Question on editing between several angles/sources

[MikeMcCoy]

Hi,

Just curious, what is the best program (is there one) for editing together a video that is on three different sources? In other words, I have three camera angles, and I want to edit it together and make a professional looking video.

What's the best program for this? I have been using Magix Video Deluxe 2.0, but it really doesn't like playing with a bunch of files..

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[video_guy]

I use Adobe Premiere Pro and will a little practice I've made a video with different camera angles. This program is a bit pricy though and maybe you won;t want to spend a lot of money. But I would suggest downloading the 30 day trial to see if you like the program or not. Hope this helps!

[MikeMcCoy]

Testing it out now, but when I preview the video in the "monitor", it's very jerky, and since I'm only using the audio from one of that angles but the video from all three (it was a filmed concert from three angles), that makes it impossible to line it up right.

Here's what I have:

512megs of DDR-memory
Pentium 4, 3.07Ghz processor
Audigy 2 Sound Card
ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro Video Card
980GB of hard drive space (that's not a typo, 980)

Thanks!

[video_guy]

Adobe Premiere is kinda picky when it comes to editing. It only likes certain video formats to edit with. These are Uncompressed AVI or dv AVI. It has trouble editing mpeg and other AVI compressions. It looks like your computer is smoking fast in todays standard so the jerkiness would not be caused by that. Please reply and tell me what format the videos are in. Also, Premiere has a thing called "Rendering". It is a little time consuming but what it does is render the video to the format that you can edit with. It can do this with many video formats. Try to do that (just press enter when you are using the Timeline). Wait until it is done and then see if the jerkiness stops; it probably will. Also, any time you add a transition or effect you will have to render it (it takes all the frames in that clip and adds the effect/transition to it). You may want to add a cross-dissolve fade when switching between different camera angles. Hope this helps and reply and tell me whats happening & also the format and codec of the raw video that you are trying to edit.

[MikeMcCoy]

Hi!

First, just want to say thanks for all the help!

Had a friend who has pro version 7, so that's the Premiere version I'm using. Also gave me Hollywood FX in case I'd need it.

I've been using TMPGEnc to rip from the DVDs of the angles in Mpeg-2 format, then used DVTool to split the files up into sections also in mpeg-2 (but encoded differently, it would seem) since I had been using Magix Video Deluxe 2.0. Magix is very easy to use when making stuff, but doesn't like big files at ALL, freezes the second you don't so slowly and give it time to load, and is so touchy with it's export - trying to export to MPEG-2 to make a good promotional DVD - that the only exports that are easy to do don't look very good.

Thanks for the AVI and rendering tips, I'll try those!

[MikeMcCoy]

I guess I have another question now... what's the best program for going from DVD-R to AVI?

Thanks!