Hey guys, I'll keep the initial 'dilema' brief. Someone's given me their Sony digital camera, and want me to crop a 20minute video into about ten 5-10 second clips (all in the same video). I was just wondering what the best program is to not only capture the video, but seperate the clips and rejoin them too. I've tried Windows Movie Maker, it ripped the video perfectly; it was around 30mb for 20minutes of footage, the quality was fine too, however, Windows Movie Maker seperates the clips itself, and pre-defines the way in which you can add the clips to the storyboard. If there was a way to actually select the clips myself for the storyboard it'd be PERFECT, but there isn't, so meh Sad I've also tried Virtual Dub, the compression on this was bloody AWFUL, a 20 minute clip was 4.5GB and every compression method I tried didn't come out much better (the best I got it was about 90mb) but even after that it was still really difficult to edit, so I'd rather have something a little simpler if possible. Any suggestions would be very welcome, this is really bugging me now! Thank you xx
WinDV for capturing. Virtualdub for editing. There isn't much that's simpler for cuts/splices, and if you have the right codecs installed, vdub will use any one you want. Start with DivX and Xvid. Don't blame vdub if you haven't got a good codec. It only uses what you put into it. BTW, DV-AVI is huge, and saving with DivX is going to result in a loss of quality. I would install the Panasonic DV codec, capture in WinDV, edit in virtualdub, and resave using whatever compression you want. What is the end result going to be? Encode and burn to DVD, or what?
Oh god, I'm so stupid! Just realised how to use it WMM! Heh, sorry. And thanks for your great reply, only just read it One final question, any idea why on earth it comes out so light when I rip it? I've ripped it in both Windows Movie Maker and Virtual Dub and both times certain parts are almost white (such as the sky!) I might try capturing via WinDV and see how I get on! http://www.kwbell.co.uk/1.wmv please don't laugh too much! :E[/url]
What you see on the computer has very little relation to what will show on the TV. If it's light, then darken it. There are many editors around that will do much more than WMM, and do it without crashing.
