Video edit program to remove commercials from recorded program

[lupi]

Looking for something preferably free and easy to use to cut out commercials from a recorded tv broadcast.

 

[Binky]

Look at dvrms toolbox + comskip or dvrms toolbox + showanalyzer. not easy to setup, but worth it. Also not free for more "advanced" (modern) features, but very cheap.

MCE buddy can do something like this too but i have only minimal experience with it.

 

[styrafoam]

Back when i had a tuner card I used to use this:

http://www.womble.com/products/vcr.html

Haven't used it in ages, but it was simple, only $19 and has a free trial.

 

[oynaz]

Adobe is giving Premiere CS2 away on their site (at least they make an .iso image an a serial key available)

 

[Binky]

Editing commercials with a manual video editor is crazy. How could you possibly have enough time or care enough about a single TV episode to want to do that?

There are automated solutions (discussed above) that do this with reasonable accuracy. Personally, I don't delete the commercials, I just have them marked then skip through them manually with a single button press on the remote. The accuracy is not 100% unless you spend a little time tuning it, which I don't, so you could possibly delete show content with automatic deletion of the commercials.

DVRMS toolbox can do a lot more, like transcode to other containers/codecs, if needed. It's very powerful but a little complicated.

 

[Mushkins]

Adobe is giving Premiere CS2 away on their site (at least they make an .iso image an a serial key available)

No, they are not giving it away. They took down the authentication servers and thus were legally obligated to make the software still available to the people who bought it. They chose to do this by putting up a site with the ISO download and a generic serial key.

This is *only a legal download for people who own the software*. If you don't already own a license, it is legally piracy to download and use that copy of CS2.

 

[pyonir]

Avidemux.

http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/download.html

 

[SKORPI0]

HDTVtoMPEG2

Been using this free program since 2005. :thumbsup:

 

[oynaz]

No, they are not giving it away. They took down the authentication servers and thus were legally obligated to make the software still available to the people who bought it. They chose to do this by putting up a site with the ISO download and a generic serial key.

This is *only a legal download for people who own the software*. If you don't already own a license, it is legally piracy to download and use that copy of CS2.

Ah, OK. They are not being very vocal about the distinction, though.