> "The EyeTv Editor allows for frame by frame editing very effective.
As a very new user of EyeTV I don't think this is true. Certainly a very effective editor but it seems to only select within 0.5 second which is say 12 frames. Probably not a significant issue in most cases! Cheers, Alan On 11/10/2011, at 6:34 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: Thank you Ray, I do use a MacBook Pro as my main computer and a Mac Mini Server for the Tv. We live in a dodgy signal area in the hills and my next excuse is it is easier …to use the Toppy... So I may look into a third splitter and separate the aerial to a third and fourth and use the MacMini for important shows. The EyeTv Editor allows for frame by frame editing very effective. Thank You again, Ray. Brian On 11/10/2011, at 1:53 PM, Ray Forma wrote: Brian, just out of interest, if you have eyeTV, why do you then use a Topfield to record TV? To me that's a bit like using Windows to create files to merely view on a Mac. You don't mention what type of mpg file the Topfield stores, but I assume it's mpeg-2, which is the native transport stream Australia uses for DVB/T. The files that eyeTV creates when it records a broadcast are not really files; they are packages containing about 6 files. If you open such an eyeTV package, you will find the actual recording is a file named something like '000000001226787d.mpg', and it's an mpeg-2 file. If you use eyeTV to open and play such a bare file it will, but it won't offer to edit it. I therefore suggest the following solutions: 1 Use eyeTV to both record and edit your videos and put the Topfield in the Quokka. 2 Use the video editor in an app like Toast or iMovie 3 Play the video out of the Topfield and into the analogue port of an eyeTV hybrid. Then edit it. As this will take 'real time' I wish you luck with a 3 hour movie from commercial TV. Our one-and-only TV is a MacMini with an eyeTV stick, so I do everything with eyeTV. Others therefore may have brighter ideas. On 11/10/2011, at 12:54 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: > Hi All, > > Has anyone used EyeTv's editor to edit other video formats? > > I use a Topfield to record tv and would like to edit out the ads, Topfield > makes mpg files and the EyeTv editor won't edit them. I could my copy of > MPEGStream Clip, but it is not as accurate. > > I can convert them to other formats, but which one? > > Thank you for your thoughts, > > Brian Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
