All i know is windows movie maker is absolute pants, it crashes everytime i try and make a vid on there. I have used the online editor, jaycut but it takes an age to upload hd fottage unless ur on 10 meg plus broad band
PD7 hasn't been 100% reliable, but it does have some nice features. Not sure if it handles HD, but I don't need that right now, and for around £15 it's done the job I wanted it for. It seems to be much quicker than Pinnacle too, when rendering movies for DVD. I used to have to leave it running overnight to produce a DVD, but it's much quicker now (I have upgraded the PC too, however).
Wacky, I use a programme called VideoDub. Nothing like the top of the range programmes on the market but for quick and simple editing, it's pretty good. With the free version, you can only produce AVI files and one or two more (if I remember rightly) but Youtube accepts AVI and uploads it quickly.
Do you mean VirtualDub? If so that what I use for basic editring jobs. If after that I want to do nice effects I use Adobe Prmiere or Adobe After Effects.
Problem is that all easy to learn editing programs are limited and after a while get in your way, the fast stuff in general is harder to use initailly but well worth learning.
Hello - did I just wake on a new planet this morning or suffer some sort of timewarp overnight? - or have you all been to the pub as youa re all taking total bollocks
"Cyberlink power director" - wasn't he in Bladerunner?
"Virtual Dub" - not heard of them - do they have an album out yet?
"We use this at my school" "For the price its a mid way editor" - well it don't work as my boy goes to Dougs school and despite asking for him to be edited many many times he still comes home just the same
"can only produce AVI files and one or two more (if I remember rightly) but Youtube accepts AVI and uploads it quickly."...... is that tiwanese or sommat?
"I need to download the right codec' ?" - yea man I did that and the sidestand has stayed on eversince....
"I used to have to leave it running overnight to produce a DVD, but it's much quicker now" - Mate just pop into HMV or Virgin they have them there on the shelves - thats how i get mine, and then you can get a DVD right away - they have a good selection as well....No need to wait all night - you could get Priates of the Carribiean, or a similar movie and watch it straight away!
UrbanJohn wrote:Wacky, I use a programme called VideoDub.
Do you mean VirtualDub? If so that what I use for basic editring jobs. If after that I want to do nice effects I use Adobe Prmiere or Adobe After Effects.
Problem is that all easy to learn editing programs are limited and after a while get in your way, the fast stuff in general is harder to use initailly but well worth learning.
So it is Rich; although VideoDub is another editing programme......just not the one I wanted to say.
JT. I swear drunk I wasn't. I had a tipple but my post was sincere. AVI is a type of video file.
I'm guessing most of you have seen the edited footage I post and I hope you'd agreed when I say that I'm very happy with it video quality wise.
I use Windows Movie Maker (WMM) but when I upgraded from my GoPro to my GoPro HD I realised that the MPEG4 file format of the GoPro HD was not supported by WMM. It was at this juncture I made a plea for help to which Rich4T replied a talked me through how to get the vids I shoot into WMM. Basically I use a programme called WinAVI to convert the MPEG4 raw format to AVI which WMM accepts. There is little or no loss of the HD quality in doing this. I then drag and drop the vids into WMM, edit them as I wish then save the movie. It saves as a WMA file (Windows Media Audio/Video) which is then up-loadable to YouTube.
I agree with what others have posted in this thread, WMM is NOT without its problems in terms of repeated crashing so I'm now in the habit of saving my 'project' every time I do some editing, which is annoying. Also, when uploading a 10 min (max length) HD vid to YouTube it taken about 20mins! (having just conducted an upload speed test I can tell you it's 0.48Mb/s for me on whatever Virgin package I'm on)
Hello - did I just wake on a new planet this morning or suffer some sort of timewarp overnight? - or have you all been to the pub as youa re all taking total bollocks
"Cyberlink power director" - wasn't he in Bladerunner?
"Virtual Dub" - not heard of them - do they have an album out yet?
"We use this at my school" "For the price its a mid way editor" - well it don't work as my boy goes to Dougs school and despite asking for him to be edited many many times he still comes home just the same
"can only produce AVI files and one or two more (if I remember rightly) but Youtube accepts AVI and uploads it quickly."...... is that tiwanese or sommat?
"I need to download the right codec' ?" - yea man I did that and the sidestand has stayed on eversince....
"I used to have to leave it running overnight to produce a DVD, but it's much quicker now" - Mate just pop into HMV or Virgin they have them there on the shelves - thats how i get mine, and then you can get a DVD right away - they have a good selection as well....No need to wait all night - you could get Priates of the Carribiean, or a similar movie and watch it straight away!
Nah JT they are all talking "swahili, urdu or hindi" Must look for a gibberish to english phrase book on ebay.
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I had a look at Cyberlink PowerDirector 8 and was impressed by the look of it, so I've just installed it on my system and will have a play at some point.
Hopefully it'll turn out to be a good do it all program - thing is I don't have a camcorda at the moment..