Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 I'm having some Super 8 and Hi-8 stuff that I shot a few years ago transferred to MPEG-4 on DVD. I was kinda interested in editing some of these and then burning them to DVD. I don't want to do anything fancy, I just want to chop some stuff out, maybe add some audio (narration or music - doesn't have to sync up with the video perfectly), that kind of thing. Really basic stuff. I've just never done it before. - Is iMovie a good application for the above? I can get it with iLife for about $50 (and I have an Apple gift card for $50). - Does iMovie easily import MPEG-4 and burn to DVD easily so I can view it on a DVD player later on? Suggestions and comments are greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lee Flier Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 I dunno, but while you've got a thread going about this... I'm trying to do the reverse kinda: rip some live video from a DVD and make it into a format suitable for YouTube (they prefer MP4), and be able to chop it up into individual songs. Any software that will do this and not cost an arm and a leg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 Lee - DVD Shrink will rip it for you to a VCD - it's free program. http://www.dvdshrink.org/ You then need a program to convert it to MP4. there are plenty here http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/free-vcd-to-mp4.html cheersjohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members spokenward Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 I'm an iLife version behind so I can't answer Ken's question. This may also involve QuickTime Pro for the H.264 QuickTime 7 Pro for Mac OS XEasily create movies for iPod or your mobile phone, capture movies in a single click, save movies from the web, share movies via email or .Mac, create stunning H.264 video, play movies in full screen, and much more. re: Lee's questionI have used the freeware DVD decrypter to extract video from DVD. This is no longer posted. You may find it in the wild. Currently I would recommend the full version of NERO 7. There are some substantial rebate programs for the retail package. It does a graceful job on MPEG-2 editing and MPEG-4 encoding. It will waste very little of your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lee Flier Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 Hey I just found a cool program through the link John posted, called AVS Video Tools. For 30 bucks it does everything I want and more... it's now happily ripping my DVD to the standards I asked for, quite easily it appears. http://avsmedia.com/VideoTools/index.aspx Yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 Yay!! - well now you face the same old problem from the audio past - disc size - suddenly your 80gig drive seems small as you quickly fill it with fat video files cheers john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 I bought a 300GB drive just to handle all the AES videos I did for the site. And I STILL had to blow away the uncompressed AVI rendered files after I converted them to M4V/MP4, or 300GB wouldn't have been nearly enough. Then again, I think the total AES footage is close to three hours, so it's a lot o' stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lee Flier Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 Well the other cool thing about this program is it lets you delete whatever you don't want even before you rip from DVD or whatever uncompressed format... so it's not too bad on disk space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 You might want to look at Ulead Video 10 - for $99 you can edit it to frame accuracy, add audio, draw audio volume curve etc and export to all formats including wmv, DVD, Mpeg, mp4 etc. cheersjohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ani Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 Originally posted by John Sayers You might want to look at Ulead Video 10 - for $99 you can edit it to frame accuracy, add audio, draw audio volume curve etc and export to all formats including wmv, DVD, Mpeg, mp4 etc.cheersjohn John, I use Ulead PhotoImpact 10 for all of my photo editing and it's been a really great program for my needs. I've never researched the Video 10 product; does it allow multiple music formats for importing the music tracks as well as the video formats? Also, do you know the maximum bit rate that is allowed for music applications; some programs are very limited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 23, 2006 Author Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 Originally posted by John Sayers You might want to look at Ulead Video 10 - for $99 you can edit it to frame accuracy, add audio, draw audio volume curve etc and export to all formats including wmv, DVD, Mpeg, mp4 etc. cheers john Thanks, I'll check into this. So is iMovie not something I should check into then? I really don't need anything fancy, just something that does what I mentioned in the first post. Thank you for all the answers. And yes, I know I'd likely get better results on an iMovie forum, but I figured that since we were all warm and fuzzy here, I'd check here first!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 Originally posted by Ani John, I use Ulead PhotoImpact 10 for all of my photo editing and it's been a really great program for my needs. I've never researched the Video 10 product; does it allow multiple music formats for importing the music tracks as well as the video formats? Also, do you know the maximum bit rate that is allowed for music applications; some programs are very limited. Ani - it allows you to import audio files and lay them on the music track, as opposed to the dialogue track. It allows all the known audio formats as far as I can see including wave through to mp4. I also forgot to mention the ability to add titles in any font and size plus you can resize the picture and add dissolves/cross fades between edits etc. There is a selection of various transitions etc. The video I posted of recently of Oasis Studio HERE was created using the program. I added the voice over later and the music you hear is from the original video track but turned down using a standard draw volume option. It's no Avid but for $99......... cheersjohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 23, 2006 Author Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 Here is something that is supposed to convert mpeg-4 easily so you can use it in iMovie, in case anyone looks this up later. Someone on the iMovie/Apple Forums site mentioned: "or connect Your Camera to a DVD-player and copy to tape or import through if Your Camera handles that... iMovie is a video edit app meant to work with firewire connected miniDV camcorders" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Is ULead Video 10 good for things like slow dissolves and that kind of thing? Would you say it's quite easy to use? As I mentioned, I really don't need anything fancy. I just want to easily edit my stuff and then spit it back out to DVD for viewing. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 Yes Ken - I found it easy to use. Took a day or so to figure it out. Yes you can import your video files, in all different formats and mix and match and join them together into one video - you can then export that new video in all kinds of formats right through to DVD authorising. BTW - I've just realised my version is Ulead Video Studio PLUS!still only $99 though. cheersjohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members timman6127 Posted October 23, 2006 Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 i-movie works great... especially for simple editing and voice over type stuff. The UI is intuitive and the integration with i-dvd (which also works great and is included in i-life) sets you up fine for burning your project to a menu driven dvd. As mentioned above, you can really blow through a bunch of hard disk space editing movies but if you got the space these aps work great. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 23, 2006 Author Members Share Posted October 23, 2006 Argh! I think ULead is Windows only! I'll talk to someone about iMovie and StreamClip later, since that apparently works (and it's free for me anyway, a good thing since I'm not doing this for any professional reasons anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members russrags Posted October 24, 2006 Members Share Posted October 24, 2006 Hey Ken, Wow I'm kinda doing the same thing. My mom just got back from a big European vacation and sent me all of her pictures. I'm in the process of PhotoShoping the pic's while she's picking out what order she wants them to appear in. I bought Sony-Vegas and am going to make a slide show set to music with her naration. It's going to be a lot of work, but something she'll treasure forever. Vegas came with Sony DVD Architect and has a boat load of features to make a really profesional looking DVD. We might have to compair a few notes. Good luck,Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted October 24, 2006 Author Members Share Posted October 24, 2006 Absolutely, Russ. I've seen advertisements for Sony Vegas and it looks great. For right now, I'm gonna assume that iMovie (largely because it seems easy to use and is free since I have an Apple gift certificate) is the way to go, coupled with StreamClip, something that converts MPEG-4 to something iMovie can read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fabian s Posted October 24, 2006 Members Share Posted October 24, 2006 I found iMovie really frustrating to use. It isn't non-destructive in the way that I expected it to be. I gave up on it and bought Final Cut Express, which is much more DAW like and a pleasure to edit with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted October 27, 2006 Members Share Posted October 27, 2006 Originally posted by Lee Flier I dunno, but while you've got a thread going about this... I'm trying to do the reverse kinda: rip some live video from a DVD and make it into a format suitable for YouTube (they prefer MP4), and be able to chop it up into individual songs.Any software that will do this and not cost an arm and a leg? There is a nice, fully working package, all for free, called: RipIt4Me http://www.ripit4me.org/ It is basically a "one click" solution. You can down shrink a dual layer DVD to a 4.7 GB media without visible loss... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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