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Posted by FCP User on 05/29/07 02:07
In article <1180196774.786709.100660@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
Mad Scientist Jr <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a number of videos of my band playing where we just stuck a
> couple of cameras on a tripod, pointed them at us, and played for an
> hour or two. One camera is a tapeless Aiptek camera and creates a ASF
> file (MPEG4, 640x480, 30fps) and another is a digital camera in video
> mode that creates a MOV file (quicktime, 320x240, 15fps). At this
> point we have accumulated quite a few performances, and I don't really
> have the time (or disk space) to convert these to DV-AVI, load them
> into Premiere, and edit them. Are there any good apps (preferably
> freeware but I'll buy one if it's good + affordable) that will take
> our video files (must work with both the ASF and MOV) and
> automatically split them up into chapters and burn them to a DVD (with
> thumbnails for each chapter)? I really don't care how it splits them
> up - it can just create a new chapter every five minutes. There aren't
> really scene changes - the cameras just stayed on the whole time - but
> it would be a nice bonus if the app could detect changes in the audio
> (ie when the band starts or stops playing) and start new chapters
> based on that - but it's not crucial. Any recommendations or help
> would be much appreciated!
Jeez, this is NOT a job that you need to get a computer involved with.
Just buy/borrow/rent any recent standalone DVD recorder.
I use a Phillips, but the brand is of no consequence.
Hit "RECORD" on it while you play back the video in real time from the
camera.
If you want chapters every "n" minutes, most DVD recorders are happy to
comply.
And the better ones will be all to happy to give you lovely little
screen of chapter thumbnails at the end.
While it's converting the odd video formats to standard MPEG2 and buring
them to DVD's use your computer to do something useful.
FWIW.
--
Bill Davis
StartEditingNow.com
DVD editing instruction with Multi-Track Movies
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