I have a mini-DV camera that I seldom use, but brought to my buddy’s wedding three years ago. I was the best man, so we had our mutual buddy operate the camera throughout the ceremony. Unfortunately, just before an otherwise wonderful ceremony, he blurts out a racial slur while the film is still rolling…:smack: Let’s just say, given the composition of this family, it makes it ESPECIALLY inappropriate to have on video.
So I used my FireWire and uploaded the file to my Mac mini some three years ago, waiting to find something that would crop out that last little bit from the video. Unhooked the Mac mini, put it on a shelf. Now, Bride and Groom are coming back home after living on the California coast for the past few years, and they wanna see the video. I gotta finally fix this bloody thing.
What’s the easiest, cheapest way of trimming the back end of this video file? And presuming I can find a DVD burner, how do I go about getting it onto a format he can copy, and send to relatives to watch as well?
I forgot to mention that the mac mini in question does not (I think) have a DVD burner. So it would involve converting the cropped file on another computer (probably Linux/Windows)
Just to be sure: the mac mini has no DVD drive at all, or has just a DVD reader?
iMovie + iDVD will let you edit the video into a DVD, then create as final output a “disk image” of the DVD, which can be copied to any other computer and directly burned to a disc there. You do not have to convert anything on the other computer.
Edit: I just looked at the iDVD in my Mac. There’s a “OneStep” DVD maker that takes the video directly from the camera (camera in VCR playback mode) and burns it to a DVD. Not sure how much editing it lets you do though.
Also, you can hook up an external DVD writer to the Mac mini via USB to burn a disc without having to get another computer involved.
