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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Location: korea
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 Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:51 pm Post subject: video editing software |
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I am doing a play with my students for their parents at a summer camp. We have use of a projector and laptop. For the last group of kids we ended up making loads of background art etc... but to no avail, as all the work didn't really get appreciated.
This time I'm gonna go for a sound / video show. I want to take scenes from disney films to use as backdrops to our bible stories...
anyone know some good video editing software, preferably opensource/free, where I can capture video from dvd's to use as background ????
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think it is possible to capture video from DVD's, but if you watch the DVD on your computer and take screenshots you'll have stills that you can use as your background.
The only legitimately free video editing software I'm aware of is Jashaka though I haven't used it. If you do try it out, please let us know how it works.
Derrek will recommend Adobe Premiere, but the learning curve is incredibly steep. I would recommend Pinnacle Studio Plus which is incredibly easy and will do anything that a home enthusiast will ever need to do. Premiere is more for people doing pro stuff anyhow. |
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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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cool superhero,
Do you know of any dvd players (free/opensource) for the windows platform ??? |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| dbee wrote: |
cool superhero,
Do you know of any dvd players (free/opensource) for the windows platform ??? |
windows media player
real player (but you couldn't pay me to install that peice of spyware ridden crap) |
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Industrial Strength
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
| I would recommend Pinnacle Studio Plus which is incredibly easy and will do anything that a home enthusiast will ever need to do. |
Superhero, what version of Pinnacle are you running, and have you experienced the blue screens and lost videos during rendering that a lot of users have written about on other sites?
I'm also interested in video editing sw, but I haven't read many positive reviews of Pinnacle so far.
Thanks,
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I use Pinnacle Studio 8 and have no problems. It's a good program. |
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SuperHero
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using studio 9.4 and had some problems rendering a DVD, but the solution was easy. Finish editing and then render to DV-AVI after that add your dvd menus and render to DVD. When I did that no problem.
Also I never had a problem making an SVCD or VCD or any sort of web file...wmv, ram, mpeg etc... |
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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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I used the PEGASYS mpeg editor in the end and it worked out fine (nearly), the interface couldn't have been simpler, and it cut everything the way I wanted it to.
Unfortunately it didn't recognize the sound files on the dvd, and so I had no sound. But I wasn't too bothered about that since I didnt really need sound anyway.
You can get a 15day trial here if anyone's interested...
http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tme.html |
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