Back from France - video editing software?

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:32 am

2,500 miles of bouncing 'round corners in France and ... France survived!

Unfortunately, Andy had an incident coming off the last roundabout in Marseille, and managed to break his headstock (and two of my indicators), so after limping onwards to Cassis, his riding days were over for that holiday.

We've got some cool video footage of Andy chucking it about along the Gorge du Tarn and of me in the Alps. It's currently on mini-DV tape format.

I think that he can record this straight to HDD (and thence on to DVD), but from that point I would like to edit the footage (there's about four hours' worth altogether) and mix in some music that is currently in my head.

Any suggestions for video editing software (Windows)? I'd be nice if it could do funky stuff like speed up the video stream...I would like to keep the original "soundtrack" (i.e. the exhaust note) and blend in some music of my own too. It'd need to be able to 'rip' the DVD onto HDD too.

(I've never tried doing anything like this before by the way).

Nice to be back on PlanetZ!

Royston

Post by **garyb** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:49 am

sounds great! i'd love to see it. congratulations on the successful adventure. i know about adobe premiere and vegas video, i'm sure that the film will be great.

Micha · Post by **Micha** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:29 am

Some DVD recorders (Plextor) are bundled with Pinnacle Studio. For simple tasks it's ok, like recording via firewire, cutting, title, adding music.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:42 am

Micha wrote:
Some DVD recorders (Plextor) are bundled with Pinnacle Studio.

*dink!*

Good reminder, thanks Micha - I've got a plextor DVD & Pinnacle software bundle.

I wondered what that software was for...

Royston

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:39 am

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at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:11 am

My favorite capture, cutting and encoding tool - and it's free: http://www.virtualdub.org/

skwawks · Post by **skwawks** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 4:17 pm

if you go to virtualdub dont forget to download deshaker ,it works very well .You can also get good bundles for dvd authoring with some pioneer dvd drives .
Cheers
paul

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 4:44 pm

I use Ulead VideoStudio 8. Easy to use and does not freeze all the time like Premiere(in my computer anyways).

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Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:39 am

Thanks for all the answers folks - lots of food for thought

Royston

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:03 am

So, own up, who thought this thread was dead?

One thousand years in the making, but finally the France Alps Biking Video lives!

My friend has kindly hosted it for me at:

http://bonstio.net/ston

It's a pretty large file (235MB mpeg), but it does represent the Last Voyage of The Bus and has some awesome scenery in it (and I make a guest appearance!)

It also has the mastered mp3 of the biking grunge tune I posted on .music some time ago.

Help yourselves, folks!

Royston

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:07 am

Video Deluxe.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:00 am

It was Pinnacle Studio SE (came free with my Plextor DVD drive).

I think the "SE" stands for "Suck Edition"

I may yet upgrade to the "PRO" ("PRObably will work") version.

One issue I've got with it though is the ludicrous audio compression applied when creating a VideoCD - dreadful breathing/pumping of the top end tied to the bass parts.

It has a few other audio-related BUGs too, so I'm hoping to trial the PRO version first before commiting any £££s to it!

Royston

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:16 am

If you want excellent audio tools in a video editor then Vegas is for you methinks. Vegas started life as an audio program and works in a very similar way to Acid. Now about that 235Mb download ! Got a low-res version

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:50 am

On 2005-11-24 05:16, Spirit wrote:
If you want excellent audio tools in a video editor then Vegas is for you methinks. Vegas started life as an audio program and works in a very similar way to Acid. Now about that 235Mb download ! Got a low-res version

Thanks for the Vegas tip Spirit!

Yeah, will sort-out a smaller file this evening, it's a bit fat for a lot of people.

BTW, can you do this sort of thing in Nuendo?

Royston

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:11 am

Vegas is very cool. Pretty much the daddy in it's league. Watch out for Viruses in older cracked copies if a friend happens to say 'oh, i've got a copy of that somewhere'. At least one of them a couple of years back was riddled with infection

( Not that i'm condoning the use of warez, but you might want to try the *full* version before buying

)

Post by **garyb** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:56 pm

wow, nice film!
one thing though......
i think you're lying about the france part. it looks just like california!

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:55 am

On 2005-11-24 13:56, garyb wrote:
wow, nice film! one thing though......
i think you're lying about the france part. it looks just like california!

yeah, but only 'just' - in Calfifornia the rocks would probably be granite while this video shows famous French limestone

Reminds on the area of La Chartreuse, Briancon, Aix-les-Bain (?)

Anyway - I enjoyed the movie, great start and worth elaborating. The music reflects the flow of the pics and that 'blowing-up-to-pieces' transition could simply be replaced by a version with better rendering, the idea is cool

cheers, Tom

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MD69 · Post by **MD69** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:40 am

And the price at the gas station would be in gallon not in liter

Post by **garyb** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:32 am

photoshop.

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:26 am

29 NTSC mustn`t be easy, too.