video editing -- what do you use

[Apoc]

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Looks like the Platinum will do 4 audio and 4 video. I use multiple video clips strung together but I can't really see myself using more than 4 tracks, considering what I'm doing to pay for it.

(To be clear, video tracks is simultanious videos running parellel. I can string infinite via serial methods, right?)

[Evan]

Home made midget porn?

chris' wife isnt that short

[ScottyB]

ooooo Vegas sounds cool. i still haven't bought a program yet but i probably will by the end of this year.

[Jake]

I've heard good things about Vegas. Also, check out Avid's FreeDV - dunno how much it can handle what you want to do, but it's worth a shot.

On the Mac, I use iMovie HD and Final Cut Express.

For compressing for the web... try 320x240 pixels at 20ish fps. If you can use the H.264 codec, use it - it's good at small size vs. high quality.

[white_2kgt]

(To be clear, video tracks is simultanious videos running parellel. I can string infinite via serial methods, right?)

Correct. Not sure about 'infinite' I'm sure there's a limit but there's no hard coded limit.

[Apoc]

Just spent 20 minutes messing with Vegas 7.0d and it gets a :thumbup: from me.

More options means I now have to learn how to use them. :?

[Apoc]

So it looks like Vegas won't recognize the video portion of AVIs caputred from the wife's Canon digicam. I get the audio but I don't the video portion of it. If I load the same video that's been compressed in WMM then it works fine.

I read online about this program called AVI FourCC Code Changer and using it to change the code to DIVX. After that Vegas will at least detect there is a video track on the AVI but it's just blacked out.

Can anyone help? I don't want to have to run her clips through WMM first to use them.

[Apoc]

Found MPEG Streamclip, which works.