On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:54:52PM -0500, Billy Biggs wrote: > Joshua N Pritikin (vishnu@xxxxxxxxx): > > i tried <http://www.mainconcept.com/mainactor.shtml> but it isn't > > working smoothly enough. i need to remix MPEG-1 from VCDs and burn > > custom VCDs. MainActor is much too slow even my P-3 850MHz. > > What do you mean by too slow? You mean that seeking around and > looking at frames is slow? How is it slow? I'm curious. For example, have a 730M MPEG-1 file from a VCD. When i try to load it into mave, it takes about 10 minutes. Worse, every mouse click or re-display takes another few minutes. The software is definitely doing something wrong. On a more positive note, i was able to mix two small MPEG-1 tracks and save the result. The files were 4M and 1M in size. So maseq definitely works to some extent. > One thing to keep in mind that MPEG-1 is compressed video with > keyframes, and also lack of good timestamps. For a video editor to work > correctly with MPEG-1 video directly it would probably have to prescan > the whole file and mark keyframes for quick access, but decoding would > still take alot of time. You might consider trying to dump the video > maybe to huge uncompressed or RLE-encoded video files and edit with that > (something like huffyuv), or recompress to a non-keyframe based codec > like DV (but you'd have problems with the chroma if you're not careful). > > DV is much easier to edit since seeking is fast and to view a given > frame you only need to decode that one frame. i tried that. Actually i'm not convinced that uncompressed is *that* much faster. For example, i am not able to convert the 730M MPEG-1 file because mave is too slow. The other concern is disk space. 60 minutes of uncompress DV is really huge. > > No doubt professional video editing is available for Windows, but i > > was hoping for a linux solution. > > For kicks you could try Cinelerra > (http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3) but I don't think you should > get your hopes up. By the same brilliant people who created "Broadcast 2000"? Ugh. -- Victory to the Divine Mother!! after all, http://sahajayoga.org http://why-compete.org
