I am a new dabbler in video editing. I have a number of VHS tapes of speeches - not too much motion. They are in general 1-2 hours each. They idea is to bring them to the PC do very basic editing such as adding a title and cutting a minute or two here and there. After that they wouold be put into DVD format and burned and/or put back onto VHS.
Avi files are just too big especially for 720x480 resolution (Im trying to get the largest) therefore I would like to have my video card automatically save them as mpeg2 as it comes in.
My question: On what type of mpeg2 editing does videoredo have the advantage over the other larger software packages such as pinnacle, adobe and ulead?
Do the current versions of pinnacle, adobe ... still recompress the whole hour if I only edit a few minutes of the file?
If not what do they still do that degrades the quality that videoredo does not do?
Finally what software should I get for the above - I already have a video pci card that reads in the video into Mpeg2 (and theoretically avi) and a DVD burner.
Avi files are just too big especially for 720x480 resolution (Im trying to get the largest) therefore I would like to have my video card automatically save them as mpeg2 as it comes in.
My question: On what type of mpeg2 editing does videoredo have the advantage over the other larger software packages such as pinnacle, adobe and ulead?
Do the current versions of pinnacle, adobe ... still recompress the whole hour if I only edit a few minutes of the file?
If not what do they still do that degrades the quality that videoredo does not do?
Finally what software should I get for the above - I already have a video pci card that reads in the video into Mpeg2 (and theoretically avi) and a DVD burner.