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Originally Posted by Doug G
Ok I've got 60 GB of MPEG 2 video from Davis Regional and am currently parsing it out. I'm confused on how to best save the match videos. If I use straight mpeg2 they're 90 MB each. WMV, 640x480 is 40 MB each. I can get them down to 10-20 MB but the resolution drops to 320x280. I can't use MovieMaker because if freezes when you ask it to load 60 GB of video. I recorded it in MPEG 2 format using a Pinnacle USB thing and their associated program Studio 10.
Any suggestions??
Otherwise I'll be posting it up as 40 MB WMV files. Sorry to eat up your hard drive SOAP.
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Doug,
I've run into a similar problem. The only solution I've found is to use
TMPGEnc to parse files. You can use it to cut out individual matches from your MPGs. Instructions are
here. I've then been using
Blaze Media Pro to batch encode to WMV, sine Windows Media Encoder is choking on my files for some reason. Finally, I've used
Tag&Rename to batch edit the WMV's metadata.
Advice if you're going this route. TMPGEnc seeks to the cut point in the file before you cut. And you cut each match individually, so the seek time for matches at the end of a 3+ hour MPG gets to be significant. I've been cutting the large MPG into 1 hour chunks first and then parsing matches out of the 1 hour chunks. I've also been getting fancy and cutting out the results screen individually. You can then de-multiplex the video stream of the results, and multiplex the video stream back into an MPG to remove audio. And then merge the results to the end of the match file to get a silent results screen. Also, when cutting using the TMPGEnc MPEG Tools, you can advance and rewind the video 1 frame at a time using left + right arrow keys, or ~4 seconds at a time by clicking the slider bar left or right of the marker. You can also set the cut points while the clip is playing, which is useful for finding dead air so you don't cut into the middle of the MC announcing.
Yes, this method is a bit time consuming, but it's the only way I've found for splitting my MPEG files. If your Pinnacle software lets you more easily parse out matches into MPGs easily, you can probably just use Blaze MP to simply batch encode them to WMV, and then Tag&Rename to edit metadata. Also, I'm really jealous of you. At any rate, I'm planning on using the "NTSC video for Broadband (1500 kbps)" setting for the Elims, and the (768 kbps) setting for everything else. It seems a good balance.