Starting out

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

So, I've got the songs picked out, the source vids acquired and the storyboarding done.

Now I need software that handles captures and video editing. I use a PC, and Matrox Rainbow Runner was insanely clunky and gave me an 800 M monstrosity of a vid. Could someone rec me a better piece of software? Esp one that exports to VCR as Matrox did not.

Or is using an editing VCR easier?

Comments

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

What she said. It sounds like what you need is a converter program, to take your uncompressed file and compress it (for web?). Alas, I know nothing of PCs so I cannot advise.

As someone who's done both VCR and digital editing--I find digital editing vastly easier; it's more precise and (the programs I use) allow non-linear editing. But VCR editing was faster--I didn't have to capture my source, which is probably the single most time-consuming thing I do with any vid (although of course, compressing the vid at the end *feels* longer because I want to get it done already, damn it).