All the edits need to be is some sort of Edit Decision List (called an EDL in video editing circles) which could be a tiny ascii file that would tell your video player to Play 00:00:00 - 00:01:13 then jump to 00:34:43 and then on from there....
Think of all the collective time it would save....
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