OK, I will be the first to admit, I am a video editing novice. My first experience was this past week
when I captured some video from my camcorder and managed to use Windows Movie Maker to edit a
skit my daughter and her friends had made (along with lots of outtakes) into a presentable form.
Unfortunately, once it's in WMM, the only thing you can get out is WMV (does someone have a
conversion program to AVI?) and it doesn't appear that I can get the resulting WMV file back onto
videotape, and WMV is not the best format to send a CD to school to be played (I am a novice about
this as well), so I decided to try VideoFactory, which I was able to get for free at CompUSA this week.
To start, when I imported an AVI file (which I had captured using the ATI TV program that came with
my AIW 128 card), Movie Maker actually broke it into scenes for me (not perfect, but it was a start). I
was able to easily break the rest of the scenes apart, and delete the ones I wanted. Trying to do the
same with VideoFactory, but first it did not do the automatic break of scenes to begin with, and then
after reading through the manual a few times (not thoroughly, of course) I have yet to see how to do
this in VF. I managed to set markers, and even set a loop at some point, but when I tried to lift it out of
the rest of the video, no luck. I tried to delete everything before the first useful scene, and it took the
video but left the audio (or was it vice versa). This can't be as hard as it appears, especially
considering how simple Windows Movie Maker seemed to be, can it?
Can someone give me some simple tips for editing a 600mb AVI file and using just the clips I want in
VideoFactory? It seems to have all these nice features but I've yet to figure out how to get it to do the
really simple stuff I want.
BTW I did not do the capture from within VF because it wants me to tell it what program to use and I'll
be darned if I can figure out what the ATI program to point it at is called.
Bill
when I captured some video from my camcorder and managed to use Windows Movie Maker to edit a
skit my daughter and her friends had made (along with lots of outtakes) into a presentable form.
Unfortunately, once it's in WMM, the only thing you can get out is WMV (does someone have a
conversion program to AVI?) and it doesn't appear that I can get the resulting WMV file back onto
videotape, and WMV is not the best format to send a CD to school to be played (I am a novice about
this as well), so I decided to try VideoFactory, which I was able to get for free at CompUSA this week.
To start, when I imported an AVI file (which I had captured using the ATI TV program that came with
my AIW 128 card), Movie Maker actually broke it into scenes for me (not perfect, but it was a start). I
was able to easily break the rest of the scenes apart, and delete the ones I wanted. Trying to do the
same with VideoFactory, but first it did not do the automatic break of scenes to begin with, and then
after reading through the manual a few times (not thoroughly, of course) I have yet to see how to do
this in VF. I managed to set markers, and even set a loop at some point, but when I tried to lift it out of
the rest of the video, no luck. I tried to delete everything before the first useful scene, and it took the
video but left the audio (or was it vice versa). This can't be as hard as it appears, especially
considering how simple Windows Movie Maker seemed to be, can it?
Can someone give me some simple tips for editing a 600mb AVI file and using just the clips I want in
VideoFactory? It seems to have all these nice features but I've yet to figure out how to get it to do the
really simple stuff I want.
BTW I did not do the capture from within VF because it wants me to tell it what program to use and I'll
be darned if I can figure out what the ATI program to point it at is called.
Bill