Help plz: Digital Video Editing (from DV camcorder) ?

[Guest madu]

Was wondering if anyone could help me with my video project??

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Report on Scotland :D

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2 Hours of footage

Canon Video Camera (with DV out)

DV-Firewire cable

Dell Laptop

Time (a lot) :lol:

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PIII 1133MHz

512MB RAM

32MB VRAM

15GB Logical Drive

Windows XP Pro

I am planning on making a video clip/report. I wanna make about 30min clip of 130min footage with adding/removing/editing soundtrack, cutting scenes, adding effects and so on. I was wondering if you could help me with a few tips on the subject please :( I am concerned with space, but have external 100GB spare.

- What software(s) do I need?

- How do I capture?

- Can/should I capture & encode at same time?

- How does audio editing work? Volume leveling and noise reduction?

- Any other tips or hints?

- How to make a DVD?

- How to encode it when finished editing?

Thanks for advice!

[Guest PritenC]

Software i recommend is either Adobe Premiere or Pinnacle studio.

You can try http://www.dvdrhelp.com/ for quite a lot of help with all types of video

[Guest kyrkesmith]

Yeah, Adobe Premiere is undoubtedly the best. Unfortunately, the price tag reflects this.