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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1162359" data-attributes="member: 109222"><p>Hi.</p><p>It's depending on various things which software may fit your needs the most. First is the question if you want to cut SDTV only or HDTV too. For SDTV (aka Mpeg2) there are free solutions for cutting frame accurate without recoding the whole video (what is done already by MCE Buddy). But for HDTV (aka h264) there is not a single free solution that is working frame accurate and without recoding the whole video. Normally a Mpeg (no matter if 1,2 or 4 or any other stepping) video only can be cut on keyframes as those keyframes are the only "full" pictures that are saved in the Video. All other frames have stored only the differences between the single pictures. This is done to compress the video and save (an enormous amount of) space. Those keyframes can have some seconds between them, so any accurate cutting on keyframes is not possible. You always will see the edited parts and/or "jumps" in the movie. If you are fine with this you can choose from a lot of solutions. </p><p></p><p>Or you don't use MCEBuddy and do the cutting and recoding at the same time with a program like Avidemux (it can handle more than AVI files, also the name suggests something different) or XMediaRecode or Handbrake or similar. With those you will get an accurate editing and the needed recoding in one step. </p><p></p><p>Personally I'm using VideoReDo (not free but worth it's money) for editing as it is the only program that can cut HDTV recordings frame accurate without recoding the whole video and in a short period of time (did not take longer than a copy of this video will last). After I've edited all videos I'm recoding them with my own tool MKV-Buddy that also renames the movies or series episodes properly, adds fanart and metadata and removes unwanted tracks (foreign audio tracks, subtitle tracks I don't need,...) on a whole bunch of videos with a single mouse click. MKV-Buddy is working in the background without me needing to interact with it. So this can be done also I'm not at home or while I'm sleeping or similar...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1162359, member: 109222"] Hi. It's depending on various things which software may fit your needs the most. First is the question if you want to cut SDTV only or HDTV too. For SDTV (aka Mpeg2) there are free solutions for cutting frame accurate without recoding the whole video (what is done already by MCE Buddy). But for HDTV (aka h264) there is not a single free solution that is working frame accurate and without recoding the whole video. Normally a Mpeg (no matter if 1,2 or 4 or any other stepping) video only can be cut on keyframes as those keyframes are the only "full" pictures that are saved in the Video. All other frames have stored only the differences between the single pictures. This is done to compress the video and save (an enormous amount of) space. Those keyframes can have some seconds between them, so any accurate cutting on keyframes is not possible. You always will see the edited parts and/or "jumps" in the movie. If you are fine with this you can choose from a lot of solutions. Or you don't use MCEBuddy and do the cutting and recoding at the same time with a program like Avidemux (it can handle more than AVI files, also the name suggests something different) or XMediaRecode or Handbrake or similar. With those you will get an accurate editing and the needed recoding in one step. Personally I'm using VideoReDo (not free but worth it's money) for editing as it is the only program that can cut HDTV recordings frame accurate without recoding the whole video and in a short period of time (did not take longer than a copy of this video will last). After I've edited all videos I'm recoding them with my own tool MKV-Buddy that also renames the movies or series episodes properly, adds fanart and metadata and removes unwanted tracks (foreign audio tracks, subtitle tracks I don't need,...) on a whole bunch of videos with a single mouse click. MKV-Buddy is working in the background without me needing to interact with it. So this can be done also I'm not at home or while I'm sleeping or similar... [/QUOTE]
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