[mythtv-users] [OT] ProjectX user guide

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 13:15, Andrew Close wrote:
> On 11/22/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 09:35, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:36:48PM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote:
> > > > Once you have these set the next area of concern is the video display
> > > > area. Underneath are some arrows (I don't have the program in front
> > > > of me now, so I'm going by memory). The inner two are for moving one
> > > > GOP frame at a time (the smallest jump you can make in an mpeg
> > > > without transcoding), then next one is for a slightly larger jump,
> > > > and then again a slighter larger jump, the furthest out ones are for
> > > > jumping between cutpoint points.
> > >
> > > I'll just add that there are keyboard shortcuts for moving round the
> > > edit window.  The cut window uses ->, SHIFT ->, CTRL -> and ALT -> for
> > > skipping 1 frame, few seconds, ~ 15s, ~1 m - exactly what you need for
> > > cutting commercials! (I had to read the source code to discover this
> > > though ;-)
> > >
> > > p, n jump previous and next cutpoint
> > >
> > > Home, End go to start end of video.
> > >
> > > > Cutpoints. Next to the arrows for jumping around in videos are a +
> > > > and - for adding and removing cutpoints. Adding two cutpoints will
> > > > turn the area in between green, any green area area will be processed
> > > > and output. Multiple Green areas will be output in one final output
> > > > file. The right side along the video has two tabs, one shows the
> > > > cutpoint images and IIRC the other tab shows a list of the cutpoints.
> > > > Here you can also save your cutpoints to a file for later use (or
> > > > like if you realize you screwed up, instead of redoing all the
> > > > cutpoints you can load the file and easily make changes).
> > >
> > > My edit sessions go like this (all done with the keyboard), to add one
> > > cut point.
> > >
> > > ALT ->, ALT ->, ALT ->, ..., CTRL <-, CTRL <-, CTRL <-, ..., SHIFT ->,
> > > SHIFT ->, SHIFT ->, ..., <-, <-, <- , ..., <-, ->, a
> >
> > awesome! I was wondering if there were shortcut keys for that! I assume
> > "a" adds a cutpoint?
> >
> > Is there a way to have myth rescan a file after commercial cutting?
> > If I could rename the original, cut commercials, save the output file as
> > the original name and have Myth rescan the new mpeg I'd be a happy
> > camper.
>
> you could dump the new output in the /myth/video directory and then in
> mythfrontend utilities go into your video manager and it should be
> rescanned.

Would this require using MythVideo and not the recordings area for playback?

I'm trying to avoid MythVideo like the plague, its horrible for TV episodes, 
and random recordings, fine for movies...

-- 
Steve