silveradosheriff Posted January 28, 2007 Report Posted January 28, 2007 Just wondering what folks are using. It looks like Nero and Roxio Easy Media Creator are promising. Thanks!
mepps Posted January 28, 2007 Report Posted January 28, 2007 (edited) Yeah, if you have XP, you have Movie Maker - easy to use, but can crash randomly (at least for me) so make sure to save often! Here is a list of some others too: http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/softwarer...stfreesw_ro.htm Edited January 28, 2007 by mepps
Darrell Posted January 28, 2007 Report Posted January 28, 2007 Hey silveradosheriff, I can tell you that you pay for what you get. First thing is to decide "what" you want the software to do or how fancy you want to get. All consumer software does all about the same thing, but some do it better than other's when it comes to render times and real time playback. Video is VERY!!! cpu hungry and a resource hog when it comes to hard drive space, approximatly 13gig per hour. If you need to clean up audio or do colour correction your pretty much out of luck with any software below $150.00. If your need is to just edit some home movies,create titles and put them on to DVD, I would highly recommend Adobe Premeire Elements, also Ulead Video Studio. Both comes with software that lets you output and create DVD's. Hope this helps, if ya have any other questions just ask. Darrell www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/ www.ulead.com/vs/runme.htm
mepps Posted January 28, 2007 Report Posted January 28, 2007 Avid is another choice (http://www.avid.com/freedv/) but I used it for a while a couple years back and the learning curve is much steaper.
Peter Panfish Posted January 28, 2007 Report Posted January 28, 2007 Or get a mac and make complete epics. I think Adobes really good though.
icefisherman Posted January 29, 2007 Report Posted January 29, 2007 Using Pinnacle studio 10 and am very happy with it. Does tons of stuff and very well too. Cheers, Ice Fisherman
ccmtcanada Posted January 29, 2007 Report Posted January 29, 2007 Using Pinnacle studio 10 and am very happy with it. Does tons of stuff and very well too. Cheers, Ice Fisherman I've have Pinnacle Studio as well...very happy with it.
silveradosheriff Posted January 29, 2007 Author Report Posted January 29, 2007 Thanks for the feedback - I'm trying the Freebie first and we'll see how that goes.
Darrell Posted January 29, 2007 Report Posted January 29, 2007 Or get a mac and make complete epics. I think Adobes really good though. Software doesnt make video look good, its the person using it.
Randy Posted January 29, 2007 Report Posted January 29, 2007 Hey Silveradosheriff, I'm no expert but have done a few home movies in my time. As was previously mentioned, all the video editing software does pretty much the same, except that the more expensive ones have more features and effects, and of course are more complicated ie sharp learning curve. For me, I like to KISS it and keep it simple. I mostly use Arcsoft's Showbiz that I got free with my DVD burner, since it is pretty easy to use (like Windows Movie Maker) and suits my purpose (I don't create feature length movies). However, I have also used Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere, Unlead Video Studio and Roxio, since depending on the project I'm doing one of these would have the feature or effect I wanted. If you are simply wanting to put together a home movie to share with family and friends, I'd say keep it simple, keep it cheap.
silveradosheriff Posted January 30, 2007 Author Report Posted January 30, 2007 Quick question - do any of these software packages handle a VOB file? - The windows movie maker does not. Thanks in advance.
Gerritt Posted January 30, 2007 Report Posted January 30, 2007 Or get a mac and make complete epics. I think Adobes really good though. Sing it from the rooftops!!! I got my mac just for that reason it is seamless compared to PC based apps. iDVD imovie HD.... NIiiiiiiiiiiice! Ps VOB files are DVD encoded files. and are located in your Video_TS folder... so long as you have all of them you can use DVD Decrypter. Gerritt.
silveradosheriff Posted January 30, 2007 Author Report Posted January 30, 2007 Thanks Gerritt - I have the files but can't open them in the windows media maker. For some reason it doesn't appear to support VOBs. :-(
mepps Posted January 30, 2007 Report Posted January 30, 2007 Google VOB to AVI converter (or to whatever format you want) Here is VOB to AVI converters top choice on google... http://www.allformp3.com/dvd-copy-software/vob-to-avi.htm Chances are you can find free software to convert just abotu any file type to another.
silveradosheriff Posted January 30, 2007 Author Report Posted January 30, 2007 Thanks Mepps - I'll give it a try tonight.
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