Making Movies, Hollywood Style...

[bd43]

What’s everyone using to produce their videos? I’ve got Pinnacle Studio 11 and it works like crap with the AVI files my onboard DVR records. This production was made with Microsoft’s Moviemaker. Anyone using Roxio Creator or others that would be good?

bd43_vid1.wmv (2MB)

[damnpoor]

Hey, isn't that a 35 zone? :P

[tolgatt]

i use Ulead Video Studio 8 to edit and roxio easy video creator 9 to make dvd's and convert videos...im very happy with them,,i had an older version of pinnacle, never liked it

[Avalon786]

I use windows movie maker...very easy and simple but i know i can do better

[stevesnj]

I teach Video Production and use Final Cut Pro. It takes some effort to learn but its a professional application. I would suggest Avid or Adobe Premier

[bd43]

Originally Posted by damnpoor

Hey, isn't that a 35 zone? :P

This is Canada, we like to make it look faster.... , that was actually a 50kph zone.

[bd43]

Ouch, that Adobe Premier is some serious $$$ but I'm sure it does a great job. I was looking at the Roxio Easy Media Creator 10. Maybe it'll be a lemon like the Pinnacle Studio 11.

The problem that I'm encountering on the PS11, is rendering the AVI file which I believe is DivX4/5. The file plays fine in Media Player 11 and 9 times out of 10 renders in Movie Maker. PS11 freezes play after a couple of seconds and additional scenes are green.

I think it's a PS11 issue but it bothers me that the Moviemaker does it sometimes too. However, I'm evaluating the "4U AVI Mpeg Converter" software for 20 days and PS11 seems to work better when the AVI is converted to MPEG before I bring it into PS11.

Whoever has a descent movie maker software package, can you try rendering this raw AVI file and tell me if your package works, and without the freezing?

AVI File (9MB)

Thanks.

[clunk]

I don't know if this'll help at all, but I have PS11 (Version 11.1.2.5231), and I was able to render your AVI as a .WMV and a .MPG w/ no probs. Do you have latest updates? Are you using any other advanced features or settings?

[tolgatt]

Originally Posted by biker_dude43

Ouch, that Adobe Premier is some serious $$$ but I'm sure it does a great job. I was looking at the Roxio Easy Media Creator 10. Maybe it'll be a lemon like the Pinnacle Studio 11.

The problem that I'm encountering on the PS11, is rendering the AVI file which I believe is DivX4/5. The file plays fine in Media Player 11 and 9 times out of 10 renders in Movie Maker. PS11 freezes play after a couple of seconds and additional scenes are green.

I think it's a PS11 issue but it bothers me that the Moviemaker does it sometimes too. However, I'm evaluating the "4U AVI Mpeg Converter" software for 20 days and PS11 seems to work better when the AVI is converted to MPEG before I bring it into PS11.

Whoever has a descent movie maker software package, can you try rendering this raw AVI file and tell me if your package works, and without the freezing?

AVI File (9MB)

Thanks.

OK ,I used my software which is Ulead Video Studio 8.0 and rendered your clip to "wmv" and "mpg" with no problems

here are the links for those videos :

biker_wmv

biker_mpg


the problem might be not the software you are usin but the missing codecs that you may need,,you should download a full video codec pack and install to your computer first..like "K-lite Full Codec Pack"
it might solve your problem

[bd43]

Originally Posted by clunk

I don't know if this'll help at all, but I have PS11 (Version 11.1.2.5231), and I was able to render your AVI as a .WMV and a .MPG w/ no probs. Do you have latest updates? Are you using any other advanced features or settings?

Yup, same version I have. Pinnacle Support told me to udate my video driver. I have the latest. I have been trying earlier versions of the driver with no luck. Here I thought 1), the DVR that I have records in a foreign AVI format, or 2) Pinnacle is a POS (I had PS9 before I uprgaded, didn't work for that one so I switched to PS11).

I was hoping someone else couldn't get it to work and I would just go out and get Creator 10. Guess that's not going to solve my problem either.

Thanks. for checking.