wots the best mpeg2 splitting program

[Sord_Fish]

i tryed tmpg and its rubbish!!
it only cuts the audio and keeps the video

[Sord_Fish]

sorted it!!
you dont need a program at all
just frameserve!!

[jarroyo]

True MPEG2 editors:

Womble MPEG2VCR - www.womble.com
nanoPeg editor - www.nanocosmos.de

I have limited experience with these, but the reports are that Womble is the best and does pretty good at keeping the a/v sync. It is not cheap though.

[adam]

Womble is pretty good, but I did run into sync problems every once in a while.

M2-Edit is probably the best program for non-linear mpeg2 editing, but you should avoid doing this type of editing at all costs. Its just too messy.

See, the problem with using cutting through frameserving is that your bitrate allocation won't be as effective, well unless you use CBR of course.

If you frameserve A to B, and B to C then it is analyzing those two parts separately, adjusting bitrate up and down per GOP to give you more efficient bitrate allocation. But say the first half of the clip has almost no movement, and the second half has alot of movement, and you encode both with the same avg bitrate. On the first one you have wasted bitrate, and on the second you have not given it enough. Try encoding the movie Glory and you will see what I mean.

Basically, the middle point of your movie in time, is not equal to what the middle of your movie in size should be. If you instead encode the whole clip, and then cut it in two equal parts, then you will have much better bitrate allocation because the encoder will be able to adjust bitrate up and down throughout your whole movie.

This is where I recommend bbmpeg. It cuts mpeg2 perfectly and guaratees compliance everytime.

[Sord_Fish]

well if thats the case on frameserving i'll give that a miss
and i'll have a fiddle with bbmpeg and see wot happens

thanks 4 the help

Sord_Fish

[adam]

There is a bbmpeg cutting guide on this site which pretty much explains it all. If you are running WinXP don't forget to install the bbmpeg patch first, just do a web search on it.

The easiest way to use it is to set the output size to 790MB if making a SVCD, and 795MB is making a VCD. The resulting mpgs will just fit on an 80 min cdr.