How Hard To Edit & Splice Parts of Various Episodes Together

[Dayton3]

For years, as a starter I've wanted to splice all the battles and starship weapons fire sequences from all the Star Trek series and movies together into one long "collected battle scenes" sequence.

I've also dreamed of cutting and pasting various parts of Trek episodes together to create my own episode.

I've tried this with VCRs but it doesn't work that well.

What kind of equipment does one need to do something like this and have it come out looking decent?

 

[Lord Garth]

It doesn't work with VCR's because you're going from first generation (the original) to second generation (the copy) and each copy looks progressively worse.

I assume you hit pause on the VCR you were recording on while you were either switching tapes or rewinding/fast-forwarding on the other VCR.

The trick is that you have to unpause three seconds before the moment you want to start recording. If you're starting a tape from the beginning you want to hit record, wait three seconds, and then that's when it starts.

If you're doing VCR-to-VCR.

If you don't want to do VCR-to-VCR then what you want to do is buy Pinnacle Studio which is a non-linear editing software that you hook up to your computer and then you hook up your VCR or DVD player so that Pinnacle captures what you play, it becomes a file, and then you can drag the file onto a timeline (you'll know what I'm talking about if you purchase the software and see it) then you can do editing down to a single frame, which represents 1/30 of a second.

Or you can purchase a DVD-R (DVD Recorder) to record what you play from a VCR but make sure you capture what you recorded to the hard-drive and then you can edit the footage on the DVD-R before burning it onto a disc and finalizing it.

The advantage of copying onto DVD instead of VCR is that you don't lose as much visual quality but you will still lose some no matter what because it's like taking a paper, crumpling it up, and then opening up the paper again. This is why it's good to only make copies from a master.

 

[FalTorPan]

Re: How Hard To Edit & Splice Parts of Various Episodes Toge

I would import the video footage from VHS to your computer. Many modern computers have inputs for this sort of thing.

Once you've done this, you can use an inexpensive video editor and go crazy!

 

[Dayton3]

Re: How Hard To Edit & Splice Parts of Various Episodes Toge

FalTorPan said:
I would import the video footage from VHS to your computer. Many modern computers have inputs for this sort of thing.

Once you've done this, you can use an inexpensive video editor and go crazy!

How much memory does it use up?

 

[doubleohfive]

Re: How Hard To Edit & Splice Parts of Various Episodes Toge

A lot.