video editing software

Reality Bites · 12 May 2008 at 22:12

I've got a couple of videos in a dvd format as well as some photos on another cd.

Does anyone know of any software where i can merge the two so i can play a video, then show some pictures, play a video and show pictures again etc?

Reality Bites · 13 May 2008 at 10:45

whats vegas? i'll try google, but i'm bound to get gambling holiday sites lol.

Reality Bites · 13 May 2008 at 10:59

just found it.....a sony product. I've downloaded a trial so hopefully that will let me do what i need to do.

thanks.

Reality Bites · 13 May 2008 at 11:00

bledd. said:
sony vegas it's called

never used it mind, it's a rival to adobe premiere, but i think it's far simpler to use...

a friend of mine tried with adobe but it wouldn't read DVD formats. I would have to convert from DVD to AVI or something similar. The convertion takes quiet a bit of quality from the movie.

Reality Bites · 13 May 2008 at 12:48

Drizmod said:
Been a while since i've done some dvd editing but im sure you can rip a dvd as two seperate audio and video streams and then mux them back together as a .mpg (no loss of quality as no conversion has taken place) file which can then be imported to any video editing software.

for some reason adobe wouldn't read a dvd format to work with at all. If i could rip it like you've described, that would be just what i need

Reality Bites · 14 May 2008 at 13:04

i managed to get it done using the evaluation of Vegas. No way i can afford to buy it though!

I think the pinnacle studio will do most of what i need to do in the future though.