video editing

[capt. apathy]

I'm picking up a digital video camera this week, and was wondering about good video editing software.  I don't need alot of special effects or anything but I would like something easy to use, quick to learn and fairly inexpensive

[Eagler]

I've used Studio DV - came with a firewire card
Sony camera
Fun to mess with but end up just editing them and putting them back to VHS as the file sizes are huge and I don't own a DVD burner

[capt. apathy]

how huge?
about how many minutes can you get on a cd?

[Eagler]

I wanna say 3 meg a second for high quality avi

messed with the SVCD but I couldn't get the quality

here's a site that'll answer a bunch of your questions:

http://www.lmrgroup.com/ke3ht/dvc-ii-svcd.html#links

check out the links at the bottom - seems the vcdhelper site has changed hands/owners

[Dux]

I've always had good luck with Adobe Premiere.

[Kieran]

I'm with Eagler- Studio (Pinnacle) is the easiest thing I've used. Anyone can do it, my students do.

Any DVD format is going to be huge regardless of the program- that's the nature of the beast. Get a bigger harddrive. OTOH, you should be able to mpeg a sizable movie in most cases, or go CD. The quality won't be as great, but you can have a lot of fun with it.

[Nefarious]

Premiere is Good, After Effects is good as well. Both are Adobe products, Premiere is better for editing After Effects is better at composoting. Both cost a pretty penny though.
 
You could say your a student and get the educational version's fairly cheap though. If you like what After Effects can do, pick up a copy of Discreet's Combustion. I'm in an advanced composoting class using Combustion and it is insane what you can do with it.

[capt. apathy]

I have plenty of hard drive space.  my main concern is how many minutes of mpg I can get on a cd without much quality loss.  would like to be able to mail some vid's of the kids to reletives.  also would like to store them on cd's.  storage isn't such a big deal though because I can always store them on sequential cd's

[GtoRA2]

capt. apathy
 Shoot me an email at gtora2@hotmail.com. Our email filter here is acting up.

I can hook you up with the Studio 7 demo.  Maybe the Studio 8 demo if we have any.

so you can try it out before to see if you like it.


Email any questions too.

I one of the support supervisors over here.

Premier is great, but who wants to pay 600 bucks, Studio will do well for ya, if you just need something fun.

[capt. apathy]

thx,  e-mail sent

[SOB]

Capt...get Kazaa, then get Premier.  The learning curve is high, but so is the functionality.  OTOH, if you don't plan on doing much with it, Pinnacle Studio is a great little program.

Go here:  http://www.divx.com.  This is a great compression tool, but the people recieving the CDs will have to play them on their computer and have the codec installed.

Alternatively, I'm pretty sure you can fit close to 60 minutes on a CD in Video CD format (mpeg).

You'll also need a program to burn the Video CD...if you don't have one, Nero is great.


SOB

[Eagler]

Originally posted by SOB
Capt...get Kazaa, then get Premier..........
SOB

LOL

Make sure you have your "Get out of jail free card"

ppl wonder whats wrong with P2P, this is whats screwing it up, not ur $10 music CD's.

[GtoRA2]

Stuff run into a problem with it?