How To Use The Editor - Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 Installation And Reference Manual

MPEG Editor
The Hauppauge MPEG Editor is an MPEG-1/MPEG-2 cut and join edi-
tor. You can cut out segments from videos, or combine videos (of the
same MPEG format) together. The MPEG editor makes its cuts on what
are called "MPEG I-frames". These types of cuts do not require a re-
encode, and therefore preserves the quality of the original video.

How to use the editor:

Click on the Add source button or click on File / Add source to bring
the file you want to edit into the MPEG editor. The WinTV-PVR uses the
c:\My Documents\My Videos directory as the default directory to save
video files created by the WinTV-PVR. When the selected file is opened,
it will start playing back in the video window. Click the Stop button to
stop playback.
Grab the video position slider, and move it to the beginning of the
video segment you want to keep. The video frame will be shown in the
video window. You can also use the controls under the video window
(play, pause, stop and the frame control buttons).
When you have correctly positioned to the video frame you want, click
the In button. This will define the starting point of the video interval.
Grab the video position slider and move it to the end position of the
clip you want to keep, then click the Out button.
Click Add Interval to add the defined clip to the cut list. Repeat until you
have put all the desired video clips in the "cut list".
When you have finished with your cut list, click the Generate output
button. All intervals in the cut list will appear in the final video. The
Generate Output step normally takes a while.
Your MPEG video is named nanoEDIT.mpg. Be sure to rename this
before cutting another video, otherwise the file will be overwritten!
Before you click Generate Output, click File / SelectOutputFile to
change the file name of your recorded file.
To cut away an advertisement, click the In button at the beginning of
the video sequence, then click the Out button just before the advertise-
ment starts. Click Add Interval. Then click the In button at the end of
the advertisement, and click the Out button at the end of the video
sequence you want to keep. Then click Add interval.
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