Whether a video editor always starts on the Accurate Frames?

It depends. To answer this question, we may first discuss some basic ideas.

What is Frame Accuracy?

Movies are often digitally compressed before stored. There are key frames and non-key frames in compressed movies. Non-key frames can NOT be displayed without key frames, while key frames can be displayed INDEPENDENTLY. The functionality to locate and display each frame correctly, no matter key or non-key, is called FRAME ACCURACY. (tip: for each picture in the movie, we call it a frame)

Why we need Frame Accuracy?

Without Frame Accuracy, you can not start displaying on desired frame; the desired frame may be LOST, or you may got SECONDS of frames you do not want before desired one.

WYSIWYG, also spelled as What You See Is What You Get, has long been a standard demand for modern softwares. We will surely take this as a normal requirement. Hard to imagine, when a user defined a cut point on the time line, but the output is 3 seconds away from that point.

Our Smart Cutter will

Edit videos captured by DV Cam and HD PVR with no re-encoding, in a Frame Accurate mode

It surely will start on the Accurate Frames, whatever the starting frame is I P or B frame; the frame type does not matter in Smart Cutter.

It is an easy-to-use video cutter, splits and joins videos quickly in several mouse clicks.

It is a Frame Accurate video editor. You can trim movies in ps/ts formats captured by DV Camcorder and DVB HD PVR easily with this tool. Cut commercials out of video stream.

Especially, only small parts on start and end points will be re-encoded, the middle part will remain untouched, lossless. This gives highest speed while reserving highest video quality. So it's called 'Smart Rendering'.

Supporting M2TS, TS, PS, TP, TRP, MTS, MPG, VOB; H.264/AVC, AVCHD, MPEG2, DVD etc.

cut accurate frames of video without re-encoding...

Please refer to the page of our Smart Cutter for more information. When you need to process your H.264/AVCHD/MPEG2 movies, you may have it a try.