Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s
On Saturday 02 July 2016 10:33:32 brian wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> There seem to be a number of video editing programs available, at
> least according to Synaptic's lists.
>
> I have a very simple need - I've got a LOT of VHS tapes to convert
> before my last VCR dies. I have it all sorted except for one thing - I
> have to play the tapes real time, so I leave them running. This means
> the resulting files will have a chunk of 'dead space' at the end of
> them if I'm not there when the video content finishes.
>
> I just need to remove that dead space - doesn't matter to me whether I
> do that on the MPG or after conversion to the MP4. I don't need all
> the bells and whistles that most video programs are likely to have, I
> just need to be able to see the video and then mark a point after
> which everything will be deleted - in other words, a very SIMPLE video
> editor.
>
> Amy recommendations, please? 64-bit Debian testing, XFCE desktop,
> plenty of CPU and RAM available.
>
> Thanks,
I have used kino for that quite a few times, mainly to edit out my shakes
when I should have been using a tripod to shoot a wedding. There are
others to be sure, but with a firewire card to address my now old Sony
digital hi-8 handi-cam, kino can also run the handi-cam, including
writeing the edited video back to the tape. Thats been tested, but I've
not figured out a reason I'd want to as the output is normally put in a
video CD or a DVD for distribution to the participants. In doing that,
some video quality is lost but the result on the viewers tv is still 2x
sharper than a vhs tape, competing with an s-vhs machine but with less
video noise. The handi-cam outputs 720x480. And it was new several
years before hi-def broadcasting began.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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