Very Basic Capture and edit help

[kman22]

I am in the early stages of video management. Right now all I want to do it crop and split some videos that I have captured over the years. There are usually multiple videos on one DV tape so I capture the entire tape and go back and edit later. Now I'm getting to the editing part. I really just want to crop and split them at this time. They will be primarily viewed on the computer so right now I just leave them as raw DV because it is the best quality. I use WinDV to capture because it is the easiest. Is there a simple tool out there that I could easily and quickly crop movies with and still export it to DV?

[yoda313]

I imagine virtualdub will let you output to dv. It can cut and join. (freeware). Also I believe windows movie maker lets you output to dv (xp only).

[daamon]

Hi kman22,

VirtualDub is free and will do what you want it to. Open your AVI in VirtualDub to work with it.

Any "manipulation" is done by the use of filters: Click Video -> Filters... and choose the ones you need.

To output back to DV AVI, download and install the Panasonic DV Codec (if you haven't got it already) - it too is free and works well with VirtualDub. To use this when exporting, click Video -> Compression and choose it from the list of different codecs.

Good luck.