MPG Edit

psionman · Post by **psionman** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:42 am

Hi

As a newbie I need a bit of help on a lot of video stuff. Most of my projects are captured from TV directly to MPG. I'd love to be able to edit them, cut out leaders and trailers, join bits together etc.

Am I right in thinking the videostudio is not the tool for this?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:00 am

Yes VideoStudio is the correct tool for editing your video.
Here is a "How to" video created by Ulead.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:25 am

Can't think why you should think VideoStudio is not the tool to do your mpeg editing - it most definitely IS the programme you need.

If you wish to see another method of editing a video after you have captured it have a look at the 'Edit in Timeline' page on my website.

psionman · Post by **psionman** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:03 pm

BrianCee wrote:Can't think why you should think VideoStudio is not the tool to do your mpeg editing - it most definitely IS the programme you need.

Well, because I don't have a manual and everything seems to be s u c k it and see. ( I see you're not allowed to write "suck it" as two words on this forum)

But thanks for your encouragement guys. I'll have another go tonight

TDK1044 · Post by **TDK1044** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:59 pm

You can get a .pdf Adobe version of the user manual at the Ulead site.

Vincej · Post by **Vincej** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:43 pm

I am encouraged to see that VS9/10 is the tool to edit MPEGs. I have often read on these forums that editing MPEGs with VS can easily result in lip synch problems and that a person shoud be buying a dedicated MPeg editor like Womble or other such like.

I have just gone through a difficult time trying to get some MPEGs from PAL into NTSC and the 6 second lip synch problem all stemmed from a tinsy-winsy little edit I made at the beginning of the video which threw the whole time sych out.

Anyway I'm a newbie and keen to learn more. Advice given to me so far is do not edit them but get them into avi preferably at capture stage.

cheers Vince

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:14 pm

I think there are a few basic things to always keep in mind on this subject. Yes, as far as you can, always capture and edit in DV/AVI format and only then produce a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 for burning. But there will of course be situations where capture in DV/AVI format is not possible: you may be capturing from an analogue source using a capture device which does not allow capture to DV format or may allow capture to uncompressed AVI format -- but the latter produces unacceptably huge files (65GB per hour).

So lesson 2 is, if you capture in mpeg-2, try to ensure that the capture is in the same DVD-compatible format you will use to burn the final DVD.

And lesson 3 is, keep your editing of your mpeg-2 files to a minimum. And as far as possible, particularly in earlier versions of VS, avoid using Smart Render.

If you capture to mpeg-2, don't bother converting it to either DV or AVI format for editing, as this will not improve the quality -- in fact it may degrade it by the transcoding. And it will in any case have to be transcoded once again, with further possible degradation, to convert it back to mpeg-2 for burning.

As you have picked up from other threads, there is still some controversy over direct capture to mpeg-2 and subsequent editing of those mpeg-2 files. Some people have no problems; others do. A group of contributors have also been carrying out experiments with VS10 which indicate that VS10 may do these things better than previous versions, but again, early results still show there could be some problems.

So the ultimate lesson, I guess, is 's*u*c*k it and see'. If it works, well and good. If not, then it may pay to have an alternative program like Video ReDo or Womble to do your mpeg editing if or when necessary.