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all I want is one program that will
1) accept a digital stream via firewire and save it as avi
2) allow me to slice and dice into pieces
3) rearrange the order of the pieces
4) include pieces from other similarly sliced and diced avis, then
5) burn the result to a DVD.
is that too much to ask???
when I saw that MyDVD 6 finally included the ability to select
encoding quality and fit more than an hour onto a single layer DVD, I
thought maybe they finally got their act together and shelled out to
buy it.
Importing video from cam goes fine. OK with step 1. I now have two avi
files for editing, each about 4 gig.
Now I am finding some other issues and I'm only on step 2...
- I add the first video to MyDVD and enter the edit video mode.
- problems with "edit video" mode that are making it impossible to
slice and dice. video preview frequently just shows grey - no picture.
Sometimes hitting the rewind button then play will restore a picture,
but dragging the slider to select a point to split the clip makes it
go away to grey again.
and another BIG problem:
- Sonic's tech help is not responsive
Has anyone successfully done what I am attempting with MyDVD 6? I'm
thinking that multi-gig files sliced and diced into 30 or 40 pieces is
straining the capabilities of my computer, but I don't understand why
that would result in a greyed out preview pane. Does this make any
sense?
At this point I am thinking of two solutions
1) Use moviemaker to split into smaller pieces and then import the
pieces into MyDVD for burning (gets away from my "single program"
principle... and I worry about quality losses when using multiple
programs that could involve multiple encodings)
2) Get a refund on MyDVD and buy a program that CAN do all that I want
to do. (any suggestions that don't cost a fortune???)
(NOTE: remove NO and SPAM but not the 2 to reply by email)
all I want is one program that will
1) accept a digital stream via firewire and save it as avi
2) allow me to slice and dice into pieces
3) rearrange the order of the pieces
4) include pieces from other similarly sliced and diced avis, then
5) burn the result to a DVD.
is that too much to ask???
when I saw that MyDVD 6 finally included the ability to select
encoding quality and fit more than an hour onto a single layer DVD, I
thought maybe they finally got their act together and shelled out to
buy it.
Importing video from cam goes fine. OK with step 1. I now have two avi
files for editing, each about 4 gig.
Now I am finding some other issues and I'm only on step 2...
- I add the first video to MyDVD and enter the edit video mode.
- problems with "edit video" mode that are making it impossible to
slice and dice. video preview frequently just shows grey - no picture.
Sometimes hitting the rewind button then play will restore a picture,
but dragging the slider to select a point to split the clip makes it
go away to grey again.
and another BIG problem:
- Sonic's tech help is not responsive
Has anyone successfully done what I am attempting with MyDVD 6? I'm
thinking that multi-gig files sliced and diced into 30 or 40 pieces is
straining the capabilities of my computer, but I don't understand why
that would result in a greyed out preview pane. Does this make any
sense?
At this point I am thinking of two solutions
1) Use moviemaker to split into smaller pieces and then import the
pieces into MyDVD for burning (gets away from my "single program"
principle... and I worry about quality losses when using multiple
programs that could involve multiple encodings)
2) Get a refund on MyDVD and buy a program that CAN do all that I want
to do. (any suggestions that don't cost a fortune???)
(NOTE: remove NO and SPAM but not the 2 to reply by email)
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