Bought camcorder - what software?!

I just bought a sony cancorder (mini DV). I got it setup for firewire transfer. What software should i use to rip the flick to the computer and then video edit it.

Adobe Premire Elements (or Pro if you can drop $700-$1000 on it)

price is no issue ;)

In that case, you should get a Mac and FinalCut Pro.

well price isn't an issue with software but i'm not gonna buy a new pc.

Well, if your only gonna edit videos, all you need is Adobe Premiere Pro. If you're gonna make DVDs, you're gonna need Adobe Encore. If you're gonna want to make custom graphics for your DVDs, you need Adobe Photoshop. If your gonna edit the audio, you need Adobe Audition. And if you want to add special FX, your gonna need Adobe After Effects.

So, get Permiere Pro and Encore if you only want to do basic stuff, otherwise Adobe has a bundle that includes everything for about $100-1500.

[quotea17ec275b1="compuguru"]Well, if your only gonna edit videos, all you need is Adobe Premiere Pro. If you're gonna make DVDs, you're gonna need Adobe Encore. If you're gonna want to make custom graphics for your DVDs, you need Adobe Photoshop. If your gonna edit the audio, you need Adobe Audition. And if you want to add special FX, your gonna need Adobe After Effects.

So, get Permiere Pro and Encore if you only want to do basic stuff, otherwise Adobe has a bundle that includes everything for about $100-1500.[/quotea17ec275b1]

That's actually awesome. Do they all integrate with each other?

stupid fucking shit. my computer doesn't support SSE2 instruction set. So i can't install elements 2.0 its a new cpu AMD...wtf

[quote0f5321b9d9="Nimh"]That's actually awesome. Do they all integrate with each other?[/quote0f5321b9d9]
I haven't had much expeience with them (can't afford $1000) but they do integreate extremely tightly.

[quotedf0b7ae0b3="compuguru"]Well, if your only gonna edit videos, all you need is Adobe Premiere Pro. If you're gonna make DVDs, you're gonna need Adobe Encore. If you're gonna want to make custom graphics for your DVDs, you need Adobe Photoshop. If your gonna edit the audio, you need Adobe Audition. And if you want to add special FX, your gonna need Adobe After Effects.

So, get Permiere Pro and Encore if you only want to do basic stuff, otherwise Adobe has a bundle that includes everything for about $100-1500.[/quotedf0b7ae0b3]

Tried install all those programs...my cpu won't support any of them. Any other suggestions for software?

[quotea0b567a2f6="manofice"]stupid fucking shit. my computer doesn't support SSE2 instruction set. So i can't install elements 2.0 its a new cpu AMD...wtf[/quotea0b567a2f6]
Ya, looks like it's only for Intel Chips...I use Pinnacle Studio (Like $100, http//www.pinnaclesys.com) and it works fine. They also have Pinnacle Liquid which is their Pro version. Lots of people have been complaining about stability, although I have had no issues myself.

will pinnacle stuido rip the movie and let me edit it?

It will let you import from your camera, edit it, and do some basic DVD menus, and burn the DVD. Save often however, as like I said, I've heard that it likes to crash. I'm still using version 9 and haven't had any issues though. shrug

thx alot

I've had access to and used many different DV capture/editing software. For the majority of my DV work I come back to Windows Movie Maker. Yes, that's right Windows Movie Maker. It's free, included with XP, and is extremely full-featured. I capture and edit with it, including titles and transitions, then transcode to DVD with NeroVision Express while adding chapters and menus.

Unless you're doing to some high-end pro-level editing, WMM does everything you'll need, trust me.

[quotea435acac92="dmorris68"]I've had access to and used many different DV capture/editing software. For the majority of my DV work I come back to Windows Movie Maker. Yes, that's right Windows Movie Maker. It's free, included with XP, and is extremely full-featured. I capture and edit with it, including titles and transitions, then transcode to DVD with NeroVision Express while adding chapters and menus.

Unless you're doing to some high-end pro-level editing, WMM does everything you'll need, trust me.[/quotea435acac92]
WMM is good but when u edit a clip, it'll lost some quality.

[quote7e668ba280="GCY"][quote7e668ba280="dmorris68"]I've had access to and used many different DV capture/editing software. For the majority of my DV work I come back to Windows Movie Maker. Yes, that's right Windows Movie Maker. It's free, included with XP, and is extremely full-featured. I capture and edit with it, including titles and transitions, then transcode to DVD with NeroVision Express while adding chapters and menus.

Unless you're doing to some high-end pro-level editing, WMM does everything you'll need, trust me.[/quote7e668ba280]
WMM is good but when u edit a clip, it'll lost some quality.[/quote7e668ba280]

No, I always capture and then re-save as raw DV-AVI and never lose quality -- it just writes the same lossless format that you captured, there's no transcoding going on. Now if you edit then save as WMV, [i7e668ba280]especially[/i7e668ba280] if your source clip was already in WMV or another lossy format, then yes you'll lose quality. But keep it in DV-AVI coming in and going out, and there is no quality loss.

OK...i got the latest version of pinnacle software. Whats this windows software...i know i have. What i want to do is take my video and hook up the camera to my firewire port and i guess transfer it to my computer and then edit the video and then make a dvd/vcd (doesn't really matter) . These are just home videos.

[quotebfe895e333="manofice"]OK...i got the latest version of pinnacle software. Whats this windows software...i know i have. What i want to do is take my video and hook up the camera to my firewire port and i guess transfer it to my computer and then edit the video and then make a dvd/vcd (doesn't really matter) . These are just home videos.[/quotebfe895e333]
It's Windows Movie Maker -- it comes with Windows XP.

It won't master to DVD. You capture with it, then edit the video with titles and transitionts, then save back out to DV-AVI format. You then import into something like NeroVision, TMPeg, WinAVI, or something similar to create chapters/menus and transcode to DVD format.

yeah...alls i really need is titles and transitions.

OK...so i'm tryin to use the pinnacle software to test it out...when i capture my video...i get audio but video is just black...i know its gotta be codec or something but what do i need?