check out Womble MPEG-VCR - I've not used it personally, but I have seen a lot of people singing it's praises.

Or, with today's cost of hard drives, you could fork out for a bigger hard drive for capturing allowing you to capture to uncompressed AVI.

Or, try VirtualDub (the "Mod" might / should work too) for capturing to AVI but detailing it to use a codec (there a few free DV codecs: Panasonic DV Codec, Canopus DV Codec). if not VirtualDub, I think that Scenalyzer Live might be able to do it. I know the description says "capturing from DV" but I'm sure I've seen people using it in other ways. But, then again, I might be wrong.

The short of it is: see if there's other software that you can use to capture using the TV card to compressed AVI of your choice. That said, I'm surprised you can't gat the software that came with the card to capture to compressed AVI, but if you say so - that's a shame...

Hope that helps. Good luck...

[smesx]

the only avi capture option it has is uncompressed avi i wish there was some way to have that program compress it. Ive tried capturing with virtualdub and it just doesnt seem to want to work very well for me, ill mess with it a little bit tommorow.....

I wish there was a program with the exact interface as Vdub that could simply cut clips out of an Mpreg2 without recompressing.... anything like that out there?

[daamon]

Ive tried capturing with virtualdub and it just doesnt seem to want to work very well for me, ill mess with it a little bit tommorow.....

Install either of the DV codecs I mentioned above and then try compressing the AVI with VirtualDub using the DV codec.

I wish there was a program with the exact interface as Vdub that could simply cut clips out of an Mpreg2 without recompressing.... anything like that out there?

If you really must work in MPEG2, check out Womble MPEG-VCR - I've not used it personally, but I have seen a lot of people singing it's praises.

[ulapines]

VideoRedo is a great tool for cutting out the comercials:

http://www.videoredo.com/

[gshelley61]

Womble MPEG Video Wizard is what I use. Nice GUI, very fast, easy to use, frame accurate, does not re-encode except at the edit point if it is not at an I frame. No quality loss at all, and also edits AC3 audio (MPEG2 captured with most DVD recorders is Dolby Digital 2.0 sound). Plus, you get MPEG-VCR thrown in for free when you buy MVR.