Editing MPEG Files

[Fris B. Fairing]

When you run a movie in Windows Media Player there is provision to indicate "Show, Clip, Author and Copyright". Does anyone know how to edit these for an MPEG file?

[FL310]

These data are entered while creating the movie before rendering. With a movie editor you can open the file and not only re-edit these details, the whole movie can be changed and subsequently rendered again.

But why do you want to do that....giving someone a copy claiming it was your work???

[BayAreaLondoner]

You can download a free Windows Media Player encoding program from the Microsoft site. This will let you re-render video and should let you change the tag info.

[Fris B. Fairing]

Bay

Many thanks for your helpful response. I'll give that a go.

FL310

I assure you my intentions are honourable. The mpeg clip currently has no credits on it and I want to edit an appropriate attribution.

Cheers

[Fris B. Fairing]

Bay

I downloaded the Windows Media Encoder as you suggested and it will indeed enable one to edit the credits on an mpeg file. Unfortunately it seems that it is only possible to save the movie as an .mpv file. Any idea how I might keep it as an mpeg after editing?

Cheers

[BayAreaLondoner]

Fris,

Ah... I must have missed that you wanted to keep it as an MPEG file. The Windows Media Encoder converts source material in WMV format. You can convert WMV into other formats. There might be some useful info here:
http://www.digtv.ws/html/convert/convert-util.php

However, you will definitely lose quality and depending on what you want to do with the video there may be other problems too. You may be best with a cheap video editing program as suggested earlier in the thread.

[Fris B. Fairing]

Thanks Bay. I'll give that a go.

Cheers