How ? to edit dvd-r

[bobinga]

Ok
I have finalized my video on -R on my e50.
I place it in my dvdrom on computer.

How can I edit this? Inexpensively.
On my computer I have studio 7, Edit studio, DVD lab ( none will allow me to import )

MovieFactory will allow me to import, but it strips the ac audio out.
What guides are going to be appropriate for me? Retaining sound would be nice, but another $100 software package and my wife will shoot me!

Thanks and God Bless

[thoots]

bob,

What do you mean, "edit?" What do you want to do? If you just want to get rid of commercials, you could just do that during your recording sessions, by hitting the "Pause" button, then fast-forwarding your tapes through the commercials, and taking it out of "pause" to start recording again. Then, you wouldn't need to mess around with the computer at all.

Unless, that is, you're trying to do something else. Let us know what you want to do, and I'm sure we can give you even more help with this. As for what programs will allow you to edit the DVD's you create, I'm sure there are dozens and dozens of messages right here in this forum that go through that in detail -- just do some digging, and I think you'll find quite a bit about it!

Good luck!

thoots

[bobinga]

OK!!
I'll try to be more clear.

I have several hundred hours of vhs and 8mm video to archive.
I'm doing that with the e-50.

What I would like to do is take that finalized disk, place it on my dvdrom on my computer, extract video, cut video , make menus, combine clips from fifferent dvd's onto a single dvd.

movie factory will do this but it extracts the video ( I believe it is ac3( ?) ).
I don't usually waste time with commercial television, so there are no commercials, just uninteresting periods of video to be removed.

I know how to use pinnacle Studio7 to edit, but the video produced on the finished DVD is not recognized by it.

Thanks in advance for any constructive help that can be offered.

God Bless
Bob

[bobinga]

sorry it extracts the audio not the video

[FOO]

Just pray a lot. Maybe it will just happen

[thoots]

I have several hundred hours of vhs and 8mm video to archive. I'm doing that with the e-50.

What I would like to do is take that finalized disk, place it on my dvdrom on my computer, extract video, cut video, make menus, combine clips from fifferent dvd's onto a single dvd.

Bob,

Hmmm....

Please bear in mind that your DMR-E50 has a "Pause" button.

It also has a "Stop" button.

When you get to a boring part of your video, hit the "Pause" button.

When you get to a portion you want to record, take it out of "pause" and start recording again.

If you need to switch tapes at some point, just switch tapes.

If you need to finish the recording up the next day, just hit the "Stop" button, turn the DMR-E50 off, and just come back to it the next day, and begin again.

In other words, you can absolutely "edit on the fly" as you record this stuff. Otherwise, it sounds like you'd be spending hours recording stuff you don't want, then hours and hours and hours and hours MORE doing all of this editing on the computer, and so on. How many hours of that stuff did you say you had?? And, how much free time do you have available to spend on this project??

Seriously, there's nothing you said there that would require you to use a computer, unless you want to create some kind of fancy "picture menus" to use instead of the ones the DMR-E50 will make for you. Just bear in mind that the hours it will take you to complete your project will probably expand exponentially -- and you might well wind up spending a whole bunch of money to find a program that'll get the job done the way you want it done.

In the end, you absolutely CAN edit your recordings as you capture them to DVD-R on your DMR-E50, without any additional expenditure of time or money. That would certainly describe what I'm doing with my recordings on my DMR-E50....

Good luck!

thoots

[CPimaging]

I'm trying to do the same thing bobinga. I'm in the middle of testing different methods right now so I can't give you a definitive answer. As a starting point I would check out the "Tools" link on the left. Also try some google searches. You'd be surprized at some of the tools/programs you can find for free. If I find a good combination maybe I'll do a write up, but now I'm still experimenting.

[Bob W]

The only way I have found to add fancy menus or do some cropping on my E50 is to record to DVD-RAM then I can copy those files onto my computer with the Toshiba DVD drive I have that also reads DVD-RAM discs. Then I have to change the VRO extension created on the DVD-RAM disc to mpg and I can then import the file into NeoDVD Plus to do any editing and menu work. I guess I could just record to a DVD-R disc then I would have DVD compliant mpeg files however then I would be wasting a discs.

[bobinga]

Well , some think I am foolish for wanting to edit a dvd.
why not just do it on the e-50 on-the fly?

Well for 1 , I want to preserve most of the raw footage in a format that has a longer life span than vhs ( theoretically ).

2nd, I would like to take a snippit from this and that etc. and make movies for different family members, cut sections and rearrange them, etc, etc...

BUT,

I like the fades and swipes, transitions and titles available in Pinnacle Studio products. Makes a nice finished movie for VHS. I have Ver.7, was unable to get ver.8 to perform properly on my computer.

I have spent so much money already ( it would be a pittance to some, but alot for me < new computer, advc100, media to experiment with ) I am determined to find a way of doing this without buying more software.

I have been unable to burn a DVD on my pc that is as high a quality that the e50 produces, but I can produce killer vhs tapes with Pinnacle Studio 7 and the DC10 analog card ( has input and output ).
I have been unsuccessfull getting the ADVC-100 to output a finished product via the analog out. It's supposed to do-able, but I already own the dc10 and it does a fine job.

So for now, I shall capture with the advc100 into S7 ( I could use the dc10 for this , but the capture is very nice ) either form vhs or dvd , edit and compile my special projects , export back to VHS thru the dc10, and then burn with the E30.

This will work.

[FOO]

I do not wish to be blessed, thank you.

[thoots]

I have Ver.7, was unable to get ver.8 to perform properly on my computer.

I have spent so much money already ( it would be a pittance to some, but alot for me < new computer, advc100, media to experiment with ) I am determined to find a way of doing this without buying more software.

I have been unable to burn a DVD on my pc that is as high a quality that the e50 produces.

I have been unsuccessfull getting the ADVC-100 to output a finished product via the analog out. It's supposed to do-able, but I already own the dc10 and it does a fine job.

bobinga,

This would be the kind of stuff we "skip the computer" advocates would be talking about. We've been there, we've spent countless hours with pitiful results, and the standalones like the DMR-E50 are absolute REVELATIONS. No way will I ever try to do this stuff on the computer again!!

thoots

[donpedro]

I am interesting in same think. Convert VHS Home Video tapes to DVD and then edit, cut, change scenes order, add transitions and so on on mpeg2 that I can get from DVD. Problem is AC3 sound that only expensive editing sofware can handle. What are you guys using for this ?

[ejai]

You can use Mpeg2vcr to cut and edit your video and maintain the ac3 audio standard. Also Ulead's DVD Workshop will author the dvd without converting the ac3 audio, the video and audio will stay intac as if you made the final product in the Panasonic recorder.

FYI Ulead's Movie Factory will not allow you to maintain the ac3 audio format, it will convert it to mpeg audio or Lpcm.