:{THC}:YosamiteSam
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 posted on 1/3/09 at 04:17 PM |
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video - idiots guide
started using my dog cam and wanting to learn how to edit the files - basic stuff - chop some borin bits out - add titles - music overlay.. maybe
what software is best for this? is there a free one thats good? tried windows movie maker - takes for ever! - using pc not mac
hows it done guys.. cant be that hard can it?
pc is a
2.6 athlon with 1GB of memory
should be quick enuff??
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BenB
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| posted on 1/3/09 at 05:58 PM |
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Whatever you use the actual encoding will take time. Adobe Premier is even slower!! It usually takes my box 8-10 hours to encode a 2 hour home movie.
(3Ghz P4 with 2Gb memory).
The main movie editing softwares are
Sony Vegas
Adobe Premier
Ulead Video Studio
I personally like Premier, Vegas and Video Studio about an equal second.
Whatever you use prepair for your computer to be "in use" for some time....
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:{THC}:YosamiteSam
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| posted on 1/3/09 at 08:21 PM |
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ok so its not my pc then - was wondering if it wasnt upto it.
my cousin has a laptop (mac) he just drag n drops the files - done - must be a better system by far
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 1/3/09 at 08:33 PM |
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It's the transcoding (i.e. decoding and re-encoding with a different codec) that takes a lot of time, having a Mac doesn't help this.
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BenB
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| posted on 1/3/09 at 09:48 PM |
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Yup. Doesn't matter what OS you're running, transcoding is a processor hungry process!
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:{THC}:YosamiteSam
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| posted on 1/3/09 at 10:13 PM |
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it seems to take for ever tho - i posted this at about 5pm - when i set the import of the video file to windows movie maker - 2gb sd card full - its
now 10pm and in the collection pane it has split the file into lots of smaller clips (around 300) and its only upto 65! and it just importing! ffs..
gotta be a quicker way.. smaller source file of course.. but you canna keep stopping the recording surely? confused..
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 2/3/09 at 09:53 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by gotta be a quicker way.. [i/]
A fast quad core CPU will help greatly, but the fastest transcoding will use one of the top end graphics cards such as the GTX280. The massively
parallel GPU architecture in these cards hugely speeds up transcoding, if you are using software that supports it.
The bottom line is that video transcoding needs a very high spec PC to run at a sensible speed.
[Edited on 2/3/09 by MikeRJ]
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