A great product

gordonwd · Post by **gordonwd** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:57 pm

Notwithstanding that I sometimes post complaints and minor bugs here (as do many), I've been working with VS10+ the last few days (also have used VS7-9) and started thinking about what a powerful yet easy-to-use program this is.

What brought it home was that I've been using it to make DVD compilations of old 8mm movies that I made many years ago. These movies were themselves highly edited, and you guys who have only lived in the digital age have no idea what it took to edit real movie film.

For one thing, the "scissors icon" was a real pair of scissors that you used to cut the film into scenes or sections, and the "timeline" or "storyboard" was a real board on the wall where you'd tape and label the pieces of film and move them around. After shooting another roll of film consisting of hand-made titles of some sort and cutting those into pieces, you had the task of splicing the film back together with a special fixture and film glue.

Now, in VS, I was able to re-edit some of the films in minutes instead of hours. Cut and trim at will, use some effects and a few transitions, replace the crude titles with digitized fonts, and even add some background music. It's been a lot more fun than chore this time around!

As I said above, a very powerful program when you think about what it is doing underneath that user interface!

Terry Stetler · Post by **Terry Stetler** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:10 pm

Those were the days

Kiddies; just think what it was like going straight from film to the Newtek Video Toaster for Amiga & tape. Talk about a shock

The Amiga Toaster, cam & associated h/w was a multi-kilobuck investment. Now you can drop $300 on a camera, pick up a copy of VS10 and get better results.

Amazing.

MrA · Post by **MrA** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:56 am

Awe man, thanks, for being old school and digital. I wanna hear more old school stories. Whats cool here, is, I have no complaints about the software, it works as advertised, unlike many others, in the price range. I do have the best of the best software and hardware wise, but, I have more fun with this software.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:32 am

You may be interested in how I presented my Super 8 films on DVD using a 'film within a film' technique.
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8849

middlebury madness · Post by **middlebury madness** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:12 am

I know we have it easy now.... I guess I should be thankful! But I started my film career with an 8mmmovies and didn't edit!