Video Capture / SVCD Questions

softwareguy

softwareguy

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I currently have MPEG captured to my HDD at SVCD standards. But I have a few questions.
1.) How should I "trim" the unwanted part of a movie? (For now, I would just need to trim the end of the movie, but I would also want to know what I should do to trim parts of a movie.) I need a simple software that could do this. Lightweight is good ;)

2.) I have a few MPEGs together on my HDD, but I am not sure if they will all fit in one CD. What should I do the split video files while leaving no blank space at the end for the first CD?

3.) Should I join the MPEGs together for a SVCD or should I write it in sessions?

4.) What standard should I use for normal VHS/VHSC tapes? VCD or SVCD?

5.) I currently own a "AdsTech DVD Xpress" and it seems that I could not get it to work with NeroVision. I could only capture using their CapWiz software. Anybody has a workaround?

P.S. I currently have Nero 6.3.0.0

Any help would be appreciated! :)
 
Blane

Blane

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You can use VirtualDub-MPEG2 to load the dat files into and edit from there.
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/
You can load your mpegs into nero one by one and check the size to see how many will fit on a disc. If you want to join them try it and then see if they fit on a disc, just make sure you keep your original mpegs in case they don't. They may end up being too large. I've never converted VHS/VHSC to VCD/SVCD but, SVCD will give you the best quality.
 
softwareguy

softwareguy

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Thanks Blane for your reply!
I loaded the .MPG file into VirtualDub MPEG2 for editing, but it seems that it would not save the file back as MPEG. It only has the option of having to an AVI. When I tried Video -> Direct Stream Copy and Save As AVI, I got the following error message:

So is there anyway I could save the edited MPEG back into my HDD without re-encoding it to AVI and takes tons of my HDD space? (Maybe another MPEG editor?)
And what should I suppose to do if the last MPEG does not fit on a single disc? (I want to accommodate the space on that first disc, but I am not sure how I could split the MPEG on the two CDs so that it would not leave blank space on the first SVCD.)
Thanks for the help! ;)
 
Blane

Blane

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OK, Then you'll have to try TMPGEnc. Go to File-mpeg tools- cut/join. Add your dat file there to clip the end. Set to mpeg-2 super video cd (vbr). Once loaded hit edit and clip your end from there. Set your output file with the browse and hit correct.
 
softwareguy

softwareguy

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TMPGEnc Problems

Yes, I have tried TMPGEnc and it doesn't go well.
TMPGEnc doesn't seem to display my video correctly while I am scrolling to see the part I want to cut/trim.
TMPGEnc doesn't have a feature that allows me the cut/trim multiple regions of my video files.
TMPGEnc lags my system while it is processing a 55 MB MPEG. (Is this normal?)
P.S. I have MPEG files (.MPG), not Video CD files (.DAT).
Almost 2000 posts... keep up the good work Blane.
Thanks for the reply! :)
 
softwareguy

softwareguy

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Thanks for the tutorial.
But as I said before, the scroll bar of TMPGEnc does not work for me.
I prefer the VirtualDub interface as I could easily scroll/move around the movie and delete frame anyway I like, but the problem with it is that it couldn't save the source format back. :(
 
Blane

Blane

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Do you have any other video editors? I looked around for a freeware editor but, didn't find one. TMPGEnc is the most widely used mpeg editor there is.
 
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celtic_druid

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Try Womble's MPEG-VCR (not freeware) or possibly MPEG2Cut (freeware).

For your next capture you might want to try capturing to a lossless AVI, then editing with AVISynth as you frameserve to CCE for a multi pass VBR SVCD encode.
 
softwareguy

softwareguy

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Thanks!

@Blane
No, I don't have any video editing software installed besides the ones you mentioned above. Thanks for your help and time for looking for a freeware video editor! :)

@celtic_druid
I used MPEG2Cut and its working very good. Thank you. The MPEG-VCR software also looks very good, I will try to see if it does the editing I need. However, I am not sure about the AVI part as I could only capture video with CapWiz. (The software that comes with the device.)

Well, thanks for everyone's time and help! :)
 
softwareguy

softwareguy

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Yes, MPEG2Cut works... Its very easy to use and could easily cut my video files. :)
But now just one more question, is there anyway I could do a white balance on a segment of the video?
Thanks once again everyone! ;)
 
Blane

Blane

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Isn't that more so used in still photography? If it can be done for your video your definitely going to find a more intensive video program.
 
softwareguy

softwareguy

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LOL... I really don't know, but the only thing I know is that Auto White balance could be done to images. (As you said.)
But only that don't know if they could be done with videos also. Any "intensive" video editing program you would recommend btw?
 
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GrofLuigi

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softwareguy said:
LOL... I really don't know, but the only thing I know is that Auto White balance could be done to images. (As you said.)
But only that don't know if they could be done with videos also. Any "intensive" video editing program you would recommend btw?
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From what I have seen, Vegas has some advanced features for working with color balance of the movie, but I don't think it can be done automatically. There are excellent tutorials about this on the web, for example:

/http://www.wideopenwest.com/%7ewvg/tutorial-menu.htm

But I personally use VirtualDub and AviSynth, which are freeware and probably best for simple editing and video manipulation. They both have some brightness and contrast correction commands/plugins which are very useful. I have just found what might help you:

/http://neuron2.net/whitebalance/whitebalance.html

And BTW, as many will tell you, MPEG format was not meant for editing. :)

GL
 
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celtic_druid

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@ricardo_medina, 9 posts and all pretty much thread hijacks. I really should ban you straight away for spamming. Anymore crap like that and I will.

Also if your question really isn't a follow on of the original thread. Please just start a new one and I do mean only one. One question = one thread.
 
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