Wow, we had a professional company video tape our wedding and we just got the results back in the form of 5 DVDs. I am blown away!

We have the whole ceremony and recpetion from 2 different angles and I was wearing a wireless mike so you can hear the whole thing like it was that day again. Plus they interveiw our family and friends, man talk about some tear jerker moments!

We watched alot tonight, our two month anniversary and I am so happy I just had to share.

P.S. anyone know any good video editing software?

There's plenty of video editing programs if you google for it, except from what i saw they are all pretty expensive. Some are over 500$. The good part is that most of these programs have free trial periods, so take your pick.

Adobe Premiere is one of the best, but you'll pay a premiere price for it. :D

Of course, you can't really put a price on your wedding memories, now can you?

My friend uses this one and says it's just as good as Premiere

but he also says football (soccer) is the greatest fun in the universe so I don't know how reliable he is... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Thanks ya'll!!! :D Boy I'm drunk! [img]tongue.gif[/img]


Well I have used photoshop religiously since version 3.0 so Premiere maybe the best bet as I know adobe rocks.... though I am now on the strictest possible budget ( you can only imagine what two pro videographers cost- we skipped +$1000 more just for them to do an edited DVD!!!!) so the same or similiar functionality as premeiere but cheaper maybe better.


Oh yeah I need the power to do fairly complex sound editing as well. Like taking a song from one vidoe clip and putting over an intro montage. Does Premeiere have this sort of power or am I asking for too much? [img]smile.gif[/img]

congratulations!!!!!!
and try www.tucows.com for same free and shareware software!!!!

That's great to hear Chewbacca, DVD's are the new age thing.
I'm sorry but I don't know any editing software.

congrats on the wedding, sorry to hear it was so expensive [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] I would also recomend the premiere but if you are low on funds, go to a computer store and ask them for advice they may be able to show you some software on the cheap shelf that works just as good [img]smile.gif[/img]

That's great, Chewie! I know what you mean about the cost! We had to forgo the professional for the video but a friend who was in the wedding, set up his camera pretty much in one place at the ceremony, but we saw most of it and heard it all, so I'm pretty pleased.

It sounds like you have some fantastic memories with those dvd's!!! I hope you find a good edit program.

Jim and I are going to have our tape copied then put the original someplace safe and try to have the copy put on dvd, but we aren't sure where to go to have it done.

[ 06-25-2004, 10:37 AM: Message edited by: Cloudbringer ]

For best longevity copy to DVD, video tape doesn't last very long.

Animal, that's what we want to do, but we don't have the equipment to do it, so I want to make a copy of the tape that we can trot around to places to get a dvd made. Don't want to risk the only copy we have!

Thing is, my husband seems to feel we need to hook up two vcr's with some kind of digital connector? I haven't a clue, myself!

Chewie, if you find out how to make copies/edit etc, let us know!

Cloudy, My sister recently converted all of her home videos from VHS to DVD.

She used our Dad's computer which has a DVD-R/W drive and his video card allows you to run the normal A/V cable from the VCR to the PC. I forget which software she used but I think it was something like DVD Creator- it came bundled with the video card when my Dad purchased it.

If you dont have a PC with the right kind of video card or a DVD writer then I would inquire at places like camera/video shops to see if they provide such a service or know who does.

Makes me want to go out and watch are video. Since I have never watched it. ;)

But I am sure if we had it professional done I would watch it. We only got the professional pictures done which I am very pleased with.

If your video card had video capture ability, you can output your VCR to your vid card, and even if you don't have DVD, you can record it to VCD using Nero or a similiar program, which can be written to a regular CD-R and played in any DVD player.

Chewy and Animal, thanks for all the advise on converting my video! I'll have to look into what I have.. I'm sure I have Nero on the rw drive! Hooking things to the vcr is the only thing I'm not sure of- it's a new combo thing for vhs and dvd but doesn't record dvd's.