TBC Brass Band LIVE - New Orleans

This is my first attempt at any kind of real video editing so please go easy on me... I only had 1 camera (a crappy SD Sony) so I had to do a lot of edit cuts to make this look interesting.

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[healingpaws681]

Thank you for your response. how did you get the video files to your computer. I was reading the manual and it made no sense to me. It says you can't do any editing to the videos if it is saved on the hard disk. I just got a Sony DCR DVD92 and I didn't realize it would be so challenging to edit the files.

[indiegun]

@healingpaws681

I had the same problem. I gave up and just played the video directly to my Pinnacle TV Video Capture Card (using the camera's yellow,white & red cables) and saved it as an .mpg file.

If you don't have a capture card you'll have to put your mini-dvd into your computer, transfer the .vob files onto your hard drive and convert them to some format you can actually edit.

You might search on the web for 'convert VOB to mpg (or avi or wmv).

What software do you plan to use to edit?

[indiegun]

The vid played smooth on my machine and didn’t get artifacts until uploaded to YT. The crappy quality has me pretty bummed and I’d really like to fix it and replace the one on the web with a fixed version. I just don’t have the experience to know which codec/settings to use.

I noticed too that because I edited everything on an old worn out CRT monitor I pushed the contrast way too high so the vid has a ‘washed out’ look on any other computer. - a lot of learning to do....

[indiegun]

Camera shot 720x480i 29.97 FPS which I played as Composite video to a PC Pinnacle TV-Pro capture card (my software can’t edit the camera’s .mov files). Raw files were dot mpg.

I de-interlaced and edited in Adobe Premier CS3 and used CS3 Adobe Media Encoder to compress to WMV. I kept the resolution and frame rate the same for the compression.

Compression settings: Mpeg2 720x480. 29.97 FPS (non-drop frame)

Quality 4.0 Field Order ‘Lower’

VBR, 2 Pass, Bitrates: Min 2.499, Tgt 4.2, Max 6

[healingpaws681]

how did you convert to WMV file and what editing program did you use?

[indiegun]

@healingpaws681

Sorry - didn't actually hit 'reply' when I posted my settings. They're in the comments now.

[indiegun]

This is my first YT post. I notice an annoying line of distortion cutting across the whole screen. My original file does not have that line - it must have happened during Youtube's compression process. Anyone know what caused that or how I can avoid that in the future? My file was a WMV and played perfectly fine on my computer. - thanks -