Comments on: Video editing software recommendations

By: Dominico Hastings

Dominico Hastings — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:56:50 +0000

Video Studio’s pretty good from what I here. Give it a shot.

By: peter donegan

peter donegan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:22:33 +0000

nice one tom [and 20!]
if you saw me trying to get a dvd recoring from the tv onto the web you’d laugh more…. any suggestions tommy?
cheers peter

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:30:30 +0000

LOL,

that was Twenty’s suggestion Peter and if you saw my garden, you’d know you were safe enough!

By: peter donegan

peter donegan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:44:39 +0000

I expect the name of the site to change to Tom Rafteryâ€™s Landscape Gardening soâ€¦

ah come on leave [!!?] me some web Tom

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:09:02 +0000

Tim,

thanks for the recommendation.

I looked into the Canon HV20 but when it is compared to the Sony HDR-SR1 (which I decided on) the Sony seems to come out ahead - see the review of the Canon HV20 and the review of the Sony HDR SR1 on CamcorderInfo

On the software front, I am now using Stephen’s suggestion of Pinnacle Studio and it seems to work quite well (although it is no iMovie!).

By: Tim Trautmann

Tim Trautmann — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:53:16 +0000

Maybe you should consider selling your camera and switch to something that actually works without much complication. I bought the Canon HV20 which works like a charm with both iMovie HD and Fincal Cut.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:10:02 +0000

Stephen,

nice one - that looks promising alright. Shame they only sell boxed versions (no download option) and they don’t have a trial download facility either.

I’d love to try before buying!

By: Stephen Judge

Stephen Judge — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:54:13 +0000

Have you looked at Avid. It is used widely by professional editors on both PC and MAC. They own Pinnacle Systems, and in this press release: http://url.ie/449 ,they are supporting AVCHD.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Sun, 20 May 2007 20:13:53 +0000

iMovie was one of the first things I tried Branedy. It would be my editor of choice (shows how professional a video editor I am!).

Unfortunately it doesn’t recognise the format

By: Branedy

Branedy — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:27:44 +0000

What about iMovie HD?

By: Brian Shoff

Brian Shoff — Fri, 18 May 2007 20:47:54 +0000

I too have struggled with the AVCHD codec. I’m constantly on the lookout for a permanent solution. The good news is I’ve heard that the new version of Premiere CS3 will support it.

The bad news is, I have Nero 7 and the codec it uses doesn’t play back properly. The best luck I’ve had so far is with PowerDVD 7. But even that isn’t perfect.

::Shameless Plug::

Obviously delete this next part if you’d like, but I did write an article about how to use PowerDVD 7 in conjunction with TMPGEnc 4 called “One Solution for Editing AVCHD”. Check it out if you’d like.

http://www.brianshoff.com/tech/one-solution-for-editing-avchd.htm

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:03:21 +0000

I expect the name of the site to change to Tom Raftery’s Landscape Gardening so…

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:50:27 +0000

LOL,

I bought a strimmer the other day Twenty and when I tried it out last night, it worked a treat!

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:31:27 +0000

I mean, have you ever bought anything that actually worked first time?!

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:31:07 +0000

Tom, for a guy that works so much with computers you don’t half have your fair share of problems.