Music Video Editor

Subject: Music Video Editor
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 08:08 PM

A friend gave me a 2-CD set containing 2 hours of video of a recent concert by our band ShoreGrass. Is there any software out there that someone could recommend to edit this video into short clips and possibly even improve the contrast, color balance, frame composition, etc?

I may even already have something on my desktop or laptop. Can someone point me to a likely editor?

Oh, and did I mention FREE?

Subject: RE: Music Video Editor
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 08:44 PM

After a bit of homework I discovered that these videos are in Power DVD format. Do I need to convert them first to a different format?

Subject: RE: Music Video Editor
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 11:22 PM

here's one source for that kind of thing.

http://www.minidvdsoft.com/index.html

and one more..

http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html

this may or may not be useful

http://www.dvdflick.net/
(I get 'most' of my info on this sort of thing from the alt.comp.freeware Usenet group)

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One more post copied from that newsgroup(posted by the resident expert on DVD stuff.) Some of the software is devoted to ripping/converting...etc...commercial DVDs, but it may also do simpler stuff.

(Someone said that DVDs are in MP2 format, if that is useful)


AVStoDVD
http://avstodvd.googlepages.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/avstodvd/

AVStoDVD is a flexible tool to convert various media
formats to DVD compliant streams, AVStoDVD has also
a Internal DVD Menu Editor where you can make menus
and burn them into a highly compatible multiple tracks DVD.


AVStoDVD uses the following programs.
AviSynth, QuEnc, HCenc, ReJig, FFmpeg, Aften,
SubtitlesCreator, MuxMan, BatchMux & ImgBurn