donny
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Reged: 09/06/2005
Posts: 95
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I have been asked to find an inexpensive and fairly simple video editing program.It is to edit HI-8 format to DVD for viewing on a television.I think the actual editing would be quite straight-forward with nothing fancy.
Is there such a program?
Any help appreciated.
Don
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Roger_Provins
Made-it Man
Reged: 22/10/2005
Posts: 3220
Loc: Gloucester, UK
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Adobe Premier Elements might be worth a <look>.
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Rog
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donny
journeyman
Reged: 09/06/2005
Posts: 95
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Roger,
Being a long time user of Photoshop I should be able to pass on your recommendation to my son-in-law with no hesitation.I have always been happy with Adobe for stills and am confident that their video program should be equally good.
Thank you for your quick reply,
Don
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Malcolm_Stewart
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 11/07/2005
Posts: 2725
Loc: Milton Keynes, UK
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When importing video into a computer, the hardware can also influence how well the software behaves. Unlike using Photoshop to edit still images, video requires quite a bit of action on the fly; and large and fast HDDs, DMA enabled memory can all play a part. Recent computers are probably fine, but modestly specified PCs older than a few years may be a problem.
FTR - I use VideoStudio 11.5+ successfully on a Win XP Home machine which is about 2 years old.
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Malcolm Stewart
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donny
journeyman
Reged: 09/06/2005
Posts: 95
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Malcolm,
I found the need for large and fast HDDs,although it is my son-in law that requires the editor , I thought I would have a look at the free download of Premier4 . It took ages to download but upon attempting to install Iwas told insufficient speed. I will now take a look at the program that you use,
Thanks,
Don
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Norman
Reged: 23/09/2004
Posts: 1642
Loc: Ealing, West London, UK
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Don't forget that Windows Movie Maker is free and comes bundled with Vista or is downloadable from Microsoft. It may be all he needs. I don't know what the minimum requirements are for Premiere Elements but older versions of Premiere will work if you can find them. I started using Premiere at version 5.0 and it worked fine on a PIII with 1gb of RAM. Have a look on eBay.
Don't forget you will need a way of getting the video onto disk and most/many analog/digital video devices will come with some editing software.
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Regards,
Norman
www.photobox.org.uk
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donny
journeyman
Reged: 09/06/2005
Posts: 95
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Thanks to everyone,I have now passed all advice to the son-in-law and will leave it to him. I prefer playing with my stills in Photoshop sooner than dabble in these new -fangled moving pictures.
Don
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