Yesterday, I took some great footage of the dirty dozen bike race from the CC Van. I have been trying to edit this video all morning. Trouble is the format is not read natively by Vista or XP, but by Windows 7. It also is not a native format to any video editing software I own. So I did some searching, and found that Windows Live Movie Maker for Windows Video is free and can edit the streams from the Canon HD Video Camera my son Owns. I downloaded it last night, a lengthy process, and tried to edit this morning.
I first tried to download the video directly from the card, sorry no good. Then I plugged in the camera to the usa port, and it took nearly 1/2hr to create the clips. Then I was able to import the stream from the camera onto Windows Movie Maker, but it had to convert the files before I could edit them. This started about an hour ago.....Tic Toc. Of the 15 video clips I imported, (not all clips from the race mind you), WMM only converted 5 so far...Tic Toc. This is going to a costly time consuming venture I think. Next time I use the cheep HD camera (flip Type) that I can natively edit. Wow!
Hope the quality justifies the time spent.
Not sure how the new Movie Maker works or the extent to which I can create a decent video either...We will just have to wait...and wait...and wait to see.
Wish me luck!
T
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