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Topic: What video programme, for my needs?
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Al Wilkie
Junior
Posts: 18
From: Gloucester, UK
Registered: Feb 2015
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posted March 28, 2018 05:22 PM
I have looked through the forums but would like more guidance regarding video programmes. Thanks to help from these forums I have bought & converted my 8mm movies. They were all scanned at 30fps. I need to convert them to the 3 original speeds. 16fps, 18fps & 24fps so they play on other equipment at the correct speed. Once that is done I need to add the original sound to them. I can take the sound from the movies with a Tascam recorder that converts it to mp3 or wav. I also have a few Super 8mm movies I shot in cinemascope, so I also need a programme that can un'stretch them, so they remain unstretched. I can playback with VLC in the correct cinemascope format, but I want them permanently converted so I don't have to sellect cinemascope every time. I have been shooting 4k videos for over a year & would like to edit them & leave them as 4k videos. I have Adobe Premiere Elements 13, but I can't get on with it. I don't even know if it will do what I want??? I have been recommended to use 'Magix movie edit' for the 4k, but I don't know if it will do all the other things I require. I would like something that is easy & if possible, cheap. Lastly would the programme also clean up the movies as I have seen on YT, or would I need an add on? Thanks for any advice.
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Al Wilkie
Junior
Posts: 18
From: Gloucester, UK
Registered: Feb 2015
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posted April 04, 2018 02:40 AM
Sorry Janice I didn't make myself clear. It's just that I have tried so many ways, everything is merging.
Regarding the 4K video. I just tried that once. I put three clips together with a total of around 20 seconds. I let the programme choose the settings & after export it would not play in VLC, or anything for that matter. On top of that it took an hour to export, & I have a top of the range Macbook Pro.
However my main object at the moment is 8mm, initially to just change speed, add sound where necessary, & stretch a few movies that I shot in cinemascope. Once that is done I am happy to go deeper into the programme & play with color, brightness & so on.
My first attempt was a sound movie, but I wanted to take one step at a time, so I just cut the beginning & end film lead off & exported it with the programmes recommended settings. It played perfectly. Next step was to change speed to 18fps & add sound. This was easy. So again I exported with the programmes recommended settings. This also worked but there was several seconds of black at the end of the video. This was where my problems started. The movie & settings were in the programme, so I just edited out the black at the end, the same way I edited out the 8mm leads. I then exported the movie but it did not play. It was also a smaller file, yet I changed nothing.
I tried a couple of other short 8mm films to see if the problem persisted. Unfortuntely they did not play. I went over the original film & the new ones, again & again with the recommended setting & my own settings, but none would play & all the file sizes were smaller that the one that did play.
What do I want to do with the finished movie. I want to send it to You Tube, Facebook, Flickr & friends. I want it to play at the correct speed & format when others play it.
This clearly is a fault in the programme. As I said previously I want to buy it, but if the results are the same, then I will have wasted money. I won't go for Photoshop as I will never use a monthly pay system, I would buy outright but thats not possible.
I will copy this post & send it to Videopad.
Can anyone recommend an alternative programme I can try?
PS thanks for trying to help me Janice.
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