Video guru's: Please help, there has to be a better way

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So I'm putting together an end-of-the-year DVD for my family as a holiday gift. I have 5 mini DVs full of video.

I have had no problem using Windows Movie Maker to make short films (less than 5 min.) previously and it was fun.

But now I'm having to capture ALL the film onto my hard drive prior to even getting to the editing phase - this will take 20 hours

There has to be a better way... help!


Jen

Arianna Frances

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>But now I'm having to capture ALL the film onto my hard drive prior
>to even getting to the editing phase - this will take 20 hours

a) do it while you sleep
b) only capture the stuff you want

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where did you get 4h mini DV tapes ?

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Ugh... thats what I was afraid of So much for having this all done for Christmas!

WMM has alot of limitations on editing, which other programs are available (hopefully freeware as I'm broke).

Thanks all,


Jen

Arianna Frances

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Sorry, typo above, I have 15 mini DV tapes some are SP some are LP, I'm estimating the 20 hours... it'll probably be more

Arianna Frances

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If you have 15 tapes, you have 15 hours of capptuing. No way around that. Good news is that its a click and walk away type operation.

As a hint, I capture every time I get more then a few tapes shot so I con't have to rush it and can chop out all the junk off the start.

At 15 tapes you are probally looking at a 80 hour project if you want to get it to a single DVD with anything fancy in at at all. If its hour long shots of baseball games it might be faster, but if its tons of shorter clips its a long process to edit that many tapes.

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