ProjectX does actually have a nice cutting interface, the ability to export/import cutlists, a graphical 'timeline' which shows red/green cut points. It's very slick, add to that the fact that once you generate a cutlist, ProjectX can process the entire video from the command line (for batch processing).
-- John <>< On 6/2/05, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 04:16:29PM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > > >Worth a try, though I presume one would have to then do some more to be > > >able to export mythtv's cutlist. The grail, of course, is to take > > >a mythtv recorded program with cutlist, and generate a cut-down mp2 or > > >mp4 with good audio sync which can either be played externally > > >(mplayer/xine > > >or players on other OSs) or reincorporated back into myth. > > > > > >(Of course, if myth's internal transcode did better on HD files, that > > >would be the easiest way to attain the latter goal.) > > > > > >What will projectX do for me? It doesn't appear to have editing. > > >Is it just to get the file into a place where avidemux2 can read it > > >without losing audio sync? > > > > > > > It took me awhile to work up the ambition to anally insert Java > > enough to make ProjectX go. Once I did, I was surprised at how much > > functionality it had. It will do cutting, and when it does so it parses > > the stream and tries to correct varying A/V offsets after the first cut. > > Looked really good, but like I said, some folks have been having subtle > > issues with the sync of cut streams. > > Frankly, at this point, I would be happy with a cutting program that was > given the leeway to move cutpoints to nearby I-frames or A/V sync points so > that there is no rebuilding to be done, and no risk of loss of sync. > > For a full fledged editing studio, you need to edit to exact frames, but > for elmination of commercials or extra snippets at the start and end of > recordings, a little leeway is fine. > > Particularly if, for example, you just have a series of programs that > you will not be watching for several months, programs that have a cutlist > so you won't watch the cut parts if you watch them now, and you just want > to delete the stuff you would not have watched anyway from your disk. > > I will check into project X, the web examples did not imply an easy cutting > interface. Myth has a reasonably decent cutting interface, though if I > were designing it I would add mouse/trackball support to make it really > easy to slide and search through the program for the cutpoints you want. > > I can imagine a nice mouse interface that went like this: > > a) Click to start hunting. Roll mouse, picture zooms by very fast. > The screen's worth of movement covers the entire video. > Get close to your cutpoint. > > b) Click again and now the mouse movement moves more slowly, the full > screen of movement covers just a minute or two. Get closer > c) Click again and the full sweep is now just a few seconds > d) Click again and the sweep is just 30 frames or so. Ideally > the frames are actually displayed as thumbs. Final double > click to pick frame. right click to go back up. > > I bet with an interface like this I could move to any frame I wanted > in a little back and forth of the mouse, in very short time. > > Beyond what myth needs, though. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users