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posted: 27 Jun 2007 04:06 from: Raymond Gibson
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With apologies for yet another problem, nothing to do with Templot. I have just returned from a short conducting tour in Romania & was presented with a DVD of my concerts - taken with a Sony camcorder. I need to edit aout two hours down to fifteen minutes, for promotional purposes. Can anyone recommend suitable software (all I have at present is Cyberlin PowerDVD which, of course, will play the disc but not edit). I have tried the Internet, but there is too much irrelevant information through which to browse (not having a year to spare!). I tried my local PC World but no-one had any practical experience of the items on the shelves - & those items emphasised the fancy stuff....animations, filters, etc.....but made no mention of simple editing. Sixty pounds plus is, also, a lot to pay for what would basically be a 'shot in the dark'. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. |
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posted: 27 Jun 2007 08:38 from: Martin Wynne
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Hi Raymond, Raymond Gibson wrote: With apologies for yet another problem, nothing to do with Templot.That's what this "None of the above" forum is for, no need to apologise! I have just returned from a short conducting tour in Romania & was presented with a DVD of my concerts - taken with a Sony camcorder. I need to edit about two hours down to fifteen minutes, for promotional purposes. Can anyone recommend suitable software?I have a program called "VideoReDo Plus" from http://videoredo.com It works well, but how it compares with other similar programs I can't say, and for all I know there is a free equivalent which is just as good. Anyone? Bear in mind that you need a well-specified computer to do video editing. The files on the DVD which you want to edit are called VOB files. They can be huge files. You also need a DVD-writer drive and appropriate DVD-writing software if you want to create new DVDs from your edited VOB files. VideoReDo Plus costs USD $50, i.e. about GBP 25, which you can pay via PayPal. Download is 10MB, so if you are on slow dial-up, that will be about an hour unfortunately. There is a 15-day free trial (with frequent very annoying reminders, I seem to remember). It's very easy to use -- just drag the slider to the video frame you want and mark it for cutting or joining. Having cut out the bits you want, or left them in, or joined them together, you can save again in VOB format for DVD writing, or more usually MPG for playing in Windows Media Player or wherever. Let me know if you want more information about VideoReDo -- I don't use it very often and have not yet fully explored it, so I can have a look at all the options for you. One thing it is very good at is removing advertising breaks from recorded TV programs, which it can auto-detect, sort of. Note that if you have Windows XP you already have a video editor available on your computer in Windows Movie Maker. As far as I know it can't handle VOB files, although if your DVD player or camcorder has a FireWire output you may be able to capture it playing directly into Movie Maker. You would need a FireWire cable and suitable input socket (IEEE-1394) on your computer. The cable tends to be expensive -- VideoReDo may be not much more. regards, Martin. |
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posted: 30 Jun 2007 14:19 from: pcalkel click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
Hi Raymond As Martin Said you will have to use a DVD writer, if you buy a DVD writer most include some basic editing software as part of the package. You should check the websites of some DVD manufacturer's and check what software they supply. Paul |
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posted: 1 Jul 2007 00:57 from: Raymond Gibson
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pcalkel wrote:Hi Raymond I am - is this the correct term - a computer nerd! Even struggling to reply on this forum, so forgive me if my replies are not quite cohesive with previous answers. Anyway, thanks for all the help & suggestions. Especially your offer, Martin I will probably come back to you on this as, at the moment, I have given my DVD to my local computer experts in order to have a back-up copy made before I try to do any modifications (they are having problems also! The original played o.k. & it copied alright, but the copy would not play!!). Just to make matters worse my three DVD players - one just downloaded - will not play. So there are a few problems to be sorted first. Sony telephoned me back & suggested Adobe Premiere (at £400+, that is a non-starter) or a Coral Ulead product. The latter might be viable at around £60 & Corel have a good reputation. |
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posted: 2 Jul 2007 02:41 from: John McCrea
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Raymond Gibson wrote: ...Sony telephoned me back & suggested Adobe Premiere (at £400+, that is a non-starter) or a Coral Ulead product. The latter might be viable at around £60 & Corel have a good reputation. Hi Raymond You could try TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX® Authoring - it's $67.95 as a download. You can also get a backup disk at $10.95 if you wish. The web site is http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tda3.html All of these products are initially reasonably complicated but, although not very well known, I reckon this is one of the easier ones to use. There is a trial version available so you can have a quick go first. You will of course require a DVD writer to which to output your masterpiece. Note that although you should get DVD playing software with such a drive you are very unlikely to get any decent authoring software. By the way, I'm not connected with this firm in any way. John |
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