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Posted by cmashieldscapting on 03/26/06 01:09
Someone on another forum suggested borrowing a digital camera, and more
than one here suggested purchasing a better editing program. On the
better editing program, since I am so nearly done editing the project,
I fear getting anything new now which may mess it up, but do plan to
upgrade before doing another project.
On borrowing a digital video camera, yes, if it came down to that I
could. One of my best friends just bought, and I mean JUST bought one.
It would not have been available to me during all the previous. (I
didn't ask if my friend's camera has a FireWire connection, but she
does something on it with her computer, sooo.) I've decided to go
forward rather than back.
If I hadn't bought all the other equipment (to import my footage to
iMovie) I wouldn't be able to convert other things, such as old VHS
tapes, for myself and others. I also hope to master Toast and DVD
burning. Trouble is, I couldn't go forward on finishing the project
with this unwanted bit of audio stuck there in such a way I can't
remove it. There wouldn't have been so much confusion if I'd
discovered earlier that the problem was down where the audio plays
(either in timeline view or clips view), not in the clip itself. I'm
enough of a perfectionist to want to throw out the garbage, not just
work around it, but this was good as I was able to find an earlier
version of the project in iMovie and fix the opening titles problem
without redoing the titles.
To remove the phantom sound, I even tried copying the clip about five
times and deleting it that many times, in case the sound got copied
more than once, maybe deleting enough times would cure it, but it
didn't. So finally I put five minutes of black space into the problem
area. Sure enough, that cures it by moving the clip past the problem
area. Of course if it's possible to edit in Toast, I'll just edit the
black space to ten seconds, if not, I'll put it all on as is and only
dub a few seconds, not the whole five minutes, onto the VHS tape.
Now IF NOTHING ELSE GOES WRONG, I HOPE to finish the editing, transfer
the project to Toast, if possible do any necessary editing there, and
burn a DVD. SHOULD ALL ATTEMPTS FAIL and I am on my knees in a fit of
frustration, I can call my friend, borrow the camera, and see if I can
just export from iMovie to the camera and then dub it straight from
there to VHS. This would be another step, though, and might result in
more of a generational loss than going straight from iMovie to Toast to
DVD, so I told her not to expect a call from me about this unless I
find myself in an extremity of desperation. It's actually good my
friend only just bought her camera as I've been desperate several times
over the last months, but I am learning--"All things in good time."
I'd like to thank all the kind people online who took time with this
and had patience regarding it. Thanks to their help I am being enabled
to learn many things and make resolutions about how to go about things
next time.
Cori
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