Re: [Hampshire] Video editing - 1st steps

2009/11/16 Hugo Mills <hugo@???>:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:27:33PM +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>> 2009/11/16 Rob Malpass <lug@???>:
>> > I need some advice on video editing software for Linux.   Can anybody
>> > recommend a good package?   I think I've spoken before on this list about a
>> > huge library of VHS I'm getting digitised.   Thankfully I've now managed to
>> > find a working solution.   Sadly it's not Linux based
>> > but I'm ending up with several 8Gb mpgs that I need to edit.
>> >
>>
>> DV format instead of MPEG2 would have been better.
>> When you edit MPEG2 you loose a bit of quality.
>> When you edit DV, you do not loose any quality.
>
>   ... unless you do GOP-level editing and your editor can handle a
> direct copy (as avidemux will do).
>
But the original poster wished to do a crop. That is not GOP level editing.