Video Editing on the computer

PC's:

VideoReDo Plus is a video editing program that works great if all you need or want is down & dirty video editing, meaning that if all you want to do is get commercials or just the program that you recorded with your PVR, then this is the best program that I've found so far. If you are looking for a program with more bells & whistles, then you might consider using another great program called Ulead Video Studio (I use version 7 and I think I've seen version 11 on the Internet).

Pro's

1. Marks the commercials within a recording so that you can then get the show without the commercials.
2. This program is really fast since it doesn't have to re-encode the newly created .mpg file.

Con's

1. The program identifies the commercials by the video signal fading to black and sometimes the individual shows fade to black also between scenes within a given show, so what I do is run Ad Detective and then view the findings first and mark the beginning and ending sections throughout the entire program and then cut the individual selections after viewing the automatic cut marks so that you can then splice them together for the final product.

Download the program at http://www.videoredo.com/

Mac's: This is a no brainer now that I'm using an iMac computer (thanks for the tip David). After using the elgato - EyeTV 250 plus for 2 months now, I've decided that this is the device to use for video editing on the Mac since it does everything the PC does and also the cons from the listing above. The coolest thing that can be done with this device is that you can go through the recording one time (instead of twice with the PC) and mark out the segments you want to merge together and also the commercials you want to keep and then export the commercials individually and then merge the other segments from the show to create a 45 minute show without commercials from the recorded 1 hour show with commercials. Way Cool.