Problem editing dvr-ms files from windows media center

[justinstrack]

What program would be good to use to cut out sections of a video I recorded. Right now I am trying "Avidemux."

I like how the video is when it is recorded the motion is smooth. When I edit it shows "lines" when an object is in motion.

How do I edit my windows media center (.dvr-ms) files so they would look like as if I just recorded them?

Note: I might of posted something like this not so long ago.

Thank you for your replies.

[guns1inger]

What you are seeing is interlace lines. This is because the video you recorded is interlaced. These are meant to be there, but are not visible when viewing back on a television or player that deinterlaces on the fly. You want to keep the files interlaced in most cases, even if it does look ugly when editing.

[mh2360]

I like how the video is when it is recorded the motion is smooth. When I edit it shows "lines" when an object is in motion.

This is most likely because the source is interlaced, what I usually do is to convert the video to AVI (XviD), (making sure I deinterlace it), then it's just a very simple task to edit it using Virtualdub.

Of course, that's no good if you want your video to remain in DVR-MS format.

[justinstrack]

Thank you for the replies. I understand a lot better now.

mh2360, what program do you use to covert them to avi (xvid)?

[mh2360]

I use Xvid4psp, which automatically takes care of any deinterlacing.

I set the profile to "AVI Hardware" and the video to "2 Pass Size", setting the size to about half the size of the DVR-MS file, since XviD encoding is far more efficient than MPEG2.

If your DVR-MS file has AC3 audio then you can set the audio in Xvid4psp to "copy" otherwise select AC3 192k or MP3.