[olug] Editing and reburning home-made DVDs.

[Will Jamieson Studio]

I suggest trying a couple of these trial versions based on Sony Vegas
Pro...the consumer versions start at $40...looks like there's a combined
editor and dvd creator for $55 (Vegas Movie Studio). Vegas runs well on a
minimal system...after editing you can render to several formats including
the dvd .mp2 format.

As for Linux you have Cinelerra, which has a hideous gui, difficult to use.
There's Kino which is mainly a cuts only editor.

On Mac you have the bundled iMovie HD, good for basic cuts and dissolves,
basic CG pre-sets, and audio manipulation, and linked to iDVD.   To get
fancy you can spend a $1000 for Final Cut Pro.

If you already have a PC, I'd go with one of the Vegas flavors.

BTW, I've found the DivX codecs to be great for rendering HD video for
YouTube uploads.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/trials

On 11/25/09, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
> A friend of mine sent this question to me:
> == begin ==
> I made copies of many VHS home movies onto DVDs.  Most of these VHS
> tapes were recorded between 25 and 30 years ago in LP or SLP mode (4
> or 6 hour), so the quality was marginal at best.  I did the copying
> using a consumer VHS->DVD copier.  The copier had three modes, XP, SP,
> and LP (1, 2, and 4 hour modes).   I chose SP mode.
>
> The copy quality was decent and nicely preserved the original VHS
> movies.  However, I'd like to rip the new DVDs to PC file format so
> that I can edit them (splice, make titles, chapters, etc.) and then
> burn them back onto DVD.  As you might imagine, this poses an array of
> choices such as codec, sample rates, compression formats.
>
> I ripped the DVDs using the Xvid AVI codec that came with my ripper
> utility.  Xvid is usually ranked highest in quality.  However, when I
> burn the results back to DVD using Windows DVD Maker, there's too much
> quality loss / pixilization when I compare against the original DVD
> copy.
>
> I'm torn right now between abandoning my attempts at editing and just
> cloning the copied DVDs.  But I'd prefer to edit if I can.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions for the best codec to use?  Best software
> to make this happen?  I'll take any advice!
> == end ==
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers I can throw his way?
> He's a Linux user too, so if there is a great tool you'd recommend to
> use under there he would easily be able to use it.
>
> Dan
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