best mpeg editor?

[ablang]

What is the best freempeg editor out there?

Or what do you guys use to make videos with?

[Mntsnow]

Well I'm fairly new into this but I'm using Ulead's Video studio 3 ,Ulead's Media studio 5 and VideowaveII

Mntsnow

[Prospero]

For capture I use AVI_IO, and VirtualDub for rendering. VirtualDub can do linear editing, which means you can cut but not paste. What kind of stuff are you wanting to do?

[ablang]

I want to use my All in Wonder Video Card to record stuff straight off the cable input (such as Britney Spears appearances & Shania Twain music videos, etc), and then later edit out the commercials.

What do you think?

[Prospero]

Sounds fine, what format will you be capturing in? The only trouble you might run into, is that ATI sometimes makes you capture in a propriatery format. If you can capture in your existing software, great. To edit out the commercials, I use vitrualdub which can also rerender your video and audio to different formats. I capture in MJPEG and render to mpeg4v2 video and mp3 audio. I can get an hour tv show (42min after editing commercials) into about a 550meg file.
virtualdub http://www.geocities.com/virtualdub/virtualdub_news.html
AVI_IO http://www.nct.ch/multimedia/avi_io/

Let me know if you need more info
Prospero

[ablang]

It saves the file in .avi format, so I would like to have a .avi -> .mpg converter if anyone knows a free program for that too.

[Prospero]

bbmpeg is a free mpeg converter, I'll have to find the url for it, I don't seem to have it bookmarked. Correction, you can download it here. http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/encoding.html#enc