Help with combining 2 digital video/s...

Help with combining 2 digital video/sound files.

Posted on Feb 28, 2010 12:30 pm
m2244
Member Since: Feb 28, 2010

I am helping a local church do some video and sound recording. Tonight we are having a meeting about some new equipment they are getting. I am a computer programmer so this video and sound stuff is new to me. Right now, when we record a sermon we have to dub it back and forth from VHS to DVD. We have to do it a couple of times in order to add a 3 or 4 minute introduction to the beginning of each recording. My question is, can anyone tell me about some sort of software that will let me do this video editing digitally. I would like to have the 3 or 4 minute introduction in digital format on a computer and then when we record that day's sermon, just take the 2 files and "edit" them together and burn it to CD. I was hoping there was some free application I could use to do this sort of thing. I hope this makes sense. Any help would be very much appreciated.

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dbmasters
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Since: Apr 03, 2002

Mar 01, 2010 11:10 am

Windows and Mac come with free apps to do simple video editing. Windows Movie Maker and iMovie (I think that's the name)...for low priced options, I like Pinnacle Studio or, if you have money to burn, Adobe Premiere is pretty good, I find Pinnacle studio easier to use tho...you can edit video, ad sound tracks, add transitions between clips and all that stuff.

pjk
Prince CZAR-ming
Member
Since: Apr 08, 2004

Mar 01, 2010 11:27 pm

I'm a fan of Vegas Movie Studio. I bought Ver 8 platinum when ver 9 was out, so I got it for 21$ on ebay. Nice.

But, for what you're doing, I'm pretty sure you can do it with either free apps dB mentioned.

I just looked at iMovieHD on Mac. Wow, that's pretty cool. It's got kick butt themes and such, though I don't really know how to use it. Very nice though, for free ( kinda, costs you a mac to use it ).

Makes windows movie maker look like kindergarten, though WMM is still capable and decent for putting a couple segments together w/ audio and some cuts, etc.