commercial editing w/ gui and comskip compatibility?

[tunanugget]

is there such a gui that will detect the breakpoints w/ compskin, allow u to refine them via a gui interface by dragging a bar, and then save the output as a dvd-player compliant file?

[Spartan]

is there such a gui that will detect the breakpoints w/ compskin, allow u to refine them via a gui interface by dragging a bar, and then save the output as a dvd-player compliant file?

Look into VideoRedo. Set your comskip.ini to output VideoRedo project files.

[erik]

Its also possible to tdo the editing of the timeline in comskip itself.
But you need another tool to make the DVD compliant file.

[tunanugget]

Its also possible to tdo the editing of the timeline in comskip itself.
But you need another tool to make the DVD compliant file.

which would t5hat be?

[erik]

See the manual.

Drag and drop the generated .txt file on comskip.exe and the timeline editor opens
press F1 for help

[wtg]

Using comskip this way is my preferred means of editing. It's fast, accurate and easy once you get used to it. I then use stattik_transcode.bat (found elsewhere on this board) to do both the cutting and creation of a DVD-compliant file.

I just wish there was some way to control the comskip window via the remote, but as it uses a console window, I've not found a way to do that.

[erik]

It should be possible to send keystrokes to a console window using a another application
Otherwise I can easily make a special version that reads the keystrokes from a pipe.

[wtg]

It should be possible to send keystrokes to a console window using a another application
Otherwise I can easily make a special version that reads the keystrokes from a pipe.

I wasn't very specific - I can't find a way to use the Hauppauge remote to control comskip in edit mode.

There are two problems... the most important is that it just flat out doesn't want to send keystrokes to a console app. It appears to only work with native Windows apps. Additionally it relies on the active window title to know what button mapping to use from irremote.ini and there's nothing common in the name of the edit window - it's always just titled the name of the mpg being edited. We'd need at least a portion of the window title to be consistent, like "comskip" for instance.

If you have some suggestions I'm all ears.

[erik]

I can easily prefix the window title with "Comskip - ".
The edit window is a native windows window and not a console window so you should be able to send remote key's to it.

[wtg]

I can easily prefix the window title with "Comskip - ".
The edit window is a native windows window and not a console window so you should be able to send remote key's to it.

Hmm, that's actually what I thought originally. I wonder if I did something wrong in my testing.

I realized irremote.ini needed something consistent in the name for it's mapping and decided to do some testing before requesting you prefix the app window just as you've now suggested.

So I simply created a section with just the name of a single .mpg file, figuring if I could get irremote to work with one file, I'd have a good argument to hassle you. However, it didn't work and I figured it had something to do with the window type. I knew it wasn't a text console, but being ignorant and that irremote didn't seem to send anything to it, I still figured it was something "console-like" - whatever that is.

I've still got the key-mapping I played around with before and you've inspired me to do some more testing. Maybe there was something about the special characters in a full qualified path that irremote didn't like. I'll design my test a little more simply and see if I can get it to work, but if you want to do a build with "comskip -" in the title, I'll test with that too.

Thanks for the offer, Erik.