home video editing software

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I am planning to do some edits of home videos.I have a fairly good
understanding in terms of the hardware requirement. I need some help
with the software? I have a Sony MiniDV camcorder. I need to do three
operations

1. Transfer the DV data from the camcorder tape to the computer hard
drive. I dont plan to capture any analog video directly to the
computer.
2. Review and Edit the video. Mainly cut/splice, some simple title and
audio
mix/dub.
3. Author a DVD or VCD and burn it into a disc. I specially need to be
able to do VCD in PAL format ( I know the quality will be lower than
DVD ).

Any suggestion on the software tool(s) to use? Indiviual or as a
package? Any brand suggestion? This is mainly for home movies for
friend or family. So I don't want to spend money on a pro level setup.
The transfer and DVD/VCD authoring can be slow. I dont plan to do it
too often and I should be able to let it run overnight. The editing
should not be too slow as that will take up my interactive time.

Thanks again for all your inputs.

-Dipu

 

[Rich]

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"Dipu" <dipumisc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am planning to do some edits of home videos.I have a fairly good
> understanding in terms of the hardware requirement. I need some help
> with the software? I have a Sony MiniDV camcorder. I need to do three
> operations
>
> 1. Transfer the DV data from the camcorder tape to the computer hard
> drive. I dont plan to capture any analog video directly to the
> computer.

Then Firewire is the way to go.

> 2. Review and Edit the video. Mainly cut/splice, some simple title and
> audio
> mix/dub.

If your computer has XP it has MovieMaker on it. If it doesn't have version
2, you can download it for free.

Rich

> -Dipu

 

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"Dipu" <dipumisc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:d074680d.0405201803.6ee853e0@posting.google.com...
> I am planning to do some edits of home videos.I have a fairly good
> understanding in terms of the hardware requirement. I need some help
> with the software? I have a Sony MiniDV camcorder. I need to do three
> operations
>
> 1. Transfer the DV data from the camcorder tape to the computer hard
> drive. I dont plan to capture any analog video directly to the
> computer.
> 2. Review and Edit the video. Mainly cut/splice, some simple title and
> audio
> mix/dub.
> 3. Author a DVD or VCD and burn it into a disc. I specially need to be
> able to do VCD in PAL format ( I know the quality will be lower than
> DVD ).
>
> Any suggestion on the software tool(s) to use? Indiviual or as a
> package? Any brand suggestion? This is mainly for home movies for
> friend or family. So I don't want to spend money on a pro level setup.
> The transfer and DVD/VCD authoring can be slow. I dont plan to do it
> too often and I should be able to let it run overnight. The editing
> should not be too slow as that will take up my interactive time.
>
> Thanks again for all your inputs.

I've had my camera for about four months now and played with trial versions
of various packages. I finally bit the bullet and purchased Sony's Movie
Studio 3.0. It was a toss-up between that and Ulead's Video Studio 7. The
Sony came with Sonic MyDVD, which I made two very pretty coasters with.
Other than being unable to actually burn DVD's, I liked it a lot. Since
actually producing DVD's was somewhat important to me I switched to using
Roxio Easy CD and DVD Creator 6, which came free with my DVD burner.