Ian Mastenbrook
I use an awesome software called Cyberlink Powerdirector-
http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/overview_en_US.html. I
believe it's $70 but well worth it! It has TONS of transitions, titles,
fonts, and can do all sort of cool stuff like straight upload to Youtube or
Facebook. I used to use Windows Movie Maker but it won't accept .mov files
that Gopro uses. I'm not any type of salesman, but Cyberlink is pretty
sweet.
Here is a review of it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycr6XLfAe_o
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:36 PM, David Rosen wrote:
> Thank you for everyone who responded. The suggestions that were made
> (from a PC perspective) were:
>
> Windows Movie Maker
>
> Adobe Premiere
>
> A Sony product: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/moviestudiope
>
>
>
> On the Mac side, their bundled software will do the job nicely (Final Cut
> or iMovie).
>
>
>
> One other option that I remember I used to use a few years ago when I toyed
> around with the idea of video editing was called Virtual Dub.
> http://www.virtualdub.org/. It is freeware and has been around for many
> years. It can do batch processing and handle multiple files. It is a very
> streamlined utility and although the instructions were not great a few years
> ago, it looks like the website has been stepped up a bit. It was written by
> a college student and he has kept it alive over the years. (Mike- this might
> be something worth looking into for OBRA.)
>
>
>
> Lastly, I did stop in Best Buy (but I would recommend going to Fry’s for a
> better selection) and they had a few titles for under $100. My point is,
> that you don’t have to break the bank for some software if you don’t want
> to.
>
>
>
> Thank you to everyone who replied. I think for now I will try Movie Maker
> and see how that works. If I need something more robust, I will look at
> these options.
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> *From:* obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Mike Murray
> *Sent:* Monday, October 18, 2010 12:33 PM
> *To:* 'Stephen Fitzgerald'
>
> *Cc:* 'OBRA remailer'
> *Subject:* Re: [OBRA Chat] Video editing
>
>
>
> I tried Quicktime. It doesn’t recognize the format that the camera stores
> the file in. It uses a .mts format. I tried a file converter to put them
> in a different format but not only did that take too long it did not work.
>
>
>
> Mike Murray
>
>
>
> *From:* Stephen Fitzgerald [mailto:list@monovich.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, October 18, 2010 12:06 PM
> *To:* mike.murray@obra.org
> *Cc:* OBRA remailer
> *Subject:* Re: [OBRA Chat] Video editing
>
>
>
> just download the clips to your hard drive and open them in Quicktime
>
> Player.
> Quicktime allows for normal forward and reverse playback and frame by
> frame scurbbing (via the arrow keys on your keyboard). Its free.
>
> If you want to edit, on the mac side just use iMovie. It is shockingly
> easy to get going on. On the PC side I'm not sure which software is the
> most elegant. The problem on the PC side is that there are SO many
> options. Someone else could probably help suggesting one of the better
> ones.
>
> On 10/18/2010 9:05 AM, Mike Murray wrote:
> > I would also be interested in this. Kenji bought some new small HD video
> cameras to act as backup for the FinishLynx. So far the only way we have
> been able to use it is by running the video output to a TV/VCR and using
> that for review. This negates the benefit of HD and requires hauling around
> a TV. What we need is software that will allow us to review the recorded
> files frame-by-frame forward and backwards. Let me know if you have seen
> software to do this.
> > Mike Murray - Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "David Rosen"
> > Sender: obra-bounces@list.obra.org
> > Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:53:52
> > To:
> > Subject: [OBRA Chat] Video editing
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