Premiere or Something else?

[Nozmo]

I am new to video editing and have been trying to get the best information regarding capturing, editing and writing my hone videos to DVD. I basically have two objectives:

1.) To capture new home movies from my Sony TRV 250, make very simple edits (basically cuts and maybe a few titles) then burn to DVD.
2.) To Capture older VHS tapes from our old camcorder and do the same basic editing and burning.

I have made a few posts requesting recommendations for capture hardware and software, and so far it looks like the ATI MMC8.? is the going recommendation with lordsmurf suggested tweaks. So now I’m on to the editing process and have all but given up on Pinnacle Studio as it crashes a lot and I am getting strange portions where the audio just blanks out randomly.

I have an opportunity to get Adobe Premiere 6.5 through work at a very discounted price. The question is, is Premiere the right tool to do the editing and writing to DVD I would like to do or is there something simpler that works with MPEG for edits that does a good job?

I intend to capture most video to MPEG2 because of the encoding on the fly (processing time savings?) and due to the fact I will be doing only basic cuts and would like to avoid using AVI then encoding to MPEG because of the amount of time it takes?

Suggestions?

[BJ_M]

premeire 6.5 doesnt edit mpeg2 (which is really not a editing format), you would be better to off to capture in a avi compressed format , edit, then encode to mpeg2 , author and burn to dvd ....

if all you want to do is mpeg2 cuts .. mpeg2vcr may be a better choice as it will edit without re-encoding your mpeg2 captures...

you would still have to author .... and such

with the price of home stand alone dvd recorders falling like nuts - and the fact that most of them can edit ... they may be a better choice ...

same price or cheaper than adobe ...

[Nozmo]

if all you want to do is mpeg2 cuts .. mpeg2vcr may be a better choice

What is mpeg2vcr and how do I get it?

Thank you,

[BJ_M]

http://www.womble.com/vcr-text.htm