Posted October 3, 200519 yr I am old school and use NTSC 8mm Video Cassette. The Sharp Camcorder is great, the Dazzle still can reel it in, and I use Microsoft Windows Movie Maker along with MGI Videowave 4 to edit. At school they have DV camcorders but they use the dreaded Pinnacle 8. I am allowed to use the Pinnacle 9 machine because my package was selected to be burned on DVD. I HATE PINNACLE! So....what do you use to edit those home videos?
October 3, 200519 yr I am old school and use NTSC 8mm Video Cassette. The Sharp Camcorder is great, the Dazzle still can reel it in, and I use Microsoft Windows Movie Maker along with MGI Videowave 4 to edit. At school they have DV camcorders but they use the dreaded Pinnacle 8. I am allowed to use the Pinnacle 9 machine because my package was selected to be burned on DVD. I HATE PINNACLE! So....what do you use to edit those home videos? I don't know how to edit...Aren't home videos supposed to be candid? If you edit home videos, you leave out all the awkward, unintended shtuff.
October 3, 200519 yr Author The videos are not always of candid things. Sometimes it may be used for school or the business. Editing is needed.
October 3, 200519 yr The videos are not always of candid things. Sometimes it may be used for school or the business. Editing is needed. Oh, I thought you meant like family videos and stuff.
October 3, 200519 yr Author iMovie HD is very nice from what I have seen, but Windows Movie Maker 2 can keep up. Apple's Final Cut Pro and Adobe's Premiere are killer applications, but too expensive. I need to find something that edits nicely, works well, and makes nice graphics.
October 3, 200519 yr Final Cut Pro...real easy program to learn and use Edit: iMovie works pretty well for simple things if you just wanted to do that.
October 3, 200519 yr Author I use a Windows machine to edit. My iBook is an original 300mhz G3 Blueberry with 32 mb of RAM. :lol
October 3, 200519 yr These are what I use to edit the cable show I work on with my brother: Adobe Premiere 6.0 (an oldie but a goodie) Panasonic Optura Pi miniDV camcorder with FireWire/IEEE 1394/iLink Panasonic AG-DV1000 (video deck provided by the radio station we do the show for) Photoshop 6.0 and Illustrator 9.0 for graphics External FireWire Hard Drive (don't know the brand and that info) One of our computers Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 (when we need to export to DVD)
October 3, 200519 yr Author At school our Premiere computer is down, but it has Premiere 6.0 I think our switcher is a Panasonic AG-MX70 and we have a graphics computer with Photoshop to upload graphics to it. We have Premiere, Avid, and Pinnacle on the bunch of computers.
October 3, 200519 yr These are what I use to edit the cable show I work on with my brother: Adobe Premiere 6.0 (an oldie but a goodie) Panasonic Optura Pi miniDV camcorder with FireWire/IEEE 1394/iLink Panasonic AG-DV1000 (video deck provided by the radio station we do the show for) Photoshop 6.0 and Illustrator 9.0 for graphics External FireWire Hard Drive (don't know the brand and that info) One of our computers Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 (when we need to export to DVD) Wow - same here! :o Anyway, the FireWire HD is an Oxford Semiconductor 120 GB, 7200 RPM hard drive. (In editing, the general rule is to avoid the 5400 RPM models) Before we went to college and used our own software to edit the show, we edited out of South Portland Community Television in South Portland, ME, where we had experience with Final Cut Pro. Both Final Cut and Premiere has its advantages, but I like Premiere better (although I have not used the new Premiere Pro too much). Cape, if you wanted a program like Premiere you can buy an older educational version, and then upgrade to Premiere Pro through Adobe - the latest license agreement is the one that counts. So you could get the educational version for $349 (or whatever it is now) and get the upgrade for $149 (or whatever it is), and have a completely licensed version for $200-$300 less than if you bought the program outright.
October 3, 200519 yr Author Well, Premier is a heavy-duty program. I would like to be able to insert my graphics (I make them using The GIMP) over the video like I do with the switcher at school.
October 3, 200519 yr Author Checked your guys' show. Very nice production, I want to be able to make customized graphics similar to your lower-thirds and be able to impose it over the video. Premiere can do it, but if something less expensive can, that would be prefered.
October 3, 200519 yr If you want to see some of our work in action, you can visit http://yosuamedia.com/Mambo/index.php?opti...id=20&Itemid=42 . We have some clips of WMSJ Backstage (it's an older set of graphics, before the radio station rebranded), our CCYM "commercials" we made in 2001 (I am the host of the Millionaire-esque game), and a promotional video for the City of South Portland we made for our final HS senior community project (I narrate, albeit pretty badly!). We might put up a few more in the future.
October 4, 200519 yr Author Nice work there. Right now I do packages for Mariner's Morning News. I am so glad I am now producing packages instead of anchoring. I should have gone to the Premiere training the County offered. At least we are getting new camera and studio equipment around Christmas to join the editing bays. So far, I have done 3 packages...all pretty lame, but those were the assignments. Here are some of those packages:
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