Due to the way video is encoded with I frames, B frames and P frames, cuts had previously needed to be on I frame points. So a clear tie there but there is more to it than that. Well, both do the cuts to a single frame. For me, VRD shaded it but if you had never used either I think both would seem fine to you. This is purely a personal preference here. You need to hover over to see the functionality. The buttons to select or reject video segments are thumbs – that makes sense – but not labelled. When there is plenty of screen space that does not make a lot of sense. The icons are smaller on the SVS than VRD – I prefer larger but that might be due to my eyesight! The control buttons for playback, scroll left/right are also smaller on SVS. I do notice that VRD shows more thumbnails of the video than SVS but again, it is down to preference.

It looks different but works in the same sort of way. SVS also has markers and a cut inside or outside system. VRD uses some screen estate for a list of cuts, SVS uses that to show the details of the file opened. Maybe “Trim Inside Markers” and “Trim Outside Markers” would have made more sense. You either use Cut Selection or Trim Unselected. You simply put markers down and cut points and select to either cut inside or outside of the markers. I had experienced VRD before so it was very easy for me to use it again. This is very much a personal preference choice here. For me there are three key things to look at: VideoReDo addressed that with time stamping support.īut H264 is the challenge today – and one that these products have worked on tackling for some time. The slightest deviation meant the sound went out of sync. Before that I used Womble’s MPEG-VCR for MPEG1 and then MPEG2 but it only worked well on totally standard MPEG2.

I confess I have used VRD before (trials some years back and just now). So both would seem perfect for edits of your home movies from your high definition camcorders, phones or your captures from various video sources like set top boxes. Personally I only heard about Solveig’s Video Splitter from Googling for other solutions to the need for frame-precise MPEG2 or H264 video edits but let’s look at Video Splitter and see how it compares.īoth products claim to offer frame accurate editing of the most popularly used video formats (MPEG2, H264 etc). VideoReDo has been around in various forms since 2004.

Portable solveigmm video splitter