Peter's Blog

I spent more time with Pinnacle studio: I went through the tour which in a few minutes told me about all I needed to know:

• how to edit a video
• how to add transitions (very easy)
• how to add titles (! didn't realise it could do that)
• how to put in sound effects.

I went through my video, cutting out the lens caps and putting in fading transitions between cuts which looks much better than a sudden stop and start. I added some titles and put 'Fin' at the end. There was no need for backing music as most of the video has music in the background. The transitions handle audio as well as video and this worked nicely. I didn't have time to watch it before I blew it and there is too much footage of the floor, walls, windows etc for my liking.

I edited it on the d410 laptop with external hard drive and rendered and blew it on my desktop pc. Rendering started about 12pm and was nearly finished when I went to bed at 11pm. By morning the CD had been ejected and it worked fine in the DVD player in the lounge. The video was about an hour long, 7 minutes short of filling the Video CD.

I downloaded a trial version of Nero 7 Premium and used it to record a snapshot of the video CD for duplication (don't want to wait 12 hours every time) and created a copy from the snapshot which works nicely. Nero 7 Premium has an awful lot of features, you can even edit videos with that. Maybe it would render them a bit faster? Maybe I can do a directors cut that leaves the floor on the cutting room floor.?