VS9 Making sports high lite dvd using many small clips

jfg733 · Post by **jfg733** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:32 pm

Is there an easy way to cut and save numerous 10-20 second clips off several captured dv files so I can make a composite dvd containing team high-lites. Is it possible to save each small clip as its own mpeg file? This will be an on-going prcess over a two month period so all the dv files will not be available on the computer until the end so I'd like to work on it a little at a time throughout the season.

Thanks

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:01 pm

I actually do this for all my son's sports teams and I just finished a baseball tournament dvd that was paying job.

What I do is transfer the clips to my computer and edit them as time allows. I try to keep up with it as best I can so I can give it to the kids as soon as the season is over. (But as I say that I am already 2 games behind because of working on the tournament dvd. Thank goodness all I have left to do is actually burn and print the dvds and mail them out.)

I actually wait until all clips are edited before I render them to an mpeg file, mainly because when I am doing my son's teams I usually just render all the clips to 1 mpeg. For the baseball tournament I rendered each game to its own mpeg so that each game could be navigated to separately on the dvd.

Another thing that made it easy doing the tournament dvd is I created separate video library folders for each game. Made it much less cluttered and much easier to work with.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:29 pm

Is it possible to save each small clip as its own mpeg file?

The general procedure is to trim the video, and then got the the Share tab and save the new file. (This won't affect your original file, and you can delete the original file when you're done with it.

It would be safer to save the individual short clips in DV format. Do all of your editing in AVI/DV, and let Video Studio do the MPEG conversion as the last step before burning the DVD. There is some possibility of "lip-sync" problems (or worse) when you join a bunch of MPEGs together, and I have a feeling this is not the best time to experiment!

jfg733 · Post by **jfg733** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:55 pm

thanks for the tips. I'll give them a try