Hi all, I have some dvd's I recorded of family video. I hooked my camcorder up to my dvd recorder and copied about 90 mins of video. Now I'd like to edit that video on the dvd.Take out scenes, add transitions and voice overs if possible. I have a dvd rom and dvd-rw on my new computer. What dvd editing software would I use, Preferably freeware if any. Thanks for your time, Mike.
Windows Movie Maker 2.0 (downloadable from Microsoft site) does a great job for free. But you cannot author the disc and burn it directly from Movie Maker. You'll have to export the files as DV AVI files and then import them in an authoring tool. If you have Nero 6, just use NeroVision Express to author the disc. Actually NeroVision is a video editing tool as well, but the scene detection feature is just crap, so I prefer using Movie Maker. By the way, why did you burn your movie to a DVD before editing it ? You're supposed to do it the other way around... Maybe you don't have a capture card on your PC ?
Thanks dbandiera, The reason I didn't put the video in my computer is quite simply, I don't know how. There are 3 connectors on the video card (Nivida GeForce fx5200). One is the monitor, one is the s-video and then there is a rectangular recepticle with 24 small, square holes and four more next to them. It's white and I think it's a game control thingee. Yes, I'm DEFINATELY a newbie...Thanks again for your help
If the camcorder is digital video then it will have a firewire socket. You plug this into the firewire card on the PC (If it has one, if not buy a card) using a firewire cable Then open you editing software and capture the footage as an AVI. Then edit away and render as an mpeg2 then convert the mpeg2 to DVD files (VOBs and IFOs) If your camcorder is analogue you'll need a video capture card (not the same as a video card) I don't know much baout these as my camcorder is digital. XP comes with moviemaker which will enable all of the above (how well I don't know as I don't use it) Anything freeware is not going to be much good. I use Vegas video but there are many others. What you do not want to do is record it to DVD and then try and put it on the PC to edit. Arse about face and it'll end up being re-encoded more than it needs
Hey malum Wow, Thanks for instant reply and help.You guys are great here. Think I'm gonna learn alot in this forum. Ok so, I believe I have a "firewire" port on my sound card,Creative audigy audio processor (small squarish recepticle)The documentation says Ieee 1394 firewire support. Think thats it?
Is the camcorder digital? Re: firewire on the soundcard, I'm not sure what that is for, it may be a dedicated sound transfer device, I've not heard of a firewire port on a soundcard. Most new PC will have firewire ports all over the place (front and back) look in your device manager to see.
Hey malum Ieee bus host controller PCI Slot 3 (PCI bus 2, device 2, function 2) In device manager..Is that it?
Hey Malum, I have a canon zr 65 mc. It's a good digital camcorder I hope. Got it for Christmas. I heard that Pinacle software is the way to go...What do you think. Will it be easy to use for someone just breaking into this stuff (Video transfer, editing etc...? Thanx.
I can't see it being too difficult most of the packages are fairly intuitive and if you can't do something then the help file will guide you, and if you want to do something that isn't covered in there then someone here or at www.doom9.org will help you. I don't use pinnacle but plenty of people do so help will be at hand.
BTW there is a DV forum here (down the page a bit) and doom9 has a NLE (non linear editor, which is what you will be doing) forum
