NY wrote on 10/10/2018 8:48 PM:
"Daniel60" wrote in message
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JBI wrote on 10/10/2018 1:19 AM:
I have several videos I've transferred over from VHS to digital.Â* All
are in MPEG2 format.Â* I need to cut and edit some of them, but I'm
having trouble finding a free editor that does so without
re-encoding. Suggestions for freeware that would allow this without a
re-encode would be welcome.Â* Thank you.

Can I add a related question, please??

After copying many VHS tapes to digital, when I edit the Digital
files, cutting out unwanted bits, I would want to add Date/Occurrence
"slides" to the edit, e.g.

Dora's 21st Birthday
First of April, 1999
Central Park, New York

Or, maybe ...

Wedding of
Dick and Dora
St Patrick's Church
Sydney, Australia
21/12/1995

That type of thing ... at the start of, or between scenes for, say
fifteen seconds.

Is this possible and, if so, which program would you recommend??

Hmm. You could use something like Adobe Premiere for inserting the still
captions (either between clips or overlaid on the start of a new
sequence) and just take the performance hit of having to re-encode the
whole project. Or you could use FFMPEG to generate a short MPEG clips
consisting of sequence of stills (which are all the same), and then
insert that between the existing clips. I've done the latter with a DVD
that I made for someone. I may actually have used Premiere to generate
the caption segments, rather than using FFMPEG, but I still joined those
to the video clips with VideRedo.

To make an MPEG from a sequence of stills, you use "ffmpeg -f image2 -i
image*d.png -pix_fmt yuv420p caption.mpeg" where the caption stills are
called image1.png, image2.png etc. The "-f image2" says "the input files
are PNG" and the "-pixfmt yuv420p" tells FFMPEG to force the output
frames to be YUV (luminance and two colour difference) when the input
stills are RGB (PNG stores pictures as RGB). If your stills are JPEG,
you may get away without either of those extra parameters.

You *may* get away with using AVIdemux instead of VideoRedo, but you may
fall foul of AVIdemuxe's rather naive way of joining video which doesn't
recode frames around the edit point and so may lead to brief pixellation
if the separate sections are not on full-frame boundaries and are
instead difference-from-the-last-full frames.

Thanks for that, NY. At least you've shown it is possible.

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Daniel