[mythtv-users] Commercial cutting & DVD burning

[Praveen Shenoy]

Thanks to everybody for the replies. David, thx for the steps. A few 
question though. I installed avidemux as you suggested and opned one of 
my 30 minute clips. Maybe I missed something or didn't do it right. Here 
is what I came across....
I also read some docs about cutting. The only way I could do was jump to 
the next black frame or the keyframe and then having marked the point a 
mark point b and cut it. But clicking on find next black frame, it kind 
of was going thru the video at the same pace as it would play, maybe a 
little faster but definitely did not finish in 5 mins. So, I am thinking 
I am missing something. Are you using the cutlist when you start 
avidemux? Can you give me some more info on cutting the clips once I 
open it in avidemux?

Thx a lot
Praveen

David wrote:

> It's a doddle to do if you have a PVR350
>
> I have about 60+ DVDs of Farscape, Stargate, Buffy, Films etc etc
> All have proper DVD menus, no commercials, proper printed covers
> All done 100% in linux
> Mostly by my non-linuxy wife (who now enjoys linux and gimp)
>
> Basically:
> * record using DVD profile on PVRx50
> * move the nuv file to your editing space
> * use avidemux (2.36, not 2.38) to index and cut out commercials (5 mins)
> * optionally use avidemux to save screenshots (press 'j') (1 min - 20 
> mins depending on fussiness)
> * save as mpeg (A+V) into show.VOB (5 mins)
> * use qdvdauthor to create menu (5 mins)
> * save as VIDEO_TS (10 mins)
> * burn to DVD (15 mins)
> * optionally use gimp to create cover (hours and hours if you get 
> fancy!!)
>
>
> David
>
>
> John Williams wrote:
>
>> The answer to this is, you didn't find it in the archives because it
>> doesn't exist. The copy to Windows is about the best answer I'v run
>> across, and I agree too much work so I haven't done it. The next
>> answer you'll get is the devs don't burn shows so they won't code it
>> because they don't want it. You'll also get and this one rightly so If
>> it is too much trouble for you to copy to a windows box and burn then
>> it is way too much trouble for someone else to code this for you.
>>
>> I'm just repeating most of the things you'll hear based on old posts.
>> I'd like this to be easy, but it seems the editing is not an easy task
>> to keep sound in sync. The last few days have had a few good step by
>> steps, but they are still pretty drawn out. I'm waiting for a while to
>> get a DL burner until I have time to work on this particular problem
>> myself or someone else comes up with a good answer.
>>
>> Sorry, but I think you are out of luck,
>> John Williams
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:19:42 -0800, Praveen Shenoy 
>> <pshenoy2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> After spending a few hours digging thru the archives on this topic, I
>>> still didn't find any discussion that had concise steps to cutting
>>> commercials and burning dvd. I am sure people out there are doing this.
>>> I have a PVR-350 and I want to burn the movies I record to a dvd after
>>> cutting the commercials.  I don't want to lose any quality. I want the
>>> resulting mpeg after cutting the commercials to be still mpeg-2 and not
>>> mpeg-4. I can copy the file to windows and use pinnacle studio or
>>> something like that to dtect scenes and then edit out the commercials,
>>> but that is too much work and takes time. I don't much time to spare on
>>> this given that we have a 1 year old who keeps us busy and then work
>>> too. I would appreciate if anybody out there is already doing this and
>>> share a mini-howto of cutting commercials out of the mpeg2 files output
>>> by the pvr-350 and then burning them to a dvd.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Praveen
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