I have been recording shows from my DVR onto my computer and then putting them on DVD so I can watch/listen while on the road. Up to this point, I have had no problems - I can put the entire1 hour uncut onto a DVD at a very high bit rate and the recording still looks stellar.

However, tonight I ran into a problem where my DVR blipped while recording the show but I was out of the room and didn't notice until about 15 mins after the blip. The blip caused the audio to be off and the video to be crap. I was able to go back and re-record the footage without too much of an issue (but didn't want to start all the way over).

Anyways, I loaded both sets of footage into MEP MX Premium and proceeded to cut the extra 15 minutes of footage off of one clip, cut another about 5 extra minutes off the other clip to get them to line up perfectly. However, when I go to burn now, it acts as though ALL of the footage is still present. Meaning my settings that should put me at high quality and just below the full 4.7 GB on the disc is actually putting me at 5.5 GB. The total run time is still 59 minutes (as are all the other hour long episodes I have burned) but why on earth is MEP not actually "cuting" the clips out from the movie I cut.

They don't show up in the video playback and they don't show up anywhere else I can find (I even dumped the undo/cache) but for some reason, it is currently encoding the first clip and its adding on the extra 15 minutes for some reason.

Whats the point of cutting out all of this footage if MEP is just going to "add" it in anyways but then never use the footage when it burns. Or am I missing some elusive step here?