Video editing HELP needed!

[Motoracer]

Hi,

I undertook a huge project about a month ago for my G/F's BD.

I wanted to make a doccumentary about her life and give it to her.

I have done everything, script, footage, audio files, pics etc...

BUT! my PC is too slow to edit this! :-(

Can I please pay someone out there to do this over the weekend or can I please please rent a power full computer for this.

I am desperate. Please help!

Sudeep.

[Gremlin]

You may want to point out what software you need to do it, and what sort of grunt you have in mind...

FWIW, mine is 4600+ w/ 4gb of ram and plenty of hdd - no delivery tho, it stays where it is, let me know if you're interested

[NighthawkNZ]

Mines plenty gusty enough to do the job and have a variety of software (and some hardware) but like Gremlin it stays where its... and I live Dunedin... sorry I can't help... :doh:

[Motoracer]

My PC has 1.4GH/1.5GB RAM / 256MB graphics card

I was trying to run various software, Adobe premier CS3/Pinacle studio 9 even down to the simple windows movie maker.

When I start building up the files they all slow down cause the files are high quality! Around 70mb to 200mb each. (8GB of files all together).

Either I can come and use the computer a few times on Sat and whole day on Sunday OR the script is clear enough for someone to do this if they have done it before.. Deadline is Monday morning. (we can talk about payment via PM or text etc)

OR can some one point me to the right direction to reduce the quality of these files properly so that I can try it at home myself.

Cheers!

[Motoracer]

Anyone anyone? :(

[doc]

Anyone anyone? :(

Surfchick seems to know her stuff PM her.

[megageoff76]

My wife was an editor for TV3 news, and she would do it for you, shame you live in Auckland though. She says its takes roughly an hour and a bit for about 1 minute of footage, so hopefully your doco isn;t too long :sweatdrop

[Winston001]

Can't help sorry but just wanted to say you are staunch for doing this for her. I've done a small bit of video editing and it is very time consuming. Used Ulead but Moviemaker should do it for you. You actually have enough RAM unless you are running Vista and your graphics card should handle it.

If you are using a laptop then you are up against the speed of your hard-drive which is slower than a desktop.

[onearmedbandit]

His CPU is the main problem, it's just too slow. I could do it MR, got the hardware and software but alas wrong location.

[Gremlin]

Well, I'll see if my pc can help him.

afaik, my limiting factor is hdd write speed, coz I wasn't forking out for 10k drives. Not doing video editing myself, anyone know approx what you need to hammer through the tasks? (obviously the faster the better, but a rough guide for good results?)

[Brett]

Sorry Sudeep mate, I would love to help you, but I work off two laptops that don't have much better specs than your PC! I hope someone helps sort you out man!

[Motoracer]

Thanks for the support and info guys

Mine is a PC and the doco will be approx 45 mins long. (I had to loose sleep a few times just to track down 15 of her bestest mates with out her knowing about it). So I was close to crying when it didn't work

But, now I have good news. I found a way to make the files into WMA wich makes files 41mb big to 1.5mb. The quality is not bad in full screen in a pc so it's ok. Better than nothing and it's definetly better than most of the you tube quality.

Gremlin's helping me out with finalising it. Thanks heaps man I owe you.

Cheers! :)

[Patch]

Thanks for the support and info guys

Mine is a PC and the doco will be approx 45 mins long. (I had to loose sleep a few times just to track down 15 of her bestest mates with out her knowing about it). So I was close to crying when it didn't work

But, now I have good news. I found a way to make the files into WMA wich makes files 41mb big to 1.5mb. The quality is not bad in full screen in a pc so it's ok. Better than nothing and it's definetly better than most of the you tube quality.

Gremlin's helping me out with finalising it. Thanks heaps man I owe you.

Cheers! :)
Don't forget a big bunch of her favourite flowers too bro :niceone: nice work both of ya

[Gremlin]

nice work both of ya
now now, lets leave credit where its due... he did all the compiling editing and creating of the projects etc. I'm just combining the projects into video files... real hard work :whistle:

Its creating 80-120mb files in 10-20min a file, only 7-8 files, so not too hard at all. Very handy having multiple raids, as its reading from one, writing to another, speeding it up even more. MR reckoned his pc would take 250min per file... so yeh, hopefully we'll have this finished for him ASAP. :clap:

[quallman1234]

Run vegas (trial version if you have too preferably vegas 4 or something oldish) Vegas = Very stable with large files! - Even on a substandard computer.

[Gremlin]

well, some have fired through fine... stuck on 2 projects. One has a mpg it hates, the other has a corrupt audio file I think.

He's busy re-making them now... problem is, the issues make movie maker unstable, so we have been unable to edit the existing project. :oi-grr:

[Motoracer]

And.... Its done! :banana:

First of all.. the BIGEST thank you to Gremlin. He's THE man!

Plus a bloody good dude to help me out from 2:30 PM till midnight. It would not have been possible with out your and your computer's help. Thanks heaps again!

After coming home, I watched it. It's 98% good with 2 pretty minor mistakes in the movie but I think it really is the thought that'll count on this. So it's cool.

I fed-exed it and it should arrive into Germany (where she is) on Wednesday to make it in time for her birthday on Friday.

I feel really happy and relived now...

P.S. If you wana make a movie with some flash effects? Forget about it unless if you have a VERY flash computer..

Cheers!! :)

[Hoon]

Good stuff MR! The hard work you put in is rewarded when you see people watching the final product!

I hate editing video. Learned and did it once for a small project - took me ages but came out fantastic - vowed never to do it again. But now everyone that saw it keeps asking me to do stuff for them.

Video editing is very time consuming. The general formula is 1 hr of work for every min of finished footage. Double that if you want to clean up the sound as well. I tried pretty much every editing application out there, read a lot of reviews and settled on Roxio 7 as my main workhorse. It doesn't have all the features of Premiere/Pinnacle but it is very stable. If I need anything flash I just edit that segment in Premiere/Pinnacle then export it back to Roxio.