When your tapes have lots of bad shots, 5mins long home movies of the back garden ,10 different projects and maybe only 50mins used, as you have put another tape in to capture the whole thing on one tape ,yeah LOL. Hope this helps.
Reference For Editing
DV Camcorder
The DV Tape for the camcorder contains 1hr of footage, but when we decide what to use and delete all the crap, the tape may only beholding 35mins worth of good footage¡K
Connect Video cam to the PC, Videostudio will automatically start up. Capture the whole tape, split by scene, footage will be saved in E:\Ulead Studio 10\Raw Video
Sort out all the captured AVI file thumbnails by opening up the library manager and creating folders ie, Video Ziggy, Video Wedding etc. Put the thumbnails of the projects in their designated folders by copying them from the Main Video folder & paste them in their folders. Once this is done DELETE the thumbnails in the Main Video folder.
Now its time to Delete and get rid off all the useless footage that you know you would never watch again, (this is a painful job as you are away to TOTALLY DELETE footage that cannot be replaced) SO BESURE take your time.
Next, shorten and edit the clips,
Add Transitions,
Add the color black as the first & last clip in the Timeline view and use Crossfade to blend in. Open title step and type in the date of the shot footage and insert at the bottom right-hand side of screen using Book Antique 39 font. 3 secs for black, and 2 secs for time.
Sound can be added if the soundtracks of the clips are windblown in such away that you would mute it anyway.
If happy with what you have achieved, save work & create a video file (same as first video clip) AVI.
You have now created a Pre Edited AVI file.
The thumbnail PEAVI file will automatically appear in the Main Video folder, which should have NO thumbnails in it.
The PEAVI file resides at E:\Ulead Studio 10\Saved Working On
Do this to all Video folders that you have previously created.
Now that all the footage on the original tapes have been tidied up and arranged in a more presentable way, you can now record them back to the DV Camcorder, now we can use a tape to its maximum storage capacity of 1 hr.
The PEAVI files that we have recorded back to the camcorder can be used to make MOVIES like any AVI file would, the only difference is the editing and transitions have already been done for us.
Keep the PEAVI files stored on the Hard Drive so you can make Movies at your leisure. All other AVI files stored in at E:\Ulead Studio 10\Raw Video can now be DELETED¡K
STORE THE DV TAPES IN A SAFE PLACE, THEY ARE THE ORIGINALS
Our Home Movie Memories are made from these.
E:\Ulead Studio is my 2nd hard drive where i keep all my video work.
PEAVI is a term i invented which made it easier for me to work with.
Ulead Videostudio 10
Hope this helps new members with DV Camcorders
Moderator: Ken Berry
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BrianCee
While I can see that the above is a very useful reference for you Derek I do not think it is quite of the use you suggest to all new users.
Not everyone has an 'E' drive - what do they do, Why did you use Ulead Studio as a folder - the programme is called VideoStudio - could be confused with another programme called 'Studio'
I don't really think 'Raw Video' is a good name for a folder - RAW is a very particular kind of video and it is not what you are capturing via firewire ??? or USB ??? - you don't say.
When you connect your camcorder to your PC VideoStudio will only start automatically if you have configured your PC to do so - you don't tell new users how to do that - similarly the capture will only be to the folder you have mentioned if you have set that as your default capture folder - you don't tell new users how to do that. My personal preference is to NOT 'split by scene' - I much prefer to work with one large file - but that is my preference , I don't think you should imply that 'split by scene' is what you must do. And what about the ever growing number of camcorder users who do not have tape - DVDs for instance - what do they do ??
You say you are about to "TOTALLY DELETE" footage - I can't see where your doing that - editing does not delete footage - the captured video file is retained on your computer untouched in any way - you can always go back to the captured file - or indeed capture the footage again - because a sensible editor keeps all his original tapes safe and sound - if not forever then for a very very long time especially if it is something like a wedding or a christening.
I am really sorry to pull your work to pieces - as I say I can see it will help you - there are several other things I'm not to happy about - why should we use 'Book Antique' for subtitles - what if they want a full title at the beginning etc. etc. - but I think the above is enough for starters. - I just feel that if you sre posting guides to newcomers it is very important to include all the detail.
Not everyone has an 'E' drive - what do they do, Why did you use Ulead Studio as a folder - the programme is called VideoStudio - could be confused with another programme called 'Studio'
I don't really think 'Raw Video' is a good name for a folder - RAW is a very particular kind of video and it is not what you are capturing via firewire ??? or USB ??? - you don't say.
When you connect your camcorder to your PC VideoStudio will only start automatically if you have configured your PC to do so - you don't tell new users how to do that - similarly the capture will only be to the folder you have mentioned if you have set that as your default capture folder - you don't tell new users how to do that. My personal preference is to NOT 'split by scene' - I much prefer to work with one large file - but that is my preference , I don't think you should imply that 'split by scene' is what you must do. And what about the ever growing number of camcorder users who do not have tape - DVDs for instance - what do they do ??
You say you are about to "TOTALLY DELETE" footage - I can't see where your doing that - editing does not delete footage - the captured video file is retained on your computer untouched in any way - you can always go back to the captured file - or indeed capture the footage again - because a sensible editor keeps all his original tapes safe and sound - if not forever then for a very very long time especially if it is something like a wedding or a christening.
I am really sorry to pull your work to pieces - as I say I can see it will help you - there are several other things I'm not to happy about - why should we use 'Book Antique' for subtitles - what if they want a full title at the beginning etc. etc. - but I think the above is enough for starters. - I just feel that if you sre posting guides to newcomers it is very important to include all the detail.