August. At last I have made some time to compile the video clips I took on the Italian holiday. The clips are high definition and I am using Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD to edit them. There is a big learning curve with this program but it is very powerful and
quite good fun. It is very time consuming – chopping out all the bad bits, then
putting in some music and voiceover to explain where we are and what we are doing.
The edited length is about 40 minutes – ok for the four of us who went to Italy, but I’m
not sure I want to inflict that much on anyone else! HD editing needs a powerful
computer. My old one would not even display the clips without stuttering, but my new one is a Core i7 with lots of memory and is coping well. Even so, rendering
the 40-minute clip and burning it to DVD takes about half an hour. The DVD looks good, but there is some moire patterning in some shots. I burned a blu-ray disc and that is superb quality, very clear.
I’ve also compiled some video of when we went to Gerroa and the wedding at Kangaroo Valley with Bob and Julie.
