Holiday videos, editing between friends

imekon wrote on 9/28/2004, 1:17 AM
I've just got back from holiday with about an hour's video on my DV camera. I used Vegas capture to pull the raw footage off, now I want to edit the video. My usual way to do this is to trim some of the bad bits, the mistakes and leave it at that.

A friend who went with me on holiday wants the same video, like other trips we've been on together. We've tried sitting down together to edit the video, and, well, it doesn't really work too well!

What I'd like to try this time is produce an initial video for him to see and comment on, and then do an iterative edit, adding and removing as necessary. If he had Vegas, or another editor, he could do some of this himself, instead of feeding it back to me.

He does have a DVD video recorder which records to DVD-RAM disks using VRO format. I can load VRO as MPEG and edit it, but how would I produce something for a DVD-RAM disk he could load into his editor?

Comments

TorS wrote on 9/28/2004, 1:24 AM
Do your own video the way you like it and let him have a go at the same material (on your machine, if possible). Maybe even before you show him yours.
Further editing mpg or DVD material is a bad idea as long as you have the captured DV intact.
Tor
AlanC wrote on 9/28/2004, 7:26 AM
"how would I produce something for a DVD-RAM disk he could load into his editor?"

A domestic DVD recorder should read -R / +R discs which have been burnt via the PC. However, a lot of PC R/W and domestic DVD players won't play DVD-RAM.

imekon wrote on 9/29/2004, 12:57 AM
We both have DVD-RAM drives on our PCs; also his Panasonic DVD system uses DVD-RAM for editing/timeslip.