Editing MPEG2 files without re-encoding?

[dood]

I've got several editing programs that will accept MPEG2 files, but when I "create" the output file they always re-encode to whatever format I want (time consuming).

What program would you recommend to simply "cut" or "clip" or "trim" (remove commercials, etc) from a clean MPEG2 capture? As I recall, there used to be a Womble editor that did this without re-encoding the file??

Thanks for any help you can give.

[rcbax]

TMPGEnc
http://www.tmpgenc.com/

How to use cutting tool:
“File"
"MPeg Tools"
"Merge & Cut"
"Type"
Select "Mpeg-2 SVCD"
Click the "Add" button and add your file
Left click once on the file after it has been added so it is now in blue highlights.

Now click "edit"
position your brackets "{" move your time line to where you want to stop and click the "}" and click OK.
Click on "Output" to a file name that you want this portion of the file to be named as.
Now Click "Run"

[JJamez]

You're right about Womble, as long as you don't change any parameters, you can edit and save mpeg2 video without reencoding. It is supposedly frame-accurate, although I have experienced otherwise, but is much more accurate that TMPG. The more recent demo only works with mpeg1, but there is an older demo out there that will edit mpeg2 - sorry, I don't have a link.

TMPG will do it in a round-about way (as was mentioned)... You'd have to mark the scenes you want to keep, save them separately and then join them all into one file..

JJ

[JHebert]

Another option may be worth checking out is the new CyberLink PowerDirector 2.0.
It has a feature they call SVRT "Smart Video Rendering Technology" which is supposed to re-render only the edited parts instead of the entire video.
It is available in Standard version with capture and editing features including DV to MPEG encoder, and Pro version which adds VCD, SVCD, DVD authoring.
I believe there is a demo download available.
There is also DVD Toolbox from Vitec Multimedia which I believe can do MPEG editing without re-encoding but its expensive at around $300.

[SatStorm]

I used Womble's editor, just to find out that lipsync probs are common with this program. Also, in my DVD player, files cutted by this program is always showed as 16:9. It seems like Womble put something in the header of my mpeg 2 files, and the DVD player recornize those files as 16:9, while there are 4:3...
So, Tmpgenc still is the best choice for this job. On version 2.5 the mpeg tools work much better now.

[loudanddeep]

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Version 2.5?

I find only 2.02 on the website?

where is this 2.5?

tia

dp

[Roginator]

Does TMPGEnc do frame-accurate cuts now?

[Valnar]

The best frame-accurate, non-reencoding MPEG1&2 editor out is M2-Edit Pro, bar none. It's the only one that works, IMO.


Robert