What program works for you?
I am copying episodes of AMC Walking Dead with a TV Wonder USB “card”.
The various editing programs I’ve tried lock up on hour long files.
It is easier to copy from the AT&T Uverse recorder to my HD/DVR, edit it, and then copy with the Wonder to a USB terabyte drive, but the takes three hours for each episode.
Which Windows MPG editor do you use and why?
Check out the free trial of Womble MPEG-VCR. Once you get the workflow down it’s very quick to cut commercials and it doesn’t have to re-encode the file.
Thanks, yoyodyne. I’ll try it out tonight.
Either the files are too large or 2 gigs isn’t enough to save the edit.
Darn.
adobe premiere pro and media encoder…
I have done what you are describing a bunch of times. I have a AverMedia PCI-e tuner and it also only records to an mpg file type. Which I hate because when I have to import it to Premiere Pro, it takes a very long time to index and all that stuff that it does to get ready to work with it…
Anyways, Usually a 1 Hour show at 1080i turns out alittle over 5gb for me. It takes Premiere Pro no more than 5 minutes to get ready to work with it. Albeit, I built my computer and know that it is a little faster than usual computers. I can guarantee that doing all this requires alot and good processing power.
After making cuts and adding titles and whatever I want to do to it. I export it to the encoder. I usually export it to H.264(mp4) just because I am familiar with it and I know its going to turn out good for the size, and precisely because the media encoder can give me a rough estimate of the final size.
For a 44 minute show. At at least 5mbps(CBR), it would take no more than 40 minutes for encoding to finish. That’s if nothing else is running on the computer and it is left alone. Otherwise it take less than 2 hours.
On a side note: Unfortunately I do not get AMC or else I would be recording this show.
And yes, I know premiere pro is not free…
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