Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:21:39 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: GOPchop replacement? Message-ID: <200705291121.50649.amistry@am-productions.biz> In-Reply-To: <20070529024231.GB20870@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20070527.223709.-201313103.imp@bsdimp.com> <20070529024231.GB20870@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
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--nextPart2158686.jSaBBAMX1Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 28 May 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:37:09PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > I'm looking to do non-linear editing, clip extraction, etc from a > > set of videos I've shot. These videos are from a DV camera, and > > I've processed them down into MPEG2 format for DVDs. I no longer > > have the DV originals. I was wondering if there's any good > > non-linear editor for these things. So far the best thing I've > > found is GOPchop, which is still extremely primitive. Are there > > any others? There's many in the multimedia category that look > > like they might do the trick, but so far I've come up empty. > > I use avidemux2 to generate the cut points (in my case, I'm cutting > out commercials, etc.) but I've found that avidemux2 has A/V sync > problems when you try to save, so I use multimedia/dvbcut to do the > actual cuts. The nice thing about dvbcut is it will only recode > frames if the cut endpoints aren't at keyframes.. but between > remaining keyframes, it performs a flawless copy. Unfortunately > dvbcut's UI is difficult to use, especially for marking the cut > points. > > So I use avidemux2 to mark the cut spots, save the project, and I > have a python program which converts avidemux2 project files into > dvbcut project files. I've also been requantizing the video to DVD > quality because my tuner card records at broadcast quality MPEG2 > (15 Mbit/s) which is too high for DVD.. For this, I use another > python script which uses a combination of mpgtx, lame, ffmpeg, > transcode, and mjpegtools and also converts the MP2 into AC3. The avidemux2 sync issues should be fixed in the 2.4 SVN. If anyone=20 is interested I'll roll up a tarball and post a port skeleton. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry amistry@am-productions.biz AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/ --nextPart2158686.jSaBBAMX1Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGXEUOxqA5ziudZT0RAkbtAJoCBfPE3n2ARTHd8VKO3IIcu+chhACgif1b PAT5goamlb1hvMp0oPrm0RE= =hW9x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2158686.jSaBBAMX1Q--
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