Re: HD editing software

Marshall,

I have used Cyperlink Power Director to do 2 of the 3 steps you desire, and
the 3rd step is done easily with a photo editor.

To accomplish step 1, I merely use the HDV capture codec built into Power
Director. No gaps are evident in the captured clip.

Step 2 is admittedly a very weak area of Power Director, but the Multitrim
Editor has "Next Frame" and "Previous Frame" buttons to move through the
captured HDV clip in both directions. The "SNAPSHOT" button (the small
camera icon) then allows the frame selected to be saved as a JPEG image.

Step 3 (if I understand your request correctly) is to select and crop area
of interest within the JPEG image. This is easily accomplished with many
photo editing programs using the JPEG capture file from Step 2 above.

Am I missing something or do I misunderstand your request?

Smarty




Cyberlink Power Director
"Marshall Dudley" <mdudley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Smarty wrote:

There are at least a half dozen relatively inexpensive programs which
edit
HDV video from the Sony camcorders, including Ulead Video Studio 10 Plus,
Cyperlink Power Director, the latest Nero Vision, Sony Home Studio Vegas,
Ulead Movie Factory 5, VideoReDoPlus, all of which are under $100.

Thnks, we found that Ulead Media Studio 8 does what we need, except it
gives an
insufficient memory error if you try to save in any compressed format.
They are
working on finding and hopefully fixing the bug (the computer has a gig of
memory).

The Cyperlink Power Director does NONE of the 3 things listed, that was
the
first one tried, and bought, but then found that it did not do any of
them.

Marshall



Adobe Premiere Pro, Ulead Media Studio Pro, Sony Vegas, and others can
be
had in the $100 and up range for more professional editing.

On the Mac, iMovie HD 5 and iMovie HD 6 as well as Final Cut Express HD
and
Final Cut Pro HD all do a very nice job as well.

Smarty

"Larry Bud" <larrybud2002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Marshall Dudley wrote:
Does anyone have a recommendation for software for editing HD jpeg
stream from a sony HD camera? All I need to do is a couple of very
simple things, but nothing I have found seems to support it (that is
reasonably priced).

1. Download the video from the camera and write it to to a file
without
leaving gaps in the material.
2. Allow me to single step one frame at a time through a section, and
capture any particular frame to a file.
3. Allow me to window an area of interest and generate a jpeg or wm
file
of only the information inside that window.

Don't the latest version of ULead Media Studio Pro and/or Adobe
Premiere do HD?




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