Newbie Qu's: Basic Editing and Timecodes

[michaeld121]

I¡¦m new to eding in VideoStudio X2 & stuggling slightly. A couple of questions:

i) Can anyone recommend a good tutorial (rather than a preview) covering basic editing, ie using the timeline, cutting, inserting clips, moving clips around etc etc. I¡¦ve had a good look round & watched a few on YouTube, but haven¡¦t yet found anything covering this. Don¡¦t mind if it¡¦s a video or more text based.

ii) Timecodes: I¡¦m editing a year¡¦s worth of family video. I don¡¦t want timecodes on the finished version, but want to know the date a clip was filmed when I'm editing (so I can put titles in). In the past I¡¦ve used WMM which had the timecodes when editing but somehow dropped them in the finished DVD. I¡¦ve had a look at the manual and a few previous posts, but I¡¦m not sure what my best strategy is here.

Many thanks,

Michael

[Black Lab]

I¡¦m new to eding in VideoStudio X2 & stuggling slightly. A couple of questions:

i) Can anyone recommend a good tutorial (rather than a preview) covering basic editing, ie using the timeline, cutting, inserting clips, moving clips around etc etc. I¡¦ve had a good look round & watched a few on YouTube, but haven¡¦t yet found anything covering this. Don¡¦t mind if it¡¦s a video or more text based.
Please see the following tutorial: http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?t=13421

ii) Timecodes: I¡¦m editing a year¡¦s worth of family video. I don¡¦t want timecodes on the finished version, but want to know the date a clip was filmed when I'm editing (so I can put titles in). In the past I¡¦ve used WMM which had the timecodes when editing but somehow dropped them in the finished DVD. I¡¦ve had a look at the manual and a few previous posts, but I¡¦m not sure what my best strategy is here.
File>Preferences>General Tab>Display DV Timecode on Preview Window

Many thanks,

Michael

[michaeld121]

Many thanks.

On the timecodes: I'd found previous posts about that parameter, but wasn't clear whether it would show up on the final version. Obviously I wanted to avoid going through all of the capture & editing just to find I'd got something wrong right at the start.

I hadn't found that tutorial about editing. I'll have a good look through it. I've been getting stuck on the way that the overlay tracks work with the video track, hopefully this will clarify it.

Thanks,

Michael

[skier-hughes]

With dv the timecode is written to another part of the tape than the video, so it won't show up on the finished video.