[Bearcatrp]

I have a sony sr100 that captures video to internal hard drive in mpeg2 format. When compressing 2 clips together to burn, there is about a 2 second delay between the 2 clips. I first save the files to an image file within toast 7, then burn to dvd. Is this a glitch or am I doing something wrong?
Randy

[tsantee]

Does "compressing 2 clips together" mean that you placed the two clips in the Toast Video window? In that case they are two separate titles that play automatically from one title to the next (when continuous play is selected in the Formats panel). It is the nature of video DVDs for a slight pause to occur between playing titles.

There is an application called Capty MPEGEdit EX that can join your MPEGs into a single MPEG file and can make smooth edits of the MPEGs. It is sold at www.pixela-1.com. If you get this application, be sure to save its MPEGs as separate video and audio streams to use with Toast.

Alternatively you can convert your MPEGs to DV or a QuickTime movie and use QuickTime Pro or iMovie to join those clips together.

[Bearcatrp]

Have tried converting to DV using streamclip. Works ok but loose video quality and I see more jagged lines in the video when I convert. I would rather work within the original file. I have seen capty mpeg edit. Last time I looked, they were working on the program specifically for the SR100 but don't know if they completed it yet. Thanks for the reply.
Randy

[Bearcatrp]

Just looked at capty and now remember why I did not get it. It does not support intel chips, only ppc. Not sure if will run in rosetta or how bogged down it will get in rosetta.
Randy

[tsantee]

Bearcatrp, on Dec 21 2006, 07:15 AM, said:

Just looked at capty and now remember why I did not get it. It does not support intel chips, only ppc. Not sure if will run in rosetta or how bogged down it will get in rosetta.
Randy

I don't have an Intel Mac so can't tell you what to expect. But it is the only Mac app I'm aware of that joins MPEGs without re-encoding them.

Alternatively you could play the clips back into the camcorder and just pause where you change clips. Then you'd have a continuous single video.