Re-doing a few family projects, need some advice

Vidmar wrote on 12/15/2008, 2:56 PM

This winter I’ll have some free time to go back and re-edit a few of my projects, but I wanted to get some advice from you professionals as to what I might want to change or re-do.

I’m not a professional video editor in any sense and all of my projects are for myself or my family, so please be kind!

I host a family website where I keep the finished projects here:
http://vidmar.homedns.org/alan/Home%20Videos/index.html

Two of these productions, “Night Raiders” and “50th Anniversary” were done with Windows Movie Maker and not Vegas. You can comment on them if you wish, but I don’t think I’ll be re-doing those.

The “Star Trek” was captured using a Canopus ADVC-100 and an older Mitsubishi SVHS deck, although the tape is just normal VHS. Is there any way to increase the video quality on this one? Filters etc?

The “1985” and “Alaska Adventure” productions used titles from Movie Maker and some titles from Vegas. I’ll probably try to do all of the titles in Vegas this time around. It would be nice if Vegas had some titles like Movie Maker though. Any thoughts here?

Again please be kind, but I do appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Vidmar

Comments

gogiants wrote on 12/17/2008, 2:04 PM

I took a quick peek at a few of the videos and they seem good... liked the reunion one, and I'm sure it was appreciated by the attendees.

I spent some time color correcting an old wedding video from VHS and was pretty pleased with the results using Vegas tutorials that showed up via Google.

Other than that, maybe not what you were hoping to here, but maybe use the time to make sure the older stuff is archived properly and instead produce new stuff and have a good time comparing how they look versus your past work!

Vidmar wrote on 12/20/2008, 2:16 PM

Thanks for taking a look. The Alaska video was my very first Vegas production. It took me 4 months to complete.

The Reunion video was also another long undertaking. Every single picture was scanned from slides using a Konica Minolta negative scanner. The slides were pretty beat up and a lot were completely unusable, the rest had quite a bit of my poor editing to get them where they are. But I guess my wife was happy even to have the slides in the first place.

I was wondering if you thought I should re-do some of the panning in the first half of the reunion video. When I go back and look at it, it seems like I had a lot of stop-go-stop panning on a number of pictures. Does that seem distracting to you?

Again thanks for the feedback.
Vidmar