Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

[Bill Davidsen]

Fernando Cassia wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it
> <mailto:mail at robertoragusa.it>> wrote:
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>     Hmmmm? Having an additional intermediate encoding to avoid re-encoding
>     artifacts???
>
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> By converting to very high quality MPEG2 you avoid issues with AVI, XVID, H.264
> encoding and decoding which a lot of programs handle differently (you can get
> different results just by using different builds of FFMPEG).
>
I found that the hard way.

> For instance, it´s impossible to do frame-accurate cutting with a lot of AVI
> cutters, whereas on MPEG2 cuts are frame-perfect. Don´t ask me why, I´m not a
> codecs writer just an end user of many video cutting tools. And this is based on
> my personal experience.
>
I have found that writing from avidemux gives many warnings about just this, if 
you don't reencode it sometimes crashes.

> MPEG2 is the codec used on broadcast HDTV, and while it´s much less efficient
> than H.264, it´s less CPU intensive for applications to work with.

I would like to save it in a format which didn't get reencoded for use on a DVD 
if I have to distribute the video (lots of meetings and such). Most of the 
mastering tools I have tried are no happy to just use what they find. But at 
least I have a tool chain which gets my job done, so I am not complaining.


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