Preserving Quality While Editing Cuts??

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  1. urdivine

    urdivine Member

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    Using "Mpeg Video Wizard", I cut out songs in a musical[mpeg2] and put them in the timeline. Objective: To add song title files before each song and possibly fade in and out of many of the songs.

    I understand that I can add the title files and combine all the songs and tiles into one mpeg2 with no loss of quality. Correct?

    BUT, if I fade in or out of any song, there will have to be re-encoding, therefore quality loss. Correct?

    So, here's my theory; What if I cut into seperate files, just the brief parts of the beginnings and ends of each song that I'm going to apply the effects [fading], then only those small parts of the song will lose quality. Isn't this true?

    Then I can combine it all together and mostly have the same original quality.
     
  2. rebootjim

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    Womble only encodes the changed portions of the video, not the whole thing, so you don't lose quality.
    No need to jump through hoops :)
     

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