Video Editing

[musicator]

Further to my question about Capturing with Ulead's VideStudio10 plus and Analogue video 8 tapes, which just will not work, I have now found that in addition to Microsoft's Window Movie Maker my Logitech Web Cam will also 'capture my tapes with no problem. Thisreally does seem like a problem peculiar to Ulead and I am still hoping for some help if anyone thinks that they know the answer. Thanks musicator3

[rojash]

Having looked at your previous post, I see that you say you can capture with moviemaker , but that is is not such a good editor - so why not just capture with moviemaker and edit the resulting avi with Ulead?

[musicator]

Thank you for your interest rojash but that was one of my first attepts to get around the problem, unfortunately WMM files are saved as .WMM files which the Ulead VideoStudio software will not recognise.
Maybe I've missed something but WMM does not appear to offer the facility to make AVI files.
musicator3

[musicator]

I'm afraid that I owe you an apology rojash, I've just had another look at WMM and you are quite right, there is a facility for saving 'captured' video as an AVI file and my VideoStudio will recognise it so I'm very sorry about that.
I had a quick look at WMM when the problem first arose and obviously never looked at all the facilities available.
Having said that I still have the original problem even though I can now work around it thanks to you but I would still like to know if there is an answer to that problem so that I will not feel that I've wasted my money and months of time trying to get it fixed so if anyone does know the answer I would still like to hear from them.
Thanks again rojash
musicator3

[rojash]

Using Zebuk's method would be acceptable, only if (a) ULead can edit mpeg format, and (b) you are prepared to accept the considerable degradation in quality due to the lossy compression used in the format.

[rojash]

Sorry to disagree, ZebUK, but the whole point of mpeg compression is that the compression is lossy - i.e. it discards information that can never be recovered - it doesn't matter how good the algorithm, it is DESIGNED to discard data. This is why professional editing is always performed on uncompressed formats, and why even amateur movie enthusiasts record using miniDV rather than hard disks or DVDs.

[musicator]

I have to say gentlemen that I am very impressed with all your comments and help, thank you very much.
I shall have to take my time to try what is being suggested but I am a little worried about what rojash says about 'Lossie' with MPEG.
If I was a little more computer literate as far as this sort of thing is concerned I would be able to add my 'twopennyworth' but I will try to see whether I can work with this suggestion but, again, if anyone can offer a reason why I'm having all these problems and better still maybe, offer a solution I would be very grateful.
Thanks to eveyone who has tried to help so far.
musicator3

[musicator]

ZebUK
You never mentioned where I could down load the
DVD abDecrypter from.
At the moment I'll try anything once!
Thanks
musicator3