Posted by Bruce Sherman on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/video-software-suggestions-tp1509509p1509511.html

I use Ulead Video Studio 10. I believe they just released version 11. I can extract video directly from non copy protected DVD's.

Ulead software can be downloaded on a trial basis from their website www.ulead.com for a free 30 day trial.

I also do lots of video editing, and I know what you mean by using different software for different aspects. But you sound like you do short video clips, while I tend to do longer programs. I have a video website of Disneyworld attractions I post for people to view. I have several different versions, from lower quality wmv to high quality mp4's.

hope this helps.

Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Martin
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 4:07 PM
Subject: [SHADO] video software suggestions?


Hi all,

I've been thinking about updating some of the video clips
to higher quality on my UFO website, and also adding some
new ones. As I've just been experimenting here, I'm
reminded that one of the biggest and most frustrating
obstacles about this is finding decent software to
use. I generally find some sort of solution
that requires 6 different programs, and I end up using
each program for basically one step of the process.
I've tried more general programs, but they usually
crash or cannot do what I want.

So, I'll put a question out there for the group -- does
anyone have any programs that they can honestly recommend
as good programs and will do several of the following steps?

-- extract video clips from a DVD
-- trim/edit clip
-- adjust the audio track via limiting/compression/
volume/equalization
-- crop unwanted edges from the picture
-- resize the video
-- adjust the picture (brightness/contrast/gamma/
hue/color saturation/sharpness)
-- save to an MPEG-4 file, with adjustments
allowed for video/audio bitrate/quality, frame rate,
audio channels (mono/stereo)
-- runs on Windows XP

Oh, and it also shouldn't cost too much money, should not
require too much memory, not be bloated with all sorts of
additional features that I have no use for, not crash
all the time, and not have a difficult to use interface.

Like I said, I do have a way to do all of the above, but
it's a rather cumbersome process requiring a variety of
freeware/shareware programs.

Thanks!

Marc




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