I have recently purchased a Sony mini dv cam corder and have some footgae I want to bring on to the PC. I have got a fire wire card and cable and all seems to be working. I can import the footage to the PC with the standard picture package software that came with the cam corder however it seems pretty "basic" and I want to be able to change quality and frames etc etc.

What do you lot use for video editing?

Any recommendations of software packages, free preferably

 

adobe premiere is a goodun also avid express ment to be good to, havent used much else

 

Cheers mate, will look into those

Any one else?

 

pinnacle is very easy to use i have an older sony dv8 camcorder and have good results with it... might have to look at adobe tho now someone has mentioned it ..

 

 

Cheers all,

I looked up all of the options. Went with Pinnacle as it sounded pretty user friendly and playing about with it, seems like a good peice of kit so far, will do what I need I think

 

there are also some good effects you can add on to it aswell just started playing with 9 this week

 

i use pinnacle studio 9 which is very good and has some good advanced features. make sure you download...i mean buy hollywood fx pro for it as well

 

Ish, sorted, got 9 last night, and the effects were dloaded and cr&6fed, i mean.... purchased

 

Adam erm Pm me some details on the location of your purchase

 

Lee - u have pm

 

I have studio9 av/dv and it's pretty simple to use. Have you updated it to 9.4 via their site and if so is it now playing up when you try to change codecs and other menu type stuff?

 

What type of videos do I need to be creating? If I create AVI's in DV mode a 40 second clip is like 130MB! but is quality as per the film.

If I create a MPEG (still is about 28MEG ) the quality is shite

I know there are a few people who create vids of their cars etc on here, so what format do you use?

Cheers

Adam.

 

i just use the built in stuff... keep it simple and dont adjust it .. have got a few in the vids section
there is a web tab that gives various different sizes/quality .
i normally just use it to transfer to dvd or the web

 

for the web i usually use .wmv format

 

Got it, can make wma and real video stuff, normal quality for web streaming, only about a meg now

Cheers peeps