General Discussion

[Stevemantha]

Hi everyone

I recently got hold of a Play TV tuner, and am very happy with it, bar the lack of series linking!

However, I've been looking for a way to edit the native M2TS files (on my Vista laptop), so that I can edit out adverts from recordings (and clip start/end). Are there any good freeware editors out there that will do the job for me?

Thanks

[PatC_PSN]

According to Google there are freeware options. But it sounds like a lot of work just to avoid skipping through adverts.

I assume PlayTV has a fast forward function?

[Stevemantha]

Hi

Yes it has got a fast forward! I'd still rather clean them up, for the extra reason that all those adverts will waste storage space and file sizes.

I can't find any freeware that does it, only 'free trial' versions, if anyone can point me towards one I'd be very grateful.

[PatC_PSN]

The ones I quickly found may have been trial versions, I'm not sure. If Google can't find any then there probably aren't any. Google usually knows about these things.

[ProjectVRD]

Rename the *.m2ts to *.mpg

Import into Windows Movie Maker. Cut out the adverts. Re-encode as *.mpg.

(Dual Core recommended to prevent Windows Movie Maker crashing because it crap)

[Stevemantha]

Hi

Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't appear to work for me. I tried renaming a file, but Windows Movie Maker won't see it when I try to import.

[ProjectVRD]

Ok, I'll be honest, never tried with WMM because I have Nero 9 Suite and Pinnacle Studio. It definetaly works with them... here is some stuff I editted after recording the footage on PlayTV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO45ZiGql8E (Using Pinnacle)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Y1zuqsX6g (Using Pinnacle)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIZbgrVTeQg (Using Nero)

You can download a free trial of Nero 9 Suite form their site, and Nero Vision will be in there for you try out mate!