[mythtv-users] inserting cut point behaviour

[Steven Adeff]

On 5/25/06, Peter Schachte <schachte at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 06:57:12PM +1000, Leo Kliger wrote:
> > A slight annoyance when creating my cut points in a recording is that
> > when I hit the space bar the editor always defaults to "delete before
> > frame".
>
> That's true, it is a nuissance, but if it were the other way, people
> might find the unpredictability a nuissance, too.
>
> Taking the idea further, though, it would be nice if myth would help
> you edit out commercials.  I've noticed that what I do when I edit out
> commercials is pretty algorithmic:  I skip forward a minute at a time
> until I find the program I want, then I skip backward by 20 seconds
> until I find commercial, then forward by 5 seconds until I hit
> program, then back, etc, until I find the point to place a cut.  Then
> I do the same thing, looking for the end of the commercial break.  And
> so on, over and over.  It's pretty laborious.
>
> I think myth could kind of lead you through this, deciding for you
> which way to jump and how far to go to find the edit points, and then
> decide which way to delete.  All you would have to do is hit one
> button to indicate that the frame myth was showing you was program or
> another button to indicate commercial.  I think this could speed up
> commercial cutting considerably.
>
> I've put this idea in the myth wiki wishlist:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Feature_Wishlist_%28Frontend_Addons%29
> in the item beginning "Make editing out of commercials easier."

you can load the commercial points into the cut list. I usually start
with this then move them as needed. Works well, otherwise I use the
same method you do.

-- 
Steve
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