Options for editing 5d2 video

Mark1 wrote in post #6855032
Dont know any software for you . But one tip I hear a lot on podcasts is to import it as 540 instead of 1080. The experts say the visual quality is barley degraded, but the file sizes are half size, and easier on the processor.

If you're watching on a computer monitor, you're likely to be a little closer than if you're watching a TV. So smaller sizes would be OK I think (personally I never watch stuff on youtube etc. full screen).

Stealthy Ninja wrote in post #6834918
DVD Studio Pro (comes with Final Cut Studio) won't let you burn blu-rays at the moment (stupid Apple).

That's because whatever the Apple God (Steve Jobs) says is holy - he claims Blu-Ray is "a bag of hurt," so Apple will never implement Blu-Ray until he changes his mind. He goes on to say, "we're waiting until things settle down, and waiting until Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace before we burden our customers with the cost of the licensing and the cost of the drives."

What he means is that he might actually feel bad about charging at least $1000 for an Blu-Ray drive on Macs a la $500 SuperDrives even when DVD R/W drives were beginning to drop far below $100 retail. Or $1500 for 8GB (4x2GB) of memory for Mac Pros when 2 sets of 2x2GB DDR2 6400 sells for less than $80 retail (not ECC, but still)

Played around with Adobe Premier CS4 and really like it. The problem is the money for the software is a bit expensive.

Will Adobe Premier Elements 7 (latest I believe) allow me to burn an HD file that will playback on my Blu-ray player?
Will it also allow me to compress the HD file to use a bit rate of 10MBps or so?

If so, that might be my route for around $100.

BrantG wrote in post #6858821
Played around with Adobe Premier CS4 and really like it. The problem is the money for the software is a bit expensive.

Will Adobe Premier Elements 7 (latest I believe) allow me to burn an HD file that will playback on my Blu-ray player?
Will it also allow me to compress the HD file to use a bit rate of 10MBps or so?

If so, that might be my route for around $100.

How large is that HD files? I have some HD files [If they are really HD] and i burnt them on CD/DVD and playing them on my normal DVD player, and when i read about some Blu-ray players i found all of them can read DVDs as well, so what is the problem?

Tareq wrote in post #6859986
How large is that HD files? I have some HD files [If they are really HD] and i burnt them on CD/DVD and playing them on my normal DVD player, and when i read about some Blu-ray players i found all of them can read DVDs as well, so what is the problem?

The question is just a hypothetical. There will be a couple of things I might want to do with these video files.
1.) I might want to host some HD clips on my website, so I'll want to compress them down so they aren't as large.
2.) I want to be able to burn them to Blu-ray at close to the highest bit rate. while most smaller clips will fit on a standard DVD, if I want to put longer clips or multiple clips together, I'll need a Blu-ray disc.

BrantG wrote in post #6860507
The question is just a hypothetical. There will be a couple of things I might want to do with these video files.
1.) I might want to host some HD clips on my website, so I'll want to compress them down so they aren't as large.
2.) I want to be able to burn them to Blu-ray at close to the highest bit rate. while most smaller clips will fit on a standard DVD, if I want to put longer clips or multiple clips together, I'll need a Blu-ray disc.

OK then, stay with PC and find cheap solutions

Tareq wrote in post #6860718
OK then, stay with PC and find cheap solutions

With blu-ray blanks at $20 a pop, good luck!

Have you people ever try the Canopus Edius? www.canopus.com

Video editing is all about Patience, Patience and Passion. It is unlike photo. it is not a minute or hour work. Have passion is not enought for it.

Anyway, ask yourself what will you going to do with video. Just a time of passion or going to do it professiona? How many time and money will you pay on it? When you know your answer, you don't wast time and money on the wrong way.

YONG JIA LIN wrote in post #6869286
Have you people ever try the Canopus Edius? www.canopus.com

Video editing is all about Patience, Patience and Passion. It is unlike photo. it is not a minute or hour work. Have passion is not enought for it.

Anyway, ask yourself what will you going to do with video. Just a time of passion or going to do it professiona? How many time and money will you pay on it? When you know your answer, you don't wast time and money on the wrong way.

Good advice. It literally takes days to edit videos (months even). I've worked on a DVD (adding subtitles and DVD authoring) that took (on and off) 12 months to finish.