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[Just Me]

What's a good free software program that will cut out TV commercials from a
digitally recorded TV movie (mpeg-2 format)?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Just Me

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:45:59 GMT) it happened "Just Me"
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[Just Me]

Thanks. I'm running Windows XP SP2. I'm finding out slowly that a free
program that will do this may not be available anywhere and a pay program
may not be available now either.

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[Billy Joe]

[Jan Panteltje]

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[Old Bugger]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:45:59 GMT, "Just Me" <theclient@hotmail.com> wrote:

[Netmask]

Not sure about any free programs other than 'Cutterman' but VideoRedo and
Womble work just fine as do more upmarket programs like Vegas etc.

If you have any sound sync problems with either I would use ProjectX first
(free program) to demux the original mpeg into separate sound and video
files, this process also eliminates any other information that may be
contained within the file.

Then lay these two tracks into say Womble, find the first commercial break,
insert a split command, scroll on to the resumption of the program, insert
another split then delete the commercial section. You can set up markers and
automate the process but to get used to it I would follow the manual
process.


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[Penster]

If you are converting your programs to divx use Virtualdub-MPEG2 . Find it
on:
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/
You load your mpeg2 program, select the beginning & end of each commercial
break & press delete. For the final version, you set your beginning & end of
the program and convert it. It does what you ask very well.
Penster
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[Just Me]

It looks like the best solution is to pay $50 for the Video Re Do program or
Womble for $99.

As an option, I've discovered that the Nero Vision program, that comes free
with my DVD player, allows the user to easily put in chapters into a mpeg 2
file such as a TV movie. The idea there is to put all the commercials into
their own chapters that can quickly be skipped by pressing Next Chapter on
your DVD player remote control. I'm burning a disc now and will see what
happens. Thanks.

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[newbie]

If you are trying to do this without recoding, I think you might be
able to use TMPGENC's "cut and merge" tool from the MPEG Tools
menu item.

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:45:59 GMT, "Just Me" <theclient@hotmail.com>
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[DontHaveOne]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 16:45:59 GMT, "Just Me" <theclient@hotmail.com>
wrote:

[Just Me]

I have tried that and have that program. It works OK but takes awhile to do
and is a little tedious.

But I just found out that Nero Vision will accept an mpeg 2 from a capture
device that hasn't even been rendered. You just capture and then burn using
Nero Vision. The only problem is that Nero Vision does a transcoding step
that reduces the file by about 25% and probably reduces the quality by that
much. I've been setting up my Chapters so that I can skip the set of
commercials as soon as they start by pressing Next.

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