Hi, I am a newbie to video editing and I would appreciate some help from the experts here. I started using MPEG Video Wizard and it is a great piece of software for editing mpgs. I am a little unclear as to how it works though. When I have compiled my clips, and create a new file, is the video content re-encoded or resampled ? Also, if I join together two clips with differnt compressions, how does it know the settings for re-encoding?? I notice that if I use identicle property mpgs, there seems to be no degradation in quality. Please explain to me a little more.
If your material uses the same bitrate, Womble MPEG Video Wizard will stick with it. That's why I like it. I'm not 100% sure how it choses bitrate with different stuff since I only use it for editing my own video which is recorded at a specific bitrate, but it seems to consistently want to use the bitrate of the first clip in the timeline. Ditto for audio though changing the audio to Mp3 is a good trick to free up extra space, so I often end up re-encoding that anyway. But if you want MPEG Video Wizard let you know, just drag two different clips recorded at different bitrates, making a note of what you drag in first, and it's encoding scheme, and then click "DVD". On the V-A graph, whatever's in red is to be re-encoded. Click the "encoder" button to find the settings Womble will target.
