Video Editing and Capture

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Hi,

I've been down the MM2 (Movie Maker) road all day with no success in
transferring video from my Cam to the PC.

I'm just curious before I splurge and spend tomorrow.

Anyone think my problems with MM2 will be indicative of future problems with
something like Adobe Premiere Elements? Heck, my laptop clearly communicates
with my DV Cam and I can easily preview what I've got on it through
Explorer.

Mind you my laptop's loaded with plenty of resources and more....plus my
system's plenty up to date.

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"Donald Link" <linkd@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:56:08 GMT, "WhoTurnedOffTheLights"
> <Lights@light0987654321.com> wrote:
>
>>I've been down the MM2 (Movie Maker) road all day with no success in
>>transferring video from my Cam to the PC.
>>
>>Anyone think my problems with MM2 will be indicative of future problems
>>with
>>something like Adobe Premiere Elements? Heck, my laptop clearly
>>communicates
>>with my DV Cam and I can easily preview what I've got on it through
>>Explorer.
>>

> Have you given some thought to Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus. You should. It
> can capture, edit and burn from one program and do them all well.
>
>>Mind you my laptop's loaded with plenty of resources and more....plus my
>>system's plenty up to date.

Hmmm, just quickly read some of the reviews on Zdnet and PCmag. Looks swell!
Is having to additionally buy the MPEG encoder the norm?

.....btw, I finally got my stuff to work on MM2 but it's never gonna be
enough for me I can tell already.

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WhoTurnedOffTheLights wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been down the MM2 (Movie Maker) road all day with no success in
> transferring video from my Cam to the PC.
>
> I'm just curious before I splurge and spend tomorrow.
>
> Anyone think my problems with MM2 will be indicative of future problems with
> something like Adobe Premiere Elements? Heck, my laptop clearly communicates
> with my DV Cam and I can easily preview what I've got on it through
> Explorer.
>

How are you communicating with your DV cam? A Firewire connection is the
typical and preferred method of transfering video from a DV cam to a
computer.

Your video camera? What kind? What media are you recording on? Is this
one of those minidisk cameras? Not much familiar with MM, but it may not
play nice with the MPG files created by a minidisk.

If your on DVtape, perhaps try Scenealayzer
http://www.scenalyzer.com/main.html
Working trail version can be D/L'ed and would give you a seperate app to
check your captures problems against.

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"Jack Perry" <vidEOWpro401234@optonline.net> wrote in message
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>
> Go for Premier Elements
>
> it has many of the same features as Premier Pro but is a bit easier to
> learn and the.......

> .....Pinnacle Studio is a BUSINESS PLATFORM designed to tease you with
> more
>

Too bad Compusa's price went up to $149 for the combo but I can still get it
for $129 at J&R over here.

btw, I'm wondering, I read some reviews as to how poorly Pinnacle handled
anything beyond 15 minutes or so.

Does Premiere Elements do okay with say, 30 minutes or more?
(That is, allowing one has enough resources on their PC.)

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WhoTurnedOffTheLights wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been down the MM2 (Movie Maker) road all day with no success in
> transferring video from my Cam to the PC.
>
> I'm just curious before I splurge and spend tomorrow.
>
> Anyone think my problems with MM2 will be indicative of future problems with
> something like Adobe Premiere Elements? Heck, my laptop clearly communicates
> with my DV Cam and I can easily preview what I've got on it through
> Explorer.
>
> Mind you my laptop's loaded with plenty of resources and more....plus my
> system's plenty up to date.

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"Mike Kujbida" <kujfam@xplornet.com> wrote in message
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>
> marks542004@yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>> Sony Vegas Movie Studio 4.0 package. Video editing and DVD authoring
>> for around $100 us. Then if you need more upgrade to Vegas 5 or maybe
>> by that time 6.0
>
>
> I second marks542004's suggestion for Vegas (Movie Studio+DVD). It's
> only $90 right now and, like it's big brother Vegas (version 6 came out
> in April BTW), is a very nice piece of software. Download the trial
> version and play with it for a while.

Thank you Marks, Mike and everyone else!!!! I appreciate all this input.

But I went out and purchased the Adobe Bundle this afternoon. Premiere
Elements with PhotoShop. Maybe I'll come back and post my findings after
I've played with it a little.

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"Jack Perry" <vidEOWpro401234@optonline.net> wrote in message
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>I brought the wrong laptop with me last summer on a weekend vacation
>thing,
>
> the one that only had Premier Elements on it and I was forced to edit a
> 2.5 hr
>
> multicamera shoot with it and it worked like a champ even burning a simple
> but
>
> elegant DVD.. that I got paid almost too well for.
>

Dude! I'm so impressed with what I've got right now! As I'd mentioned, I
purchased it this afternoon with the Photoshop bundle.
Awesome! I mean totally awesome. I'm already at the point I expected to be
at a week ahead. Oye! Since it's jumpstarted me, I now have to worry about
my choreography and how to put my separate videos into one piece! Ack!

Yo! Thanks for the advice. I'm quite happy with my purchase and recommend it
to anyone with the proper resources as well.
Best to ya!

PS...it's like peanuts. Once I picked it up, I can't put it down! I haven't
even been through it's tutorials and I already know what I'm doing. Like a
kid on Christmas Eve, I can't wait 'till tomorrow to find out what else it
can do! Thanks again Buddy!

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"Jack Perry" <vidEOWpro401234@optonline.net> wrote in message
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>
> Glad you like it
>
> it's kind of a pandora's box though,
>
> once you master it you'll easily segue' into Premier Pro when the time is
> right
>
> if you ever need to. Hopefully you got Photoshop Elements Version 3 as
> well,
>
> PE3 has most of the features that I needed from Photoshop CS, without the
> $600
>
> price tag
>
> good luck

How does it compare to "Gimp2" at $0.00?

Luck;
Ken