This is not a religious statement, or a troll, but a practical experience tip.
If you have any access to a Mac, iMovie is painless. Having worked for 20 years on various video editing systems, I can say that iMovie is the most powerful AND easiest platform I have used. I do miss my Toaster, though. I have not yet been able to edit video on a PC with any consumer-grade video editing software. The closest to usable was Adobe Premier. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Ian Skinner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am seeking all help and advice I can get from this diverse group. > > I have now spent over three days trying to accomplish what I though > would be a fairly simple task. Especially since the first part (that I > thought would be the hardest) went so easy. > > I have an one hour mpeg video file that I have converted from a tivo > vido file that I downloaded from my DVR. All I want to do now is trim > out a total of approximately 5 minutes from two sections of that one > hour source file. Then combine the two sections and publish them to my > web site for family and friends to see. > > Having never done any digital video editing in my over a decade of web > site development this has been quite a weekend of learning. But I have > failed to successfully edit this video, let alone get it published. > > I have Microsoft Movie Maker and HP Media Center bundled on my 8GB 64bit > Windows Vista Home Premium laptop. Neither seem capable of trimming my > original file. Movie Maker seems to make a valiant effort but > constantly fails with an 0x8007000 error which as best as I can guess > might be indicating an out of memory error. > > I spent many hours trying out half a dozen other tools, but with little > luck. It looks like video editing tools worth using require a purchase > which I would actually be happy with, if I was sure the tool would be > well supported, work on my machine and actually do the jobs I need it to > do. (With a big hurdle being I am so new to this, I am unclear what > those jobs actually are yet.) > > Any suggestions, hints or good sources of information I can tap into? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308280 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
