Just treated myself to a new Pc with Win Vista and a TV tuner. Using media centre I can record TV to my PC. I want to remove the ads etc from the beginning, middle and end of the recorded program and burn to DVD, so I bought Nero 8. Having spent many hours fiddling around I'm still none the wiser as to how to do this. Using Nero Vision I managed to trim the ads prior to the start of the program, but then the audio was out of sync. The manuals only explain what each function performs. I can't find a 'how to' anywhere until I found this forum Using my Panasonic hard-disk recorder it takes less than 5 mins to edit out all the ads. etc - It's so easy. Nero seems to be way over-complicated for such a simple task. Can any kind soul point me in the right direction please Thanks Pete
It's the little special dvr-ms wrapper that Microsoft uses for the mpeg2 stream that cause's this to be a chore; otherwise, any editor would suffice. Nerovision, in my experience, just sucks, especially in its Nero 8 incarnation. Nerovision has lots of problems with sync from time to time since it can't just seem to edit without messing with the stream. I use either VideoRedo or TMPGEnc Author for editing TV footage. Redo is about the easiest to use for just stripping the stream from the dvr-ms container and editing out commercials. It even has sort of an automated ad marking system. There is a free trial and if you are going to be doing a lot of this is worth the cost imo. TMPGEnc Author also works well and has the added bonus of menu making, etc. It also has a free trial. http://www.videoredo.com/en/index.htm?src=VRD2004-09-08 http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tda3.html There's also DVRMSToolBox for stripping the stream from dvrms and other tasks w/r to Media Center. guide: http://bluwiki.com/go/DVRMSToolbox_User_Guide software: http://bluwiki.com/go/DVRMSToolbox_User_Guide
Thanks laddyboy - I used MS movie maker in the end - it's already on the pc and is soooo easy to use! Best wishes Pete
