My 80+ year old father-in-law recently sat down and recorded his life story on video. As the only computer literate person in the family, I've volunteered to edit onto DVDs for the rest of the family.
The problem isn't that I don't want to do it--It's truly a labor of love. The problem is that where I was expecting about 30 or maybe 45 minutes of tape, he has sent me almost three hours of tape! This is way more gigs than my harddrive can handle as captured video. Since a lot of it is stuff that can be edited out (like where he is thumbing through his notes, or saying nothing while he thinks) I'm pretty sure I can get the finished project down to something manageable like about 30 minutes or so.
Since I obviously can't capture the entire thing onto my computer, I'm wanting to break it into segments like where he talks about his parents, about his time in the CCC, his military service, etc. I will then capture these segments onto my computer one at a time.
Now here's my question. Suppose I follow this workflow process:
1) Capture one segment like his time in the CCC onto my computer (about 10 minutes of video)
2) Use Movie Studio Platinum to edit it and clean it up--take out the pauses, add some photos of the people he talks about, and put in some titles.
3) Render this competed segment into the files for a DVD like Movie Studio does, titling it something like CCCLife
4) Copy the originally captured AVI file onto a disk (DVD data) to save along with the media files for the Movie Studio project, but leave the rendered files Movie Studio made intact on my machine.
5) Free up the disk space from the avi and project files (but not the rendered files) and capture the next segment, edit it, render it, then save it as data on a data DVD, again leaving the rendered files on my machine.
6) When all the segments have been completed, use DVD Architect to put all the rendered segments together and burn DVDs from that.
Does this make sense?
Will this work?
Is there an easier way?
Any suggestions or comments or anything will definitely be helpful. These tapes and this project are priceless and I really want to do it right.
Pamela Van Nest
The problem isn't that I don't want to do it--It's truly a labor of love. The problem is that where I was expecting about 30 or maybe 45 minutes of tape, he has sent me almost three hours of tape! This is way more gigs than my harddrive can handle as captured video. Since a lot of it is stuff that can be edited out (like where he is thumbing through his notes, or saying nothing while he thinks) I'm pretty sure I can get the finished project down to something manageable like about 30 minutes or so.
Since I obviously can't capture the entire thing onto my computer, I'm wanting to break it into segments like where he talks about his parents, about his time in the CCC, his military service, etc. I will then capture these segments onto my computer one at a time.
Now here's my question. Suppose I follow this workflow process:
1) Capture one segment like his time in the CCC onto my computer (about 10 minutes of video)
2) Use Movie Studio Platinum to edit it and clean it up--take out the pauses, add some photos of the people he talks about, and put in some titles.
3) Render this competed segment into the files for a DVD like Movie Studio does, titling it something like CCCLife
4) Copy the originally captured AVI file onto a disk (DVD data) to save along with the media files for the Movie Studio project, but leave the rendered files Movie Studio made intact on my machine.
5) Free up the disk space from the avi and project files (but not the rendered files) and capture the next segment, edit it, render it, then save it as data on a data DVD, again leaving the rendered files on my machine.
6) When all the segments have been completed, use DVD Architect to put all the rendered segments together and burn DVDs from that.
Does this make sense?
Will this work?
Is there an easier way?
Any suggestions or comments or anything will definitely be helpful. These tapes and this project are priceless and I really want to do it right.
Pamela Van Nest