edting avi on Mac OSX like in Virtualdub

[puddle]

i've tried to look for an answer to this, but haven't found anything yet.

i have been taking DVD-RWs burned by by Philips TiVo unit, encoding the video with ffmpeg to .avi (using MPEG-4, mencoder) files. then i've been transferring the .avi files to my PC and editing out the commercials with VirtualDub.

is there a way to edit the .avi's and cut out the commercials on the Mac without having to use the PC at this stage?

i haven't had much success trying to edit the video before encoding to .avi, and the whole demuxing is more work than what i'm doing now.

[puddle]

wait....will QTP do this for me?

i'd easily spend $30 if it definitely will.

[WiseWeasel]

It will, but I'm not sure the resulting AVIs will play on a PC... Anyone?

[live4ever]

I assume the DVD recorder creates standard DVDs with mpeg2 files on them. First copy the vob files from the DVD-RW to your hard drive, open them up in MPEG Stream Clip (you need Apple QT Mpeg2 Component) cut the frames you don't want and save as a new mpeg file (this won't re-encode the video).

Next open the mpgs in ffmpegX and convert to mp4 or whatever.

[galactica]

they will, as long as you view them with the PC counterpart of Quicktime

[pants]

MPEG Stream Clip

is this a new ap? does it work pretty well?

[puddle]

MSC seems like a nice alternative method.
i'll try it out.

but it's good to know that QTP will let me edit as well.
ffmpeg has the benefit of allowing you to create a queue for encoding.

[puddle]

QTP takes my avi file, lets me cut out the commercials, but when i try to save it, it spits out a .mov file with no audio. i tried selecting the avi divx option, but then the program hangs as though it were trying to reencode.

is there a way to get QTP to simply do direct stream copy of an avi file without making it a .mov?

[WiseWeasel]

You could try the 'Movie to AVI' export option, instead of the Divx AVI one...