For our anniversary, I took clips from our wedding video, with some photos, and created a little music video. I slowed most of the events (clips) down a little, to get a little more "dreamy" video, and added stuff like the framing. I then created a Vimeo account and uploaded it to vimeo.
I wound up capturing the video (OLD VHS tape) to my hard drive multiple times. It just wasn't looking that good, and someone here recommended using my HV30 pass-through rather than the Canopus device I was using - the HV30 was much better. The Canopus would probably be great if I had S-Video out, but I don't.
Also, thanks to whoever recommended I check out Digital Juice. I used their Wedding Ring Themekit in the video.
The video is about five minutes: http://vimeo.com/5088387 - you may have to let it buffer a little (hit play, then pause a few seconds).
Unfortunately, I found out this morning that vimeo HD lags on some computers (e.g. my wife's old Duron with only 512MB), so I'm going to render a standard definition version very soon.
I've already thought of things I want to do in version 2 - I could have more clips of the singers, for instance, simply by using a split screen to have two events playing at the same time.
Anywho, considering the source material is twenty-four year old VHS tape - and it's my first attempt at this - I'm pretty happy with it!
I have lots of old home movies I want to edit, and any advice will be more than welcome. I'm enjoying doing this, and learning a lot as I go along.
I wound up capturing the video (OLD VHS tape) to my hard drive multiple times. It just wasn't looking that good, and someone here recommended using my HV30 pass-through rather than the Canopus device I was using - the HV30 was much better. The Canopus would probably be great if I had S-Video out, but I don't.
Also, thanks to whoever recommended I check out Digital Juice. I used their Wedding Ring Themekit in the video.
The video is about five minutes: http://vimeo.com/5088387 - you may have to let it buffer a little (hit play, then pause a few seconds).
Unfortunately, I found out this morning that vimeo HD lags on some computers (e.g. my wife's old Duron with only 512MB), so I'm going to render a standard definition version very soon.
I've already thought of things I want to do in version 2 - I could have more clips of the singers, for instance, simply by using a split screen to have two events playing at the same time.
Anywho, considering the source material is twenty-four year old VHS tape - and it's my first attempt at this - I'm pretty happy with it!
I have lots of old home movies I want to edit, and any advice will be more than welcome. I'm enjoying doing this, and learning a lot as I go along.