How to remove commercials or edit out unwanted scenes from a video

This article considers the simple scenario:You want to clear the movie from commercials or unwanted scenes.

This article explains how to do that with MPEG video Wizard DVD in a few simple steps without video/audio quality degradation and in a couple of minutes.

There are three ways to edit out commercials.

Method A:

1. Open the video in the Input Monitor.

2. Right click in the input monitor and select "Book Mark Browser"(or Press F3 ).

3. Press the "BlankFades" button in the Bookmarks window.

4. Drag and drop all clips in the bookmarks window onto timeline.

5. Double click each clip to play it in the input monitor, then "shifted+delete" the commercial clips.

6. Click the red button on the Timeline to export all the remaining clips to a new file.


Method B:

1. Open the MPEG file in the Input Monitor.

2. Drag the navigation bar to find the commercial beginning, and click 'Mark in' button to mark the beginning. You can use arrow keys to find exact spot

3. Drag the navigation bar to find the commercial end, and click 'Mark out' button to mark the end.

4. Press the Trim cut button (or the 'X' key) to remove the selected segment between 'Mark in' and 'Mark out'.

5. Repeat the steps above for all the commercials of a show.

6. Press the 'G' key to add the remaining segments to the Timeline, and preview the video in the Output window.

7. Click the red button in the Timeline to export this video.



Method C:

1. Load the file onto the timeline

2. Drag the edit line to the start of first commercial break - can zoom in and/or use mose wheel / arrow keys to find exact spot

3. Press CRTL+Q to split

4. Locate the end of the commercial break in the same way

5. Split

6. Right click on the commercials - now a separate clip - and choose "shifted delete"

7. Repeat for all commercial breaks

8. Export

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