Topic: Digital Video
started by: joelthegreat
Posted by joelthegreat on Jun. 13 2002,18:14
Anyone recomend a program to edit .avi's? A friend of mine has a digital camera (fujifilm 2600z or something) and he took a video of me on it and it's sideways and I want to edit it to make it cool. Any suggestions?
Posted by veistran on Jun. 13 2002,18:29
/me waits for CaptainEO
Posted by joelthegreat on Jun. 14 2002,17:45
Good, wait all the fuck you want. It still doesn't answer my fucking question damnit. You people are very very unhelpful. That's what I should expect from people that sit around and play on the computer all day. You fuckheads are just like me damnit! LAZY! (and cool)
(I don't mean to offend anyone...just not happy) 
Posted by RadioActive on Jun. 15 2002,15:29
don't know about the best, and it's probably not the easiest, but you can give VirtualDub a shot.
Posted by just_dave on Jun. 15 2002,17:35
Best i have ever used was Adobe Premier. Its the standard in dv editing. Comes with most dv capture cards to.dave
Posted by CNCJake on Jun. 16 2002,19:42
i personally favor vegas video from sonic foundry.
Posted by Beldurin on Jun. 16 2002,20:51
Personal preference, if you can get access to one, is to use an Avid station. Of course, unless you're at a editing studio or a university media lab, your chances of getting said access is pretty damn slim.
Posted by just_dave on Jun. 17 2002,03:51
| Quote (Beldurin @ 16 June 2002,03:51) |
| Personal preference, if you can get access to one, is to use an Avid station. Of course, unless you're at a editing studio or a university media lab, your chances of getting said access is pretty damn slim. |
This is so true a freaking avid lab rocks, I have used fast edit to (i think its like a low end made by avid, not sure though) and all digital remotes for media decks rocked. Worked on one when I went to film school. Avid kicks butt... but I recommended premier cause your average joe can't get to an avid station.
The avid editor i used had two 21" trintron's with roland studio sound.. and 56 gig video area disks..... it was a mac with like 512 megs ram dont know what processor never got around to asking..
Posted by Beldurin on Jun. 17 2002,03:57
| Quote (just_dave @ 16 June 2002,21:51) | ||
This is so true a freaking avid lab rocks, I have used fast edit to (i think its like a low end made by avid, not sure though) and all digital remotes for media decks rocked. Worked on one when I went to film school. Avid kicks butt... but I recommended premier cause your average joe can't get to an avid station. The avid editor i used had two 21" trintron's with roland studio sound.. and 56 gig video area disks..... it was a mac with like 512 megs ram dont know what processor never got around to asking.. |
Yeah, just got done producing an hour long educational video on "Streaming Video over an IP Network." Did almost all of the editing myself (~50 hrs in less than a week). Filmed in the WIPB studios and edited in the media lab.
8 Avid DV stations, Mini-DV, DVC Pro, and SVHS decks, MANY gigs of video storage, 3 monitors/station, etc, etc, etc...
Posted by just_dave on Jun. 17 2002,17:41
| Quote (Beldurin @ 16 June 2002,10:57) | ||
This is so true a freaking avid lab rocks, I have used fast edit to (i think its like a low end made by avid, not sure though) and all digital remotes for media decks rocked. Worked on one when I went to film school. Avid kicks butt... but I recommended premier cause your average joe can't get to an avid station. The avid editor i used had two 21" trintron's with roland studio sound.. and 56 gig video area disks..... it was a mac with like 512 megs ram dont know what processor never got around to asking..[/quote] Yeah, just got done producing an hour long educational video on "Streaming Video over an IP Network." Did almost all of the editing myself (~50 hrs in less than a week). Filmed in the WIPB studios and edited in the media lab. 8 Avid DV stations, Mini-DV, DVC Pro, and SVHS decks, MANY gigs of video storage, 3 monitors/station, etc, etc, etc... |
What part of blow me did I leave out? LOL you suck man I would love to be able to play around with all that.
Posted by joelthegreat on Jun. 17 2002,17:45
Well I have Premiere, the damn thing won't read the codec that the camera captures the avi in. It's just at home. No school lab or anything, I actually have a job and am not in college...But I do miss those days playing in a computer lab with shit that wasn't mine...anyways. Thank you for the suggestions. 
Posted by just_dave on Jun. 17 2002,18:18
| Quote (joelthegreat @ 17 June 2002,00:45) |
| Well I have Premiere, the damn thing won't read the codec that the camera captures the avi in. It's just at home. No school lab or anything, I actually have a job and am not in college...But I do miss those days playing in a computer lab with shit that wasn't mine...anyways. Thank you for the suggestions. |
Which was installed first the codec or Premier... I had a miro capture card that was a pain .. it had to be installed before premier then premier would pick it up. Maybe you can play around in the prefrences and force load it
*shrugs*
Posted by joelthegreat on Jun. 17 2002,20:17
Well the thing is I don't know what codec it uses. Premeire doesn't have it which is why I can't open it in premiere...it runs fine in the like windows media player and all. And fujifilm.com has no info on whatever codec it uses for the video from the camera...maybe I should waste my afternoon on the phone getting through their maze just to find out?ick.
Posted by ^Oni^ on Jun. 17 2002,22:31
My two cents (as I'm not totally into the DV thing):Grab the Nimo Codec Pack. I've been doing alot of avi to mpg conversions in the past few days and I haven't run across one that I don't have the codec for now.
Posted by just_dave on Jun. 17 2002,23:37
| Quote (joelthegreat @ 17 June 2002,00:45) |
| Well I have Premiere, the damn thing won't read the codec that the camera captures the avi in. It's just at home. No school lab or anything, I actually have a job and am not in college...But I do miss those days playing in a computer lab with shit that wasn't mine...anyways. Thank you for the suggestions. |
im guessing that it transfers via firewire to the computer.... and if your computer see's it when you hook it up, try choosing it as a capture device from firewire in preimer .. I cant remember totally how its done.. but its worth a work around.
It should tell in the manual with the camera what codec or whatever .. but I am not sure. But thats my guess.
dave
Posted by CaptainEO on Jun. 20 2002,10:10
For simple things like rotating the video or recompressing it, I highly recommend Virtual Dub. (< http://virtualdub.sf.net >). It has saved my butt many times, and best of all it's Free Software.For more complex work where you are editing multiple shots together and adding sound, then you will want a full editing program like Avid, Final Cut, or Vegas. Do not get Premiere, it looks good at first but it has tons of bugs and mis-features. (reliability-wise it's the total opposite of Photoshop)...