Can anyone recommend a good video editing tool?

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 12/24/2012 07:05 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com <mailto:davidsen at tmr.com>> wrote:
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>     I am looking for something to edit video and snip a few passages out to save. 
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> I usually convert the source file(s) to MPEG2, edit as necessary on MPEG2, and then encode to the final format (mp4 or H.264) as the last step once the result is the one desired.
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> That saves a lot of hassle with codecs, and re-encoding artifacts...

Hmmmm? Having an additional intermediate encoding to avoid re-encoding artifacts???

I suppose you encode to very high quality MPEG2, but how can you say this is better
than just going directly to the final format?

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