hello all,
this is my first ever post. some friends and i have decided to make a movie and submit it to the film festival here so we are trying to make it look veeeery neato. Anywho- just a few questions.
1. We are poorer than poor and have a flimsy little cam corder. does the mainstream editing software work w/ that? where can we rent a nicer camera and how much would it cost (about?)
2. Editing Software! What's the best and how much does it cost?
thanks a trillion!
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what exactly is your camera? in terms of editing software, avid express pro is great. it runs around $1000, but if you go to ?url?journeyed.com?/url? you can get it for $300 (if you're a student). adobe premiere pro is also really good. if you want quick and easy editing, you can use pinnacle studio version 9, though it doesn't have nearly as many features as the others. that runs around $100.
what about the Apple software? iMovie?
i don't know. i've never tried it.
I certainly wouldn't recommend Avid to someone who's just starting out.I use it, but it's pretty much its own thing, and very different to most other editing packages (far less intuitive, IMHO).
What about the best editing software for someone on a tight budget who can't afford to spend $700-$1000 for Premiere/Avid/etc.? Are the $100 editing packages like Pinnacle or Premiere Elements or Vegas Movie Studio really worth anything for someone trying to do more than just edit home videos?
you can do some nifty stuff with premier... it's not the most intuitive design, but the learning curve isn't that steep.
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Pinnacle, apparently, is great, especially for the price. Another option is to get Adobe Premiere Elements, which includes a lot of the features of your regular Premiere, is quite good for the money too.
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I'd stay away from iMovie. I personally use Apple's Final Cut Pro, although there is a much cheaper stripped-down version called Final Cut Express. I vastly prefer this over Avid because I think it's much easier to use and it integrates very well with Photoshop, iDVD, Soundtrack, etc.
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I have a question of my own about the adobe premier elements, now when I was reading about it on the adobe website, it talks about when you're done editing and stuff you can put the finished product on DVD, but my question is, is it also possible to put the finished product on a VHS tape with adobe premier elements.
The answer is yes. You'll have to "print to tape" which means put it back onto your mini dv tape (the one inside your camcorder, im assuming it's mini dv) and then from that, you hook your camcorder up to a vcr and record it to a vcr tape.
ok, what would you do if the finished product is longer than the DV tape can hold, like if the finished product was 90 or so minutes and the DV tape can only hold 60 minutes.
Then you're a bit screwed unless you get a deck that can record full-size DV tapes :(.
However, many, if not all, DV cameras will produce a video output of whatever you send them by Firewire, so you don't always have to record to tape. I used to just output DV by Firewire to my TRV900 and record on an S-VHS deck attached to the analogue output from the camera.
Put it on dvd from your computer.
