Editing from DVD

bob333 · Junior Editor Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 1

I'm new to video editing so bear with me, please. I have hours of raw video that has already been transferred to DVD, but now I'd like to edit it and burn new DVDs. How much storage space would I need and what would be a good software package to use? Any other help or suggestions would be appreciated.

outnertia · Junior Editor Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 23

For the amount of storage needed, check out how much space has been used on the dvd for raw footage Razz

For editing software, I recommend sony vegas, however if you are on a buget, then i would say Nova Developments video explosion delux. Its basically vegas lite.

If you are looking to buy a seperate hdd for raw footage [recommended in my opinion] 40G is plenty. a rough estimation would be 2 hours of uncompressed raw footage for 40 gigs. but thats really a guess, i could be way off xD

Umm a Gig of ram dont hurt either.

hip_man · Junior Editor Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 7

ImTOO Ripper Pack Platinum is a nice one to choose . It is a software package with DVD Ripper Platinum, DVD Creator, MPEG Encoder, Audio Encoder and CD Ripper included ,you may find more to clck here: http://www.imtoo.com/ripper-pack-platinum.html

happyhorse · Junior Editor Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 3

I have used some softwares of imtoo,I think they are powerful and sonvenient Very Happy

YONG_LIN · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:

You first need to rip your DVD to AVI or MPEG files in your computer, than edit them in a video editing application like Adobe Premiere Pro and burn your video directly to DVD disk from Adobe Premiere Pro. of course there are many other video editing applications that you can use.

Storage for your video files can vari from one format to another format and the codec, compression you set on it. As a guide here, one hour of DV AVI file has about 12GB of storage.

(Sorry, I have never rip a DVD, I can't tell you how, but I believe that is very easy, you can just search on the forum here.)

Good luck~!

serena · Junior Editor Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 6

Let me introduce some good free software here:
AVIedit: It is a great tool to work with .AVI files. It allows you to join and split avi files, extract frames. You can change frame rate, duration, frame size, color depth of your videos and other properties, even without recompression, and convert avi clips to bmp and bmp to avi, animated GIFs etc. and there are some shortcoming, the running speed is too slow even a short video unless you have much free time to wait. The supported format is only .AVI, it does not support MPEG-4 video and others such as virtual dub neither Sonic Foundry Vegas, etc. But it is free anymore.

Virtual Edit:It is a semi-professional software video editing package aimed at ambitious content creators to video novices, who want to produce material with a slick and professional look, on a limited budget.
There is a special video capture utility for users with DV and Digital-8 cameras. If you have a different camera, (for example an analogue Hi8), you must use a third party application or the software provided with your equipment to capture data on to your PC. Then use the 'import' utility in Virtual Edit to add data to your project. Sound good, but also with the free tools the speed is slow and the edit steps are complicated in a way before you read the long help documents and it will not be able to render advanced transitions unless you purchase the full version.

If you are Mac user: http://www.apple.com
You can choose iMovie. It comes with every new Mac (OS X), now called iMoveHD and it's a part of iLife package. Apple iMovie '05 is an excellent (and free) video editor for the Mac platform, with advanced video editing features and a lot of addon and plug-in support. You can find more information about iMovie at Apple's iLife '05 site. Note that this software is free only if you buy a new Mac. You can purchase it, however, if you just want the software.

AVS Video Editor: http://www.videoconverterdownload.com/software/avs-video-editor.html
AVS Video Editor is a full-featured editor for turning your home videos in Hollywood-like masterpieces. You can capture video from video cams and TV tuners, master videos and slideshows with exciting effects and transitions, author and burn DVD, export movies to almost any video format, edit any video and transfer it then directly to iPod, PSP, mobiles and other portable players. The new interface makes advanced video editing a fan and easy task.So it aims at users who intend high speed and excellent quality with some budget.