Video editing question

[Nocturnal]

My aunt is interested in taking film off of her Sony hi8 cam corder and editing it and creating DVDs. What is the most cost effective way to achieve said editing? I know it would have to be dled to a hard drive. Edited from the hdd then burnt to a DVD. Any idea how it could be a) edited on the fly and then burnt to DVD?

 

[Aquaman]

I'm in the same situation and I think I am going to use the Hauppage WinTV PVR 250. It's on sale

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[NetGuySC]

I am not sure if you can edit on the fly and then burn, for an hour video on Hi8 tape takes up about either 13gigs or 20+ gigs and then that has to be reduced down to fit on a dvd.

I recommend Pinnacle Studio 9 .. easy to use .. nice features if that is what you want and has great vid quality.

 

[Koing]

What do you 'want' from 'edited' on the 'fly'?

If you have access to a DVD recorder you could connect it up to it and record like that. Just pause the tape at which parts you don't want recorded. You won't get any transitions or anything like that. My dad has a DVD recorder and does it this way to DVD very easy. Just like using a video recorder basically.

Other option is to get a capture card like the 2 people above have said. Capture footage, edit with any software and then encode to mpeg2 and burn to dvd with the right folders.

Koing

 

[MustISO]

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