Anyone out there know of a good video editing software?

Also what tpye of camcorder to get or what do you recommend.

I have a newborn and want to get his video collection started early.

Any ideas would be helpful.

Any camcorder that supports dumping DV tapes over a firewire connection to a computer.

gts@Xion ~ $ eix cinelerra
* media-video/cinelerra-cvs
Available versions: 20060219 20060619
Installed: 20060219
Homepage: http://cvs.cinelerra.org/
Description: Cinelerra - Professional Video Editor - Unofficial CVS-version

gts@Xion ~ $ eix kdenlive
* media-video/kdenlive
Available versions: [M]0.2.4 ~0.3.0
Installed: none
Homepage: http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/
Description: Kdenlive! (pronounced Kay-den-live) is a Non Linear Video Editing Suite for KDE.


gts@Xion ~ $ eix lives
* media-video/lives
Available versions: 0.7.1 0.8.1 0.8.5 0.9.1 0.9.5_pre3 0.9.5
Installed: 0.9.5
Homepage: http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives
Description: Linux Video Editing System

thanks!

I love Final Cut Pro, but that may be a little overkill for what you need ;-)

tarheelsben1 Wrote:I love Final Cut Pro, but that may be a little overkill for what you need ;-)

I think it would do the trick ;-) , just don't want to shell out that money....

I like mini dv as well


Shopping tips:

PAY FOR MORE OPTICAL ZOOM
DO NOT PAY FOR MORE DIGITAL ZOOM!!!
Pay for better lenses... i.e. Sony and Carl Zeis, Panasonic and ____, Cannon and ____. ___ b/c I can't remember what their better lenses are... but they make a huge difference in picture quality.
I like 3.5" screen on my camcorder but get > 2.5"

Personally I prefer Sony's. But read the labels not all models include remote, decent battery, ect. Plus some Sony models have a specially tinted LCd screen so it doesn't wash out in sunlight!!!

PirateTreasureNC Wrote:I like mini dv as well


Shopping tips:

PAY FOR MORE OPTICAL ZOOM
DO NOT PAY FOR MORE DIGITAL ZOOM!!!
Pay for better lenses... i.e. Sony and Carl Zeis, Panasonic and ____, Cannon and ____. ___ b/c I can't remember what their better lenses are... but they make a huge difference in picture quality.
I like 3.5" screen on my camcorder but get > 2.5"

Personally I prefer Sony's. But read the labels not all models include remote, decent battery, ect. Plus some Sony models have a specially tinted LCd screen so it doesn't wash out in sunlight!!!

Thanks! I guess this type is the kind that plugs directly into your computer to download the video? or is there some sort of "tape" to tranfer the video... thanks in advance... Can you please let me know what the different type are? ie mini dv vs the others? thanks !!!!!

Mini DV (digital tape)
Mini DVD ( they use usb 2.0 transfer or rip off the dvd in your computer)
Digital 8 (Digital quality recorded on Hi8 tapes)
HDD aka Hard Drive camcorders

And if you got some money tuo burn you can get HD Mini DV.. I think entry level models start @ $1500


I like Mini DV... and you buy Mini DV tapes for them. they use FireWire/IEEE1394/i Link cable to hook up to your pc. ..make sure your PC has a firewire port!!!

Virtual Dub, Free, Opensource?. anyway, its lightweight and does what you need it to do most the time.
http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

edit: GTS is crying because it is for windows only.
so yea

warning
ITS WINDOWS ONLY
yes it is open source (he should be happy about that)
uhhhhhhhhh
uhhhhh
yea....
gg hf.

tarheelsben1 Wrote:I love Final Cut Pro, but that may be a little overkill for what you need ;-)

Will this work on Windows? Or is this Mac only?

UCF_AlumniLXA Wrote:

tarheelsben1 Wrote:I love Final Cut Pro, but that may be a little overkill for what you need ;-)

Will this work on Windows? Or is this Mac only?

Blzer4Life Wrote:

UCF_AlumniLXA Wrote:

tarheelsben1 Wrote:I love Final Cut Pro, but that may be a little overkill for what you need ;-)

Will this work on Windows? Or is this Mac only?

Sorry, don't get the joke....