I'm totally confused about authoring movies. I got a new sony handycam and i shot some good videos now i have lots of doubts regarding softwares and their patent drivers they use. I got a good firewire card now i want to copy all my videos. 1.Firstly copying my videos from my hi8 tape to my pc in DVD(MPEG-2) format.Will i get the perfect picture quality and secondly will it serve as a good backup for all my videos to convert in this format.I heard DV format is also good but consumes lots of space. 2.How can i go about creating good menus for all my videos along with individual sub-menus of each main menu selection like the professionl dvd's do out there. 3.Which is the good software out there amongst the rest to do the honors. I have Ulead videostudio 9 and Ulead mediastudio 8 and also Pinnacle studio 10 sharewares to try. Kindly help me out to make a out and out good movie compilation .
Second person. I'm lurking hoping help will come. I won't say what I usually use (although everyone says it is very slow, like five or six hours) I have a bundle of Ulead that came with my video card and I have heard of pinnacle so I might have it somewhere also. come on folks, there are two grasshoppers that are ready to be taught.... Who will be our sensi (?probably bad spelling?)?
I can't offer any advice about the tape transfering. However, for DVD Authoring, you can't beat DVD Lab Pro. It will create simple to complex menus. http://www.mediachance.com/
That DVD Lab Pro costs $200. how about a suggestion that won't cost us anything more? remember: we have Ulead and Pinnacle so they don't cost us anything also open to freeware suggestions that do not require to buy the upgrade
In a way, it was a double post. Both threads are going the same way since you asked for free versions in both. Editing and Authoring programs include (but not limited to): Cinelerra, DVDStyler, KdenLive, Kino, LVE (Linux Video Editor) and DVD-Author.
ain't heard of any of them (googling them is on my to do list) I need to repartition a drive for linux to use (I have 3: 200G, 250G and 500G) or if I buy another 500G (2 or 3 months away) I could dedicate the 200 to linux. what distro is on your dual boot?
200GB is kind of overkill for Linux. The largest partition I have is 55GB and that's more than I'll ever use with Linux (even ripping and burning DVDs). The distros I have are 3. One on each of my machines. (Hopefully, I'll be getting a 4th soon!) All 3 are set up with dual boot systems and all work fine. I change distros pretty often as I'm still learning the ins and outs of Linux as a operating system. At present I have installed: PCLinuxOS, Kanotix and VideoLinux. I have tried many others and just testing these 3 at present. If your looking for a recommenation, try Ubuntu. It's good for someone wanting to try Linux. Or download several Live versions of different distros and try them out. With a Live CD, you do not need to install anything to your hard drive.
kurian and qazwiz...Ulead programs are great for starting out. Another good one is Nero 6 or 7, and you can download your files directly from your cam into Nero Vision. Nero does its editing work with mpeg files. Nero also has sub-menu abilities. It also has some good .pdf tutorials that can be downloaded. Concerning video quality...yes...it should be good. Mpeg files are big, and most try to reduce them to get more time on a disc. This is where you will need to make quality decidions. There seems to be no end to different apps used in video. All the different names and functions makes for confusion. The best thing to do is to just get started with an easy app, and forget about "professional" menus, etc. at first. With a good source file you can always go back and "upgrade" the menus.
