Aaron (and others it applies to)-

What HD video editor are you using for your vidoes?

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I still like the TCW.

I use iMovie at college. I'm not a fan of MACs at all, but its a very easy to use program. The only tough part about it is knowing what levels the compression should be at for export formats. Besides that, its a very user friendly program to use.

Here are some of my videos. I try to upload at least one new one each week-
http://www.youtube.com/user/SD457500

Douglas
New Brighton, MN
http://wc_sd45_7500.rrpicturearchives.net/
http://www.youtube.com/user/SD457500

I am actually using the bundled software with the JVC camera I have. It is Power Director, I haven't purchased the full program so the version I am using is very basic.

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Do either of you find it very time consuming to encode HD video? I know I don't have a powerhouse computer... but it takes forever!

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I still like the TCW.

Well, I use the computers at Bethel University, they're only a few months old, and depending on the video length and compression it can take anywhere from five minutes to twenty. The videos usually vary from 250mgs to 900mgs once they've been compressed and edited. Just for kicks I let a video be exported at full quality, and it took about an hour to export and was three gigs! The new computers at Bethel could barley push the video without jamming.

In iMovie, here are my video compression settings that work best for me, and when uploaded to youtube, can be viewed in HD.
-Movie Settings-
Compression: H.264
Quality: High
Frame rendering: Yes
Encoding Mode: Multi Pass
Dimensions: 1280X720 (1248X702)

-Audio settings-
Format: Integer
Sample Rate: 48,000 kHz
Sample Size: 16-bit
Channels: Stereo (L R)

Hope this helps you out a bit

Douglas
New Brighton, MN
http://wc_sd45_7500.rrpicturearchives.net/
http://www.youtube.com/user/SD457500

Aaron, what type of JVC camera do you use?

Douglas
New Brighton, MN
http://wc_sd45_7500.rrpicturearchives.net/
http://www.youtube.com/user/SD457500

It is the Everio GZ-HD10. I picked it up New Year's Day, so I haven't had it that long - and I am not at all familiar with video editting. The software is very easy to use.

To answer an earlier question: for about every 3 minutes of video, it takes about 45 minutes of processing time on this HP laptop. I process the vids into WMV files.

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Bringing up an old thread here... do you guys have a problem with the interlacing? I have yet to find a way to convert the 60fps to 30fps for crisper and more smoth playback.

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I still like the TCW.

To tell you the truth, I haven't done much more than learn how to "leave stuff on the cutting room floor" as it were - add titles - add transitions. Plus, it is the bundled, version. Pretty basic.

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