On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Hugo Mills wrote:
> There are two things here that I wouldn't recommend. The first is
> converting to AVI before editing, and the second is using Cinelerra.
>
> My recommendations would be to use a tool that simply rips the VOBs
> as the MPEG2s that they are, then edit as MPEGs, and *then* convert to
> another format if you want. For doing the editing, I would recommend a
> recent avidemux -- it will do editing, rescaling (if that's your
> thing), and format conversion to pretty much anything sane. If you are
> outputting to the same format (e.g. MPEG2 video) and simply cutting
> bits out, it won't touch the video stream, so you get perfect
> reproduction.
Thanks Hugo and others.
I'll be looking at those packages very soon. I don't think I've yet
installed avidemux and I've certainly not tried it.
ATB,
Gordon.
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