Editing a video

[joshg678]

When you edit a video, do you keep all the clips on your hard drive after you are done editing it, or do you delete them?

[SharkTums]

I usually leave the clips on my computer until I have REALLY finished the segment. Meaning I've watched it on a tv, made an mpeg, made a dvd from it, and put a back up copy on a dv tape. (Yeah, I'm a bit anal!)

 

I always keep my batch files...forever! Just in case anything ever happened I could at least recapture quite easily and they take up almost no room.

 

Elissa "hope this answered your question!" Alvey

[benzo41190]

dont want to make a new topic:

 

I got fire wire card for my Win 98 computer, I dont really have much room for an (good) editer and I dont have movie maker. Can i use a digital camera software and make a DVD right out of the tape or should I just put the videos on a memory stick, put it in my digital camera, then put it on my computer.

[Martyn]

^I'm pretty confused by that, but if I am understanding you right I'll say:

 

I don't think you can use your digital camera software to capture the video or edit it.

If it's MiniDV you're using (not sure about that either) then you won't get much video onto a memory stick, as it's about one Gigabyte for four minutes of video.

But like I said, I'm not really understanding what you want to do.

[joshg678]

you have to get the video from the camcorder and record it on the hard drive and sutch because you can convert it in a good quality to be able to put on dvd.

 

Yes that does answer my question Elissa, thank you.

[benzo41190]

like use software to burn a VCD. Like you hook up your camera then click on burn VCD. Then I take those clips and put them in a mixing software that cam with a digital camera (it is like a video editer). My computer sucks and has very bad streaming video options, it is very choppy. I have a 1Gig memory card so I put the video clips on the memory card then transfer it to a computer. My computer plays back video clips off of my digital camera with very good quality. It is just when I try to stream my video that it turns out like crap.

[joshg678]

My computer is a athlon 64 3000+ with 1.25 gig of ram, 4 hard drives.

1) 74gb 10,000RPM raptor

2) 250gb 7200RPM

3) 120gb 7200RPM

4) 120gb 7200RPM

 

w00t!

I build computers for fun, yet.