Highlight Video Editing

[godesdevine]

I am looking to make several sports highlight video's for my daughter and her teammates. I am looking for a way to do this with the roxio suite of products if its possible. I also have adobe premier elements but have never used it and sony vegas studio (if i can find the software again) My last cp was struck by lightening and all the software was on there. Any help you can offer will be apprecited..

Thnx

[guns1inger]

Personally, I have yet to find a reason to do anything with Roxio other than use the disc as a coaster.

What is the source footage ? Mini-DV, Mpeg-2 (DVD), HD ?
What are you going to output to ? DVD, Bluray/AVC HD ?
Do you want to do overlays (text etc for scores/dates) ?

[godesdevine]

The source is my sony hdrsr1 i converted the video to mpg2 and now would like to make the highlight tape... not sure how to use it in the high def format... i am using a sony vaio ar600 computer....

thnx

[guns1inger]

Womble Mpeg Video Wizard is a dedicated, smart rendering mpeg-2 editor. Easy to use, does basic titles and transitions, and only re-encodes the bits you alter.

[godesdevine]

i am looking for a software that i can make highlight tape with... my sony vegas is not a pro edittion so i cannot mark i need help... thnx

[lordsmurf]

I use Adobe Premiere for this. The output is always quite nice.

While I use the full professional CS3 version, you can get away with Elements for under $100.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002IJA1DM?ie=UTF8&tag=thdifa-20&linkCode=as2&camp=17...SIN=B002IJA1DM

Or save a few bucks (half price?) and get the so-called "old version" which is not inferior in any way:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F...reative=390957

I prefer to buy boxed versions, because downloads have a way of disappearing sometimes. Like hard drive crashes, caused by lightning strikes! Discs don't disappear as easily.

You can get a free trial from the Adobe site: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=premiere_elements&loc=en_us

While I really do like Womble software, and use it daily, I would suggest it's not the proper tool for advanced editing needed for a highlight reels. Womble software is for basic cutting/re-arranging, not adding any kinds of titles and non-cheesy transition effects, mixing in photos, etc. (With all due respect to guns1inger, whose advice I often find to be spot-on.)

Good luck!

[godesdevine]

what about the elements version would it work and still allow me to point out the highlighted player

thnx in advance

[lordsmurf]

Point him out how? Give an example.

[TreeTops]

I think he means to spotlight a person in the video. That can be done in Premiere Elements.

[tin2tin]

Longomatch is what you're after. It's dedicated to that specific purpose and it's freeware.

LongoMatch:The Digital Coach

LongoMatch is a sports video analysis tool for coaches and sports scientists, to assist them on making games video analysis. It simplifies video analysis by providing a set of intuitive tools to tag, review and edit the most important plays of the game. It allows to group plays by categories and adjust their the boundaries (lead and lag time) through a timeline. It also has support for playlists, an easy way to create presentations with plays from different games and provides a video editor to render new videos with your favourite ones. Even if it is primary focused to sports, LongoMatch can be used for any task that requires tagging and reviewing segments of a video file, and can be applied to fields like cinema, medics or conferences.



LongoMatch is free software. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. This means you are free to use it.