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Editing MPEG-2 video

by whatdoyoumeanpigscantfly Oct 20, 2005 7:44AM PDT

I recently bought a JVC Everio GZ-MC50 camcorder, which records in .MOD MPEG-2 files. JVC bundles some Cyberlink software with the camcorder, but the software if vastly inferior to a lot of other DV editing applications out there. I haven't been able to find a good video editing application that can edit MPEG-2, however.

I'm aware of the fact that the nature of MPEG-2 compression makes this very difficult. I'm still wondering, however, if anyone knows of any MPEG-2 video editing solutions.

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Rename .MOD to .MPG

by bright_day Mar 10, 2009 6:05AM PDT

Just rename .MOD extension to .MPG and edit is with womble:
http://www.womble.com/products/Feature.htm

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my recommendations

by sektionschef Mar 10, 2009 4:16PM PDT

hello
To edit mpeg2 videos I can recommend 2 sw packages:
-Magix Video Deluxe(Europe) or Magix Movie Edit Pro(US)
Is cheap, very powerful and handles mpeg2 files very good.
Unfortunately its smartrenderer(which prevents reencoding of unchanged mpeg2 material) is a littlebit buggy, sometimes it generates artefacts at the position of a cut.
-Ulead VideoStudio X2 Pro
Still much more powerful than Womble but a littlebit more limited than Magix. In previous versions the smartrenderer of Videostudio was also very buggy but in latest X2 Pro version it seems to work flawless now.

In general I wouldn't give too much weight on the smartrendering function because it only affects unchanged scenes. If you add any effect, color corection,mask,transition,deshaker,etc. smartrendering will not work anymore.
That's why I prefer Magix over Videostudio although its smartrenderer is buggy.
Regrads
Sektionschef

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