Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/29/08 15:17

"Bill Cotton" wrote ...
> "Arny Krueger" wrote...
> Portions snniped
> I am learning a lots from your and other posts.
> I have a Sony DCR SR80 Hard drive cancorder that has USB output. I
> cannot use any capture features from any progran that I have. Ulead 10
> Nero or window moviemaker. I have to download as a picture file and
> inport that to Moviemaker. I am thinking that I need to use a
> camcorder with Firewire output.

Yes, you are prevented from doing anything real-time with
a camcorder like that. OTOH, you have the advantage that
as soon as the program is done, you can download the video
from the camcorder much faster than real-time.

>> As far as after-the fact processing goes, I'm getting the following
>> timings for editing 90 minutes of NTSC program material with PE4 on a
>> 2 GB PC with a 6 GHz dual core Athlon64 under XP, running off a
>> single 250 GB 7200 rpm drive:

> What is PE4?

He likely means Adobe Premiere Elements, version 4.
PE4 is the "entry-level" version of one of the most popular
video editing applications currently available (Adobe Premiere)
It likely has many features that aren't available in Movie Maker,
and is likely faster as well.

>> (1) Open MPEG capture file which includes indexing and transcoding to
>> DV-AVI for PE4 processing - about 4 minutes.
>>
>> (2) Edit to trim the ends and overlay and align 4 pre-fabed titles
>> and a DVD menu with pointers to 3 places in the video - 4 minutes.

> Where can I pre-fabed titles and menu.

If you do the same kind of thing every week, you can save the
titles, menus, etc. and just edit them to update the content
rather than creating them from scratch every time.

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