Need help video editing

Big Bri

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11 Feb 2012 - 11:54 AM

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A friend has asked me to do some minor editing on a video shot on a mini-dvd type video camera. (Just splicing a couple of sections out).

I have some cheap(ish) software (Pinnacle) that I use for creating slideshows of stills, and I have Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, which looks WAY too complicated to use...

Can anyone recommend the best way to start? When I load Premiere, the list of options is just bewildering

Big Bri

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11 Feb 2012 - 2:02 PM

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Cheers Chris. I can do it in Pinnacle, I just thought that Premiere might produce better quality output.

Chris_L

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11 Feb 2012 - 9:04 PM

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If you can't see any files when it's on the PC it may possibly need finalizing in camera. They actually do that so people can edit stuff on the camera's LCD before finalizing by marking the in and out points of parts they want to remove or keep.

With some systems the out-takes actually remain on the disc but don't show up in the table of contents so when you play them on a regular DVD player it can't play them.

macroman

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13 Feb 2012 - 9:20 PM

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Quote: Can anyone recommend the best way to start?

Try 'TrakAxPC' HERE:-


fully featured FREE software for AVs, Video editing, and Audio mixing.
You can have umpteen video slide & audio tracks all mixed together.
Tricky to get to grips with, but well worth it and it's FREE!!!
Paid up version has a few handy tweaks, but the standard version is excellent, and very good support too.

macroman

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13 Feb 2012 - 10:37 PM

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If I can use it anyone can.
Also it was the first such software I had tried, apart from Moviemaker.