Video editing advice

[imported_jediknight]

(Please note that recording TV shows and storing the video on DVD is perfectly legal where I live.. just to get that out of the way.)

So I purchased a TV Wonder Pro a week or so ago, and have captured some TV shows, which I want to edit (remove commercials and such..) and store onto DVD. Problem is, I really don't know how to do this. Tried to use Adobe Premiere (v6), with dismal results in the resulting video (I'm probably doing something wrong..)

Anyone know how I can do this? I captured the video as "DVD quality" mpeg-2.

 

[Mik3y]

use windows movie maker. it's really simple for what you intend on doing. its a free program that comes with microsoft's xp. if you dont already have it, do a windows update. 🙂

 

[imported_jediknight]

I thought Windows Movie Maker will only encode to .wmv, though? I need mpeg-2 for DVD, I believe..

 

[Mik3y]

oh ya, my bad. i forgot about that. hum...all i can think of is premiere, but its a complicated program and i'm still an amateur at it.

 

[imported_jediknight]

Hmm.. it appears it will allow output to .AVI, which - if I've got my video formats straight - should not suffer any losses converting to mpeg-2 (I'd just need an encoder for it..).

Problem is.. WMM crashes when I try to do ANYTHING:
- Adding more than one clip at a time
- Creating a movie (in any format..)

Something is seriously f*ed up with that software..
and it doesn't appear that you can download updates unless you install SP2 (which I'm not going to do just yet). Arg.

 

[bamacre]

You can use VirtualDub (free).

Just use the HOME and END keys to select and delete scenes (commercials). You can export them to .avi and use whatever to get them back to mpeg2.