PSE 8 and Media Center DVR-MS files?

Question

Though familiar with image editing in Adobe PS from 4 through CS, I am new to video editing and looking for the ability to edit the nearly 1TB of tv shows I’ve recorded with HP Media Center. Presently, my main interest is to edit out commercials and save (MPEG2… or better?), take brief sections of streaming video to edit to use in sigs and also capture single frames for captioning in humorous forums (any extra editing capabilities would be a plus). Was told by Abobe software advice/sales that that PSE 8 could read my Media Center DVR-MS files so I downloaded the trial version. When I click on ‘Get Media fom – PC Files and Folders’ the only files that appear under ‘All Supported Files’ are the ones I previously edited with my Sonic DigitalMedia Plus v7 and saved as MPEG2 movie clips and when I switch to ‘All Files [*.*]’ and select a DVR-MS file get ‘Error – This type file is not supported, or the required codec is not installed’. Now either I was given misinformation by the rep or I don’t know what I’m doing (which is most often the case).
Though my SDMPv7 is easy enough to crop out crap and capture stills, it takes about an hour to save a 2.5GB edited file to HD, was hoping for something faster. Might just be my old HP AMD 64x2 – 2.2 GHz 2MB, 1024MB 400MHz, 400GB internal HD can’t save it any faster.
Also, apparently Media Center will only play DVR-MS files and though Windows Media Player and Realplayer will play MPEG2’s the fast forward and reverse options are not functionable.
Any help/advice (other software?) is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Try downloading the trial version of PRE and then import the file.PRE has more video capabilities than PSE