cutting an mpg

[Carlos Menem]

I would like to know of a good program that can cut by frame as it is the only way to cut accurately, I tried the following and I have the following issues:
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AVI MPEG ASF WMV Splitter
(DOES NOT KNOW THERE IT STANDS, AND THE 01:01:xxx timeline is crazy it will show frames from another second in the same second, you really don't know where you're cutting from, it will cut the video well if you give it the right amount of time without padding or reencoding which is good but just the concept of having h:m:s:000 is out of the place as one second can't have 999 frames and it doesn't even do the equivalent like if a movie second has 2 frames it will not go from 0 to 500! instead will go to 001 and when it reaches 999 which is supposed to be in the same second, will be like from the 20second after.
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TMPGEnc 2.5 cutter

a little better in showing the right frame being cut from, but it will not cut exactly as is told.
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mpeg-vcr
Too much padding overhead and will increase your file size.
Good sync with the movie on the preview window when showing h:m:s:frames instead of thousands of miliseconds which is the correct way, but after cutting your video appears to look diferent as if it was poorly reencoded.
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I need the perfect cutter, any ideas?

[ormonde]

"I need the perfect cutter, any ideas?

Did you look at this:

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tme.html

[Carlos Menem]

reencoding?

does this cuts the video only? or it too reencodes it?

[ignignot]

In the MPEG Tools from the file menu there is a merge & cut option, it has always worked perfectly for me.

[Carlos Menem]

I tried it, the one in TMPGEnc MPEG Editor, and my video tends to freeze at some frames, so it must be a horrible joiner! I used its cutter and it worked well.

Any good joiners?

[ormonde]

"Any good joiners?"

Try "AVSVideoConverter"