#1 2008-03-23 19:47:31
I'm stuck, struggling to edit video and adobe premier is proving more trouble than its worth. Anyone suggest a quick and dirty n00b solution to extracting short clips?
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#2 2008-03-24 17:43:52
No.
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#3 2008-03-24 17:57:23
You are aware of the extent of my technical expertise.
But since no one else is being helpful, I shall pick Husband™'s brains when he gets home from work and see if he knows of any...however, video is not his area, so don't hold your breath.
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#4 2008-03-24 19:30:51
Hokay, Husband™ sez that if you don't want to spend many thousands of dollars on professional-level editing software, Adobe Premier is the way to go.
Other than that, iMovie and iDVD, available only on Macintosh, are the way to go.
Helpful, I know. I'm sorry.
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#5 2008-03-24 20:52:46
George Orr wrote:
Hokay, Husband™ sez that if you don't want to spend many thousands of dollars on professional-level editing software, Adobe Premier is the way to go.
Thank you. I've studiously ignored windows in favor of linux as much as possible and its instability has begun to show. Looks like I'll spend the rest of my evening reinstalling. Pthph, blah.
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#7 2008-03-24 23:22:15
Marvelous, thank you. That sounds like just what I need. Still going to reinstall this creaky beast, though. Operating systems and data files get separate disks anymore but there's enough residual trauma from yesteryear I've stocked a pint of Guinness' best just for the occasion.
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#8 2008-03-25 09:47:55
Rip your DVDs to .vob files and rename them to .mpg's. Premiere GENERALLY will play well with renamed vobs, but occasionally you'll need something like Mediacoder (or any other common translator) to rewrite them as mpg streams.
I've used VirtualDub quite a bit for generating subtitle video streams from SRT files... it's a lot simpler (and much faster for rendering) than Premiere and may do everything you need. One caveat, Premiere does not play well with VirtualDub audio output... not really a consideration if you can do everything you need in VDub. If you are going to work with both programs, call me and I'll probably talk you out of it.
A final note, I've had very bad luck with Adobe's encoders in CS2. Native containerized AVI (the default) or mpeg2 MPG (if you're going to rewrite to DVD with Encore) and WMV all seem to work fine in Premiere but I've had major problems trying to directly encode to Divx or Quicktime. A standalone encoder seems required to output mpeg4 based streams.
As always, my rates for editing porn are quite reasonable :)
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