VideoReDo owner passed away, product ceased, seeking alternatives ?

[Bridgy]

The end result that was desired should begin on the frame with the station logo (but including the missing video), and end sharply prior to the automotive show material.

Dam, i missed this bit, you want the station logo bit just before the reporter starts talking, i will try it again when i get home.

Not sure what you mean by including the missing video

[Marayong]

I've been away so haven't followed the exchange between Seeker & Bridgy, however I will toss one comment into the discussion and that is that recordings of broadcast media (whether it be FTA, satellite or whatever) are notoriously prone to errors, no matter what hardware you use to record them. One of the strengths of VRD was that it picked up these broadcast recording glitches and corrected them, giving you a summary of what was fixed once it had saved the edited file. This error correction was one of the features that a lot of work was put into when developing VRD. I don't know of another home video editing product that comes close to VRDs proficiency in detecting and correcting recording glitches - after all, the VRD software was actually "VideoReDo TVSuite", which shows it was primarily (?) designed for editing videos recorded off broadcast TV.

This ability will without question will lead to different results when editing & saving videos using other software, which may explain the differences Seeker & Bridgy are getting editing the same files using different software. And VRD aside, all other software will have their own means of detecting & correcting recording glitches (or none at all), thus their saved edits will all be different depending on their error correction features (or lack thereof).

As for windows (sorry, off track), the end of official support for Win10 next year is not the disaster MS and many would have you believe - your computer will not suddenly stop working, nor will your WIn10 machine suddenly be filled with malware. You'll miss new features (or mis-features) and yes, security updates, but the security holes can be patched by decent AV software and you can always subscribe to a non-MS windows patch service. I use 0Patch which ports all the latest MS security patches (win, office etc) to windows versions back to Win95 within 24 hours of the MS release. 0Patch also patches a lot more than just MS software & is cheaper than buying a new Win licence. I ran Win7 on my main pc up until a few months ago when the mobo died & I had to upgrade to Win10. I didn't have a single security breach.

I'll probably skip WIn11 on my main machine, if only because historically every 2nd version of windows is rubbish & the next version fixes the problems. That means Win10 fixed the issues with Win8 and Win12 will fix the issues with WIn11. MS groupies may disagree, but that good-bad cycle has so far held up with every home release version of windows since 1.0 (and yes, I had 1.0, which came on floppy disks, for those who remember what they were).

> Personally i think there are a lot of windows users who just don't know how to use it properly ...

Most computer users don't know how to use computers properly. Just ask any IT expert or repairer.

> .. or they try to play about with it and then have problems afterwards.

Only if they don't create system restore points before doing any tinkering. And/or have a backup clone or image.

If anyone wants details on 0Patch, please PM me since it's off topic. Or just search for it. They have free & paid versions.