What I'm wanting to do is editing TV programs extracted from the TiVo
using TyTools to put them on DVD (Nero is good to actually put them
there), and I'm looking for something to edit MPEG2 files.
Specifically, I want to be able to shift the sound relative to the
picture, because NTL are crap at sound synchronisation (this isn't the
recording, I've seen it happen 'live' with the sound being ahead of the
picture by a quarter of a second or more!). Being able to cut bits and
insert a second or so of black frames would be useful as well.

As may be inferred from the above, I'm not looking for an expensive
broadcast-quality editing suite, just something simple.

I also want to "try before I buy", because I need to make sure that the
program will read these particular files (Nero has no trouble, but WMP
doesn't like them)...

I've tried downloading Pinnacle's Studio 9 from their "Try it now!"
link, all 219MB of it (the first time it got to 95% and then bombed, the
second time it claims to have downloaded). But when I try to run the
executable it seems to do nothing, a few flickers of the HDD light but
no messages, nothing in Task Manager.

(Windows 2000, P4 2.4, 1GB RAM, 6+GB free on C:.)

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Chris C

"Chris Croughton" wrote

What I'm wanting to do is editing TV programs extracted from the TiVo
using TyTools to put them on DVD (Nero is good to actually put them
there), and I'm looking for something to edit MPEG2 files.
Specifically, I want to be able to shift the sound relative to the
picture, because NTL are crap at sound synchronisation (this isn't the
recording, I've seen it happen 'live' with the sound being ahead of the
picture by a quarter of a second or more!). Being able to cut bits and
insert a second or so of black frames would be useful as well.

As may be inferred from the above, I'm not looking for an expensive
broadcast-quality editing suite, just something simple.

I also want to "try before I buy", because I need to make sure that the
program will read these particular files (Nero has no trouble, but WMP
doesn't like them)...
Any ideas?

http://www.drdsystems.com/VideoReDo/index.html

VideoReDo- highly recommended: fully functional trial version available.
I use it to strip out adverts from DTTV recordings from my NovaT prior to
burning to DVD.
hth
Neil

"Gripper" wrote in message
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"Chris Croughton" wrote

What I'm wanting to do is editing TV programs extracted from the TiVo
using TyTools to put them on DVD (Nero is good to actually put them
there), and I'm looking for something to edit MPEG2 files.
Specifically, I want to be able to shift the sound relative to the
picture, because NTL are crap at sound synchronisation (this isn't the
recording, I've seen it happen 'live' with the sound being ahead of the
picture by a quarter of a second or more!). Being able to cut bits and
insert a second or so of black frames would be useful as well.

As may be inferred from the above, I'm not looking for an expensive
broadcast-quality editing suite, just something simple.

I also want to "try before I buy", because I need to make sure that the
program will read these particular files (Nero has no trouble, but WMP
doesn't like them)...
Any ideas?

http://www.drdsystems.com/VideoReDo/index.html

VideoReDo- highly recommended: fully functional trial version available.
I use it to strip out adverts from DTTV recordings from my NovaT prior to
burning to DVD.
hth
Neil


I recommend the same becuase it resynch's the audio automatically due to
crap DVB recordings from DVB cards.

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:57:35 +0000 (UTC), Gripper
wrote:

"Chris Croughton" wrote

What I'm wanting to do is editing TV programs extracted from the TiVo
using TyTools to put them on DVD (Nero is good to actually put them
there), and I'm looking for something to edit MPEG2 files.
Specifically, I want to be able to shift the sound relative to the
picture, because NTL are crap at sound synchronisation (this isn't the
recording, I've seen it happen 'live' with the sound being ahead of the
picture by a quarter of a second or more!). Being able to cut bits and
insert a second or so of black frames would be useful as well.

http://www.drdsystems.com/VideoReDo/index.html

VideoReDo- highly recommended: fully functional trial version available.
I use it to strip out adverts from DTTV recordings from my NovaT prior to
burning to DVD.

Thank you! Handles the UK Tivo format fine (looking at the options, I
suspect the problem with other programs is the over-long GOPs), adjusts
the audio sync on-the-fly, full control via the keyboard and mouse[1],
price comparable to that of other good-quality shareware (Noteworthy
Composer and nTrack, for example). The only thing I haven't been able
to make it do is to view the program with the cuts implemented (i.e. see
what it's like before committing the cuts).

[1] OK, /almost/ full control with the keyboard. I haven't worked out
how to switch panes in the help, or how to get to a previous cut to edit
it with the keyboard.

It's really fast at producing the output as well, about 4-5 minutes for
a 20 minute scene (I suspect it's limited by disk speed, CPU usage is
minimal while doing that).

I should have asked here before...

Thanks,

Chris C

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:44:59 -0000, John Russell
wrote:

"Gripper" wrote in message
...

http://www.drdsystems.com/VideoReDo/index.html

VideoReDo- highly recommended: fully functional trial version available.
I use it to strip out adverts from DTTV recordings from my NovaT prior to
burning to DVD.

I recommend the same becuase it resynch's the audio automatically due to
crap DVB recordings from DVB cards.

Some of the synch errors have to be at source. Up to 300ms error is the
largest I've resynched so far, but I'm pretty sure I have at least one
which is over half a second out (and voice before vision, which /really/
confuses the brain, we're wired that audio lags are OK because that
happens in the Real World(tm)).

Oh, and as I didn't mention in my other post -- two orders of magnitude
smaller to download than Pinnacle's one! WTF is in the Pinnacle one
which takes 220MB of download? And then wouldn't install?

Thanks, I'm definitely endorsing VideoReDo...

Chris C