Video Editing Software?

Factual Questions
1

I’ve got two big MPG files of the same event that two different people shot. What I’d like to do is splice segments of one into the other (IE: first 5 minutes are AAA.mpg then cut to 5.1 minutes into BBB.mpg for 8 minutes then back to AAA.mpg at 12 minutes for another 3 minutes, for example)

Is there software that can do this on a Windows system?

Any suggestions/recommendations?

Thanks

Fenris

2

Well, Adobe Premiere, of course, and Avid XPress or whatever it’s called.

If you’re asking “are there some cheap or free-with-the-OS packages for Windows computers” like a PC version of iMovie, that I don’t know.

3

QuickTime Pro
($30 registration I think) for the Mac platform allows simple editing of clips like you mentioned. It seemes to allow the same thing with the Windows
version.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/theater/edit.html

4

You can also do it with TMpeg, which is free. There is a short how-to-do-it type thing here: http://www.videohelp.com/tmpgencedit.htm

You can download the tool here: http://www.tmpgenc.net/

The first site has loads of guides and advice on just about all you ever wanted to know about digital video manipulation

5

My XP Home shipped with a video editor that also does video capture from my FireWire port with a DV camera plugged in. I use Pinnacle Studio just because I had it already and didn’t want to learn something else. Studio shipped with my FireWire port.

6

FWIW I like Ulead Video Studio. Much more intuitive than Permiere IMHO.

Also, be aware that video editing is about as system intensive as it gets so be prepared for long rendering times if you have to resize the video.

7

Microsoft has their “Movie Maker 2” software which is pretty good for basic stuff (I used it to make a DVD of my Christmas vacation for the in-laws) - it’s free also (although you have to pay to get some pre-made “transitions” and other eye candy), and a lot, LOT easier to use than TMpeg. However, I don’t know if it will allow you to “cut” the movie into clips or not and assemble the clips into the order you choose (I was using still pics for the DVD. I’ll be trying video for my Father’s Day trip next week.).

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