Can anyone recommend an easy but powerful video editing software?

violentj · 07-24-2004,10:23 PM

Ok, I want to edit out commercials from some shows I copied over to my computer from Tivo and the only software I have is what came with my video capture unit is the Ulead software. It is okay but isn't a "logically" easy program, you know what I mean, one where you don't have to read the manual, you just launch it and know how it works. Maybe what I am looking for doesn't exist but what I need is something that lets me start the video, play it frame by frame and select a point (the start of the commercials) then select a second point (the end of the commercials) and click DELETE and it rewrites the video file sans that section. Or I can set all the delete points first and then hit PROCESS and it removes all and re-writes the file. Something really easy like that. Oh and the files are MPEG2. Can anyone recommend something like this? Thanks.

**thetieger** · 07-25-2004,05:30 AM

pinnacle studio did that, but was really buggy

**uns97** · 07-25-2004,08:04 AM

adobe primiere, ulead videostudio, ulead movie factory...all of them cost a lot, but if you're seriously in video editing these are recommended.

regards, Stephen

I do not know, but maybe virtualdub is also a possible solution, but I am not sure.

**agee** · 07-25-2004,04:14 PM

i haven't done a lot of editing but what file format are your movies in...avi?

**xiaNaix** · 07-25-2004,05:04 PM

Womble MPEG-VCR if you just want to edit out commercials or Womble MPEG Video Wizard if you want to do cuts and some minor transition effects. Both are great programs and I use them alot when editing stuff from my DVD recorder.

http://www.womble.com/products.htm

**homegrown** · 07-25-2004,06:07 PM

This is a good basic free video program. TMPGEnc

It just a plain jane convertor/editor though. No Fx...

http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tools...ist+tools#next

**MatthewDotTK** · 07-25-2004,06:18 PM

Ulead Videostudio 8.0. It's pricey, but you download a totally working demo (only restriction is time) from their site. I use it a lot, it's really easy to use and powerful.

violentj · 07-25-2004,09:08 PM

They are in MPEG2. I have Ulead Movie Studio but I don't like it. I think I might get Adobe Premiere.

**xiaNaix** · 07-26-2004,07:11 AM

Ugh! Don't bother with Premiere if all you want to do is cut commercials out of an MPEG-2 file. Use one of the Womble programs I recommended above. They can edit MPEG files WITHOUT re-encoding. Any other program is going to re-encode your movie and probably make it look like shit.

**thetieger** · 07-26-2004,08:48 AM

Originally Posted by xiaNaix

Ugh! Don't bother with Premiere if all you want to do is cut commercials out of an MPEG-2 file. Use one of the Womble programs I recommended above. They can edit MPEG files WITHOUT re-encoding. Any other program is going to re-encode your movie and probably make it look like shit.

Agreed, premiere is a bitch to use, I couldn't figure it out anyway

-Thetieger

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