PowerProducer or PowerDirector?

Eric

Newbie Joined: Apr 19, 2007 01:17 Messages: 2 Offline

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Apr 19, 2007 01:25

Hi all,

I am new to editing of my DV tapes from my camcorder to my PC. The hope is to categorize all our events and make a DVD of each.

I was using PowerProducer and am able to capture each of the DV tapes as a separate file.........but, what I want to do is grab bits of "each" tape and put together into a file. What tool will allow me to put together a DVD with pieces off of different DV tapes? I do not see any kind of option to open another file at the same time and copy/past as necessary, in either PowerProducer or PowerDirector.

Many thanks.

Jets2011

Senior Contributor Location: Canada Joined: Sep 29, 2006 05:26 Messages: 760 Offline

Apr 19, 2007 23:41

Hi Eric,

It sounds like you want to to edit or extract clips of video from each of your DV tapes and then create one video with all of the clips. Is that right?

This is what PowerDirector does. You can import all our video from the DV tapes, and then use the trim function to extract the clips and place them in the timeline to create your final video.

PowerProducer is mainly a DVD authoring tool.

Hope that helped.

Dave

Eric

Newbie Joined: Apr 19, 2007 01:17 Messages: 2 Offline

Apr 20, 2007 00:04

Thank you Daveed. That is exactly the intent.

BradyB

Senior Member Location: Springfield, Illinois USA Joined: Feb 24, 2007 07:38 Messages: 153 Offline

Apr 27, 2007 07:30

What exactly is a " DVD authoring tool"?

I have been confused about this ever since I started learning video editing.

I currently use PowerDirector; this package seems to create DVD's. Is creating a DVD the same as authoring?

Thanks for your input.

Jets2011

Senior Contributor Location: Canada Joined: Sep 29, 2006 05:26 Messages: 760 Offline

Apr 27, 2007 10:49

Hi Brady,

What I meant by that is PowerDirector is mainly for editing and creating video. These videos can then be created as video files or burnt onto DVDs that can be played on a DVD player. However, the create DVD function (Create Disc) is not as robust as PowerProducer's...whose main function is to create DVDs.

You can create DVDs with PowerProducer that more resemble commercial DVDs. I.e. with multi-item menus (like when you find special features, language settings, etc. on a commercial DVD).

Hope that makes sense.

Shawn

Newbie Joined: Aug 04, 2006 16:08 Messages: 33 Offline

Apr 29, 2007 21:02

Hey,
Maybe I can ask something here about DVD authoring.

If I want to produce a couple of videos in PowerDirector and then use some kind of DVD authoring tool, how should I produce the clips in PD5? Should I produce them to VOB files or MPeg or AVI or what?

I want to be able to produce and then when I take the produced files (produced in PD5) and then use a DVD authoring program to turn them into a DVD with cool Special Features or multiple videos, etc, but I don't want to lose quality when I do it.