newbie Editing and VCD theory questions

[WarDaddy]

I am very new to this. So far I have captured 7 30 minute vhs-c home videos with VitrualDub and converted them to MPEG, for VCDs, with TMPGEnc, using huffy codec. Everything so far is working ok.

I am going to want to edit these videos down, add music and then blend all the cuttings togeather with trasitions. You know, make my crap home videos into something worth watching

I have the M$ movie editor that came with XP and I have Premiere 6.

Can I do what I want with the MPEGs and not AVIs? I would like to capture all my videos, burn them to VCD unaltered and them when editing time comes, open the MPEG I want, cut out the pieces as I need them and create the new video. Will that work?

What I would like to end up with is a VCD that will play all the way through from start to finnish, and have chapters that I could create. Is this also possiable?

Thanks for helping the newbie!
Bryan

[Tommyknocker]

Premiere 6 will be what you should be working with, the MS Editor was only to whet your appetite for video production, in my opinion. All you want to do is very possible, just with the software you own now. If you want a free VCD burner, think VCDEasy (see the Tools section at left).

Read the Newbie Guides, and for what I have researched about Premiere, you have some great tutorials available on the Adobe web site, because even the high-end experts have all agreed, that Premiere is a monster!