OT: Speeding up MPEG

[google]

Does anyone know of any software (preferably freeware or shareware) that I can use to edit an MPEG video to give a speeded up comedy effect?

I want to burn the fast play video onto DVD, not just play it back faster on screen (which I can already do with the software that came with the camcorder).

Andrew

[Piers Finlayson]

I use VirtualDub (opensource/free) to process my .AVIs into MPEGs. It seems pretty good.

I note that on the Video frame rate control it has a "Frame rate conversion" section with settings like "Process every other frame (decimate by 2)" and "Decimate by N" where you enter N. I suspect that would do what you want.

[google]

Thanks, but that doesn't work. I have .MOD files from a JVC HDD camcorder which are, apparently, MPEG-2. VirtualDub can only read MPEG-1 and cannot write any MPEG format.

I tried an MPEG converter but it cannot read the .mod file. Windows Media Player is happy with it.

Also, from the Virtual;Dub help statement that frame rate decimation does not affect A/V synch, I'm pretty sure that it can only change the frame rate and not the actual playback speed.

Andrew

[geoff]

Super

anything to anything else

and is free

[John Rumm]

Try renaming .mod to .mpg - works on the .rec files produced by toppy.

Failing that, Super, as per Geoff's suggestion.

[google]

Unfortunately not. If I select MPEG-II as the input then the only output option is MPEG-II

Andrew

[Stuart Noble]

And it makes a mess of anything I've played in it

[geoff]

In message , [e-mail] writes

Well, I don't have it on this machine so I can't check, but I think you must be doing something wrong