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December 18, 2005
Video capture, part XXI
Mom finished the last of source cassette number 11 today. I'm now transferring the digital video to disk.
It seems Kino now has three point editing. Maybe it had it before. There won't be time to do more than process the raw content to MPEG and burn it onto SVCD for Mom. A few more years of progress in cheap storage and I'll be able to transfer the raw content onto something that's random access for video editing whenever I have time.
Trouble is, video editing, at least for me, is not something I can do while regularly interrupted. Not enough of a science. Instead it's like trying to imagine a sort of story based on the footage you have, then sculpting the story together, but without enough technique to do a part then set it aside. If set aside, it just gets forgotten. A shame that the first time in your life you have videos to edit -- when you have small children -- is the time of your life when you're almost constantly debilitated by interruptions.
Posted by Mark at December 18, 2005 03:12 PM
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Indeed, I'm discovering that is the truth. Heck, right now, I'm learning to type with one hand and wonder if I'll ever be able to work 8 hrs in a day again.
I did simplify my life by buying the DVD videocam and DVD-RW disks (of course, expensive DVD-RW disks cannot be played in standard DVD players, only the non-editable DVD-Rs work). It's easy to delete footage before saving it, and theoretically, I can download MPEGs to my computer (neither of us has had time to install the software or try it out yet :-)
Posted by: Andy at December 22, 2005 10:34 AM
It sounds like your solution is a lot easier than what I did, which was get a Digital 8 camera, and a fireware card and cable.
You ought to be able to edit the MPEGs. Not sure what software is best for that. With the GUI editing software I've used most, Kino on Linux, you edit the digital video and then transcode it into MPEG.
BTW, read Michael Rubin's Little Digital Video Book. Want me to send you a copy?
Posted by: Mark at December 22, 2005 08:49 PM
Yes, or just the link please.
Posted by: Andy at December 23, 2005 09:02 AM