[Cialug] Video editing/DVD Authoring

[Alan Maupin]

More info on hardware software recommendations for video editing on the
windows platform.

-- Windows XP with NTFS file system (NTFS prevents the FAT32 4Gb file size
limitation)

-- P2400 CPU or equal with 1gb RAM -- the faster the better ... (no less
than PIII-1000 with 512mb ram)

-- Adobe Premiere (provides all of the major codec's for encoding your
projects, i.e, MPEG 1 & 2, MOV, WMV, AVI and more)

-- Firewire for downloading DV and Camera control from the PREMIERE
timeline.

-- Sonic DVDit5 for authoring, simple easy to use program. 

-- USB 2.0 or Firewire external 200Gb or larger harddrive for downloading
upto 8 hours of DV for editing (8hr will occupy about 120Gb of harddrive
space on the external drive.  The remaining 80 plus gigs are for temp files
created by Premiere as a part of the editing process.

-- Other programs that compliment Premiere as part of the editing process
are Adobe Photoshop and Sony Sound Forge; for preparing still images and
audio files to import to the Premiere timeline.

-- And of course a good DVD+RW drive, other formats to consider (-R, -RW,
+R) I prefer +RW.

Throw in a nice Sony, Canon, or Panasonic 3CCD Camera.





-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org] On Behalf Of
Dave Weis
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 4:31 PM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Video editing/DVD Authoring


On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, James Shoemaker wrote:
> Dave Weis wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, James Shoemaker wrote:
>>>     Does anyone else dabble in video?  If so, what tools do you use?
>> An iMac :-)
> 	I have heard they are pretty good for Video work.  What sort of
speed 
> do you get on DV->muxed MPEG2 do you get?  Just curious.

Not sure about raw speed, it took about an hour to burn 1/2 hour of video 
the first time, but the next disc took about 10 minutes. The speed that I 
can grab everythign off a tape and arrange it makes up for any speed loss 
due to hardware.

dave

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