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[Keith Novak]

What are people using for video editing software for HD? I was trying to use Microsoft Movie Maker and it seems painfully awkward to do simple stuff like driving around under caution mid movie. It would be nice if I could start with .mov files which is the natural file type of my Contour HD.

[KentCarter]

I'm a big fan of Sony Vegas Video for Win7. Fairly simple, but very powerful.

[William Bonsell]

Keith...

Here is a link started over on the ICSCC forum. I tried the video editor recommended and found it to work really well for my GoProHD MP4 format. Haven't yet done any music or graphics yet, but for what I generally do, it's been very good. I am sure it will do more if I play around with it. I'm sure it will work for either Vimeo or Youtube.

http://www.icscc.com...-simplified-man

Bill-

[Muda]

I use Vegas 9.
Like all video editing software it is not very intuitive but there are instructional YouTube video for just about anything you want to do.
It easily and quickly renders to HD formats and is more powerful than you will ever need.

[svvs]

The new microsoft movie maker will handle .mp4 files from the gopro. it takes a while for the data to get into the program, but it works.

My basic plan for editing video goes like this:

1. Watch raw video. Take notes on what happens at what time.
2. Load into movie maker
3. With my notes, go through and create "spilts" at the appropriate times. IE: Race start at 7:42 in video, put split....interesting stuff ends at 8:57, put split.....next exciting moment is when something happens at 10:35...put split. This will create "dead space" in between the interesting moments.
4. Delete dead space.
5. Insert titles and witty comments. Also transitions.
6. If there are any items that you want to put in slow mo....you take that section that you've created, copy and paste it, and add the "slow mo" effect. Again, insert witty comments. If the need arises, make the comments self deprecating.
7. Post to you tube. post here. I found that saving in HD quality creates awesome video, but it's huge and can really only be appreciated when played on a TV or something.

I've played with vegas which is nice and lets you overlay two or more cameras into one screen (ie, if you had a back view, you could make a little picture in picture). I also played with the fancy adobe video editor....and couldn't figure anything out.

The big name video editors have samples you can download and play with. Worth it before spending money.

-vick

[Keith Novak]

Vick,
I was trying to do exactly what you said when I got frustrated. My puter didn't come with movie maker but I found you could download it for free if you have win 7, so I did. Seemed like it would be easy enough but after going through every function tab I couldn't figure out how to clip bits out or instructions. All I could do was clip bits to keep, and then I couldn't find an "undo" function so I shut it down a dozen times trying to get back to square one.

Thanks for the input guys. If (and probably when) I can't figure out how to use this program adequately I'll switch to Plan B.
Keith

[Todd Green]

Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11.0. Like others have said, quite the learning curve, but Google/Youtube are your friends. The interactive help isn't too bad either. It's nice that packages are starting to use the features of Sandybridge and/or your vid card to render much faster. I've been using MediaCoder for any transcoding I might want to do. TrackVision for data overlay. Vimeo for hosting.

[Keith Novak]

I forgot to post the vid I was trying to make when I posted this. Thanks to some help from Vick, I put together something short enough to send the friends and family to show how I waste my time. The audio on my Contour HD was really quiet for some reason but they don't care about the car noise so I dubbed in some AC/DC and after a bit of time editing where the scene cuts were got it to synch pretty good.

[svvs]

glad it worked! next time use some "Transitions" (ie fade in, fade out) btwn the clips to help define them.

by the way, what were those horrible cars? how much oil got put down on that wet track?

[Keith Novak]

Now that I figured out how to do a few things, I'll play with it more.

Everything from complete junkers to some pretty fast cars were out there. The Datsun roadster had the same motor as our car but was several hundred pounds lighter and would leave me in the straights so I kept having to make it up in corners. It actually set pretty respectable times for a real race while driving on street tires. The two of us had a lot of fun trading leads.

The track turned into a giant oil slick though. After a full course caution I took a real good look and the racing line had the ominous rainbow sheen and one tight corner leading to a straight looked like it had a 2 foot wide pool of oil where everyone tries to pass inside. Lots of cars took themselves out not realizing that. They'd slick up the RHS then find themselves in the wall at the first LH turn.

Thanks again!

[Tom Hampton]

Keith-

I have a gopro and my sound is similarly quiet and muffled. If you are using Sony Vegas, I've had good results in improving the sound with the attached sound filter. Since your camera is different, you'll have to play with it I'm sure, but it made a sginificant difference with my sound. Still not perfect, but...

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