MPEG Streamclip

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MPEG Streamclip
Developed by	Squared 5
OS	Windows/Mac OS X
Genre	Video editing software
Website	www.squared5.com

MPEG Streamclip is a freeware video editor/converter for MPEG-1/MPEG-2, and transport streams. It is created and written entirely by Squared 5 in Italy.

• It can play, edit and export a variety of formats, using a compatible QuickTime codec.

• It can convert between MPEG/MPEG-2 type formats with no loss of video quality.

• It can convert between formats compatible with quicktime.

It is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X

Contents 1 MPEG/MPEG-2 Conversion Features 2 Required/Compatible Codec 3 MPEG-2 Compatibility 4 Audio Compatibility 5 Editing Features 6 Export Features 7 Reviews 8 References

[edit] MPEG/MPEG-2 Conversion Features

The conversion features are compatible with most unprotected MPEG/MPEG-2 transport streams, and can convert them into the industry standard MPEG/MPEG-2 files without re-encoding.

MPEG-2 transport streams are used in MPEG-2 Devices such as:

• DVD Recorder
• DVD Camcorder - Allows Mac and Windows users to transfer video from a DVD Camcorder such as a DVD-Handycam.

It can convert MPEG-2 type formats such as:

• VR Mode (VRO)
• DVD-Video Mode (VOB)

Into more compatible MPEG-2 formats:

• MPEG-2
• MPEG-2 with MP2 audio
• Headed MPEG
• MPEG-TS

With:

• No loss of video quality (losslessly) - This means it does not need to be re-encoded.
• Perfect audio/video sync
• Compatibility with DVD authoring applications (Allows burning at full-quality)
• Joining of multiple VOB or TS files

It prompts/allows you to fix timecode breaks, if you recorded multiple times in the same file. This also improves compatibility. The preference "fix streams with data breaks" should be enabled.

[edit] Required/Compatible Codec

• Quicktime

or

• Quicktime Alternative

[edit] MPEG-2 Compatibility

For MPEG-2 compatibility with quicktime, the user must do either of the following:

• Buy the 'MPEG-2 Playback Component' from Apple

or

• Select "Extra QuickTime plugins" when installing QuickTime Alternative

It should be noted that if all you want to use it for is fixing timecode breaks, you can ignore the warnings about needing mpeg2 codec and as long as you don't try to play it, it will fix timecodes and export to mpeg2 just fine.

[edit] Audio Compatibility

• MPEG layer 1/2 (MP1/MP2)
• AC3
• A52
• PCM

[edit] Editing Features

MPEG Streamclip can quickly cut and paste segments of video without re-encoding. You can remove (cut), copy and paste parts of the movie by selecting the in/out points.

[edit] Export Features

By using any Quick-Time compatible codec, it can convert (transcode) from:

• MOV, DV, MP4, AVI, DIVX, MPG, MPEG, VOB, PS, MOD, M2P, VRO, TS, DAT, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AVR, M2V

to

• MOV, DV, MP4, AVI, DIVX,

With

• Motion-adaptive deinterlacing (Optional)
• Perfect Audio video sync

[edit] Reviews

• http://www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=15466
• http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/08/mpeg-streamclip-complete-video-encoding-software/

[edit] References

• http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html Streamclip for Windows
• http://www.mcs.sdsmt.edu/mcgough/public/SonyiMac.html Sony DVD & iMac
• MPEG Streamclip Guide.pdf (Included with download)
• http://www.squared5.com/ Official Site