This is quite a lamer question... but I'm somewhat mystified by the `cut-editor'.

After loading a clip of recorded TV, I expected to be able to remove the commercial easily as advertised on tmpgenc home pages.

However, I have not been able to see how to do the most basic step. How to make a selection. The help file mentions things that can be done with a selection in many places.. but appears never to tell how to make a selection.

The tools offered.... Keyframe and clip-split appear to have nothing to do with selecting. Setting either before and after an unwanted section does not select it.

Ctrl mouse drag does not select Shift does not select.

AFter setting keyframes or split frames .. If I press the scissor tool, I'm told the entire clip is selected and I cannot proceed.

Clearly I'm missing some really basic information here.

Googling for `Tmpgenc Mpeg editor Tutorial'... hasn't turned up anything that looks useful either. It turns up dozens of illegal downloads, rapidshare etc etc cracks and so on... but nothing that looks like a good turorial.

So what am I missing... in order to do basic selecting?

There are buttons for setting the first and last frame; this is how you only select a certain section.

http://i32.tinypic.com/2wr0lme.jpg

1.) Navigate to the first frame you want to cut, then click the "set start frame button" (bottom row, to the left of the scissor button).

2.) Navigate to the last frame you want to cut, then click the "set end frame button" (bottom row, to the right of the scissor button).

3.) The section you want to cut should now be the only thing selected (it's the blue section in the slider and the frames in the thumbnail film strip are highlighted blue/purple).

4.) Click the scissor button to cut it out.