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Hi,

Whats the best and/or easiest way to splice and edit when converting VHS to DVD? I want to put together certain motion-scenes and stills from various films on the one DVD, with fades in between. The stills will probably have type over them. As a newbie, I need the best start at this stage. Do this on a VHS editor, on DVD(?), or on which computer program. Perhaps a combo. Cheers.

DaveyD

If you have XP try Windows Movie Maker. Its free from the Microsoft site and worth a try.

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Whats the best and/or easiest way to splice and edit when converting VHS to DVD? I want to put together certain motion-scenes and stills from various films on the one DVD, with fades in between. The stills will probably have type over them. As a newbie, I need the best start at this stage. Do this on a VHS editor, on DVD(?), or on which computer program. Perhaps a combo. Cheers.

It`s not quite as simple as you`d think...

first, you need to capture the said files, and to "edit" that file, best thing to use is VirtualDub and convert them to AVi.
Now you need something capable of doing your scene editing/koining etc. MGi Videowave is pretty easy to use, although I now use more advanced stuff meself, but to get up n running, MGi is fine.
It will add effect, tranisitions, fades, text etc for ya.

After all thats done and you now have a *new* AVi the way you want it, Ulead DVDMoviefactory 2 is probably the easiest for the DVD conversion, but most CD burning software now carries encoding capability (Roxio etc)

If all you wanna do is take some video and remove adverts, you can do that with Videowave alone, no need for Virtualdub. If it`s home movies to edit and join etc, use the above.

Jimbo : oÞ