Software for editing: Am I missing something, or did they really drop the ball and not include a way for me to work with the movie files?
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I have the same problem and don't get any help from the Sanyo website. Has anyone had success using Vista?
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Windows Moviemaker is junk. Toshiba included the wrong version of MediaImpression in my package but ArcSoft upgraded it for free. It is a decent program. I dub most of my videos but my Camileo produces a very low level audio that needs boosting, for which I have used Avidemux. If you choose to dub, I recommend Audacity.
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I use a Mac, transfer video from the camera to iMovie, edit as needed, then save it as a QuickTime movie which I transfer to iDVD & burn. This may sound like a lot of steps, but seldom is what I "tape" exactly what I want to save. By editing, I can make the taped material halfway decent. Much better than using it just as it was taped.
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It works with iMovie but that's about all. The camcorder saves it as a .modWhen I want to edit with software other than iMovie, I've gotta convert it. Do a google search for ".mod file" for more info on compatibility, etc.
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I found a program that you can download the trial and so far it works good. I could no longer use Sony Vegas 9 since I upgraded to 64 bit Vista. The name of the program is Magix Movie Edit Pro 15 and its actually pretty easy to use but it cost about seventy bucks or so.
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Dear Valery: With this Sony Movie Studio Platinum Suite 12 software, you have many choices of audio editing, for example you can extract the audio from a video, you can change the volume of a song in MP3, you can make conversions of audio from one format to another, mix, trim, add, add silence between songs, add fade at the beginning and at the end of a song, you can add special effects, among other things but I'm commenting only a few options that I've used, but still have not used most of the options that the software has naturally required patience and time to take advantage of the program, as it also has an excellent tutorial that will indicating you step by step how to do, it is really very well recommend it since I've had other editors and this is the best and all off the foregoing their specialty is the edition of video clips.
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I have a couple of different editing software at my disposal either at home or at work. neither are high price, high quality editing. I edit my videos just minimally.
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Yes. It comes with film editing software. It is on the disk that comes with the camera. Other free editing software, if you prefer - download Picasa or Gimp. Google to find them. You only need one or the other, not both - OR just use what comes with the camera. it works fine also. Picasa and Gimp are both free and both do a good job.
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I am now upgraded to Version 12. I am not sure what you mean by "narrative scene editing" but you can do pretty much everything in terms of editing a video. Ideally would be to contact them directly. But again, it is a very powerful software.
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NO, do NOT get a MAC. Overpriced and WAY over-hyped. I can edit 60p with ZERO chop on one of my meager core-duo laptops at 1.8ghz, with effects and PIP's, etc. no problem. You probably are not optimally configured both in hardware and software. What kind of hard drive do you have? This is a very likely culprit. I typically only edit on RAID0 configs because of their awesome speed, and this is where the bottle-neck is really. Also, get some real editing software. I've been using Edius for 10+ years now, and it is simply THE BEST NLE software I have ever used bar none (Vegas, Avid, Premiere Pro through CS4, and yes (sigh) Final Crap Pro). It is incredibly fast, stable, and supports mixed formats and more on a single timeline. Best wishes in any case.
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Final Cut's keyer is okay. Make sure your screen is evenly lit and shadow free for the best results. The low budget movie I'm working on currently I use the node based compositor in Blender. Which is a free, open source program but very powerful.
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Install included software HD writer so you can transfer video files to PC then use editing software such as Corel video studio pro X3 to make your movie
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I have not done those functions. Its a pretty simple software program, simple enough my 11 year old uses it to edit her home made movies to upload to YouTube. She trims video segments, Adds Titles and ending credits, and organizes segments into 1 video file. My guess is, it will not do any of what you are asking as I do not remember seeing those functions.....Good Luck
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Hmmm. Mac OS....I must have missed that. I don't have much experience with Macs but there is bound to be something that will work for you. The important thing to remember is that the .MOD file is just a container for a .mpeg file. If you do find a Mac based editing program try changing the extension from .MOD to .mpeg as I mentioned before. The important thing is to avoid recoding the original file in order to maintain quality. Let us know how it goes.
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I'm now using Edius and it's the finest video editor I've seen. It far exceeds Final Cut Pro or Adobe Pro in price and I don't suppose they could perform any better, especially not on my pc. I even tried it on my laptop and it works fine, the render time is longer though.
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I have not used this software in years, switched to Adobe Premiere. I suggest going to the official final cut software website and inquiring.
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This is stand alone software to edit video. You can make movies with it. You cannot burn dvds with it.