video software

[wgoodf]

doodie

i am looking for some suggestions for video editing software that i could run on my 540c.

something that works with some basic tools - cut / join / titles / contrast - is pretty much all i need. the video is black and white too.

i need something to edit these daft video podcasts that i am going to try and put together for the retrochallenge.

?

 

[Unknown_K]

The most common apps are Adobe Premiere and Avid Videoshop for 68k.

 

[wgoodf]

any experience with these?

required ram, render times and so on?

just curious about that.

thanks for the heads up.

 

[Unknown_K]

I don't do complex editing yet, so I can't help you much there. Most I mess around with the hardware capture cards and capturing (Avid, Media 100, Videovision, etc) and editing software is part of the capture system package. Premiere and Adobe afteraffects seems to have been popular for editing back in the 68K days, Avid videoshop seems to have been a freeby Apple sold or gave away with their A/V kits. Radius Edit is also ok for simple stuff (V1.0 is 68K and I think 2.0 was PPC only)

I would recommend you find those packages on the local hotline server and then check out their user interfaces. After you decide whuch UI you like then hit the usual places to buy the software since the manuals come in handy.

 

[Unknown_K]

Oh, and render times without some hardware assist will be slow on a 68k, it all depends on how you edit and how much video you have.

 

[Bunsen]

ebay seller macmetex has a serial cable and Premiere plugin going cheap that lets you control external pro and semi pro analog video recorders from inside Premiere. You make your edit decision list in Premiere (with a lowfi/low bandwidth import) then hit the magic button and the VCR dumps your edited movie to another. Saves you the degradation of an analog-digi-analog transfer.

 

[Unknown_K]

I figured he had the video and just wanted to edit it old school on a 68K Mac.

 

[tomlee59]

ISTR running Videoshop 3 (from a MacAddict CD; googled it, and came up with Nov. 1998, if that helps some; I also recall seeing it on yet another MacAddict CD), but I do not remember what the minimum system requirements were.

Edit: It was also on the Nov. 1999 MacAddict CD. Still probably doesn't help you at all.

 

[wgoodf]

well i found premiere 4 and it seems to work well enough on my 540c - i guess we shall see how big an issue 12mb of ram is.

but as its only going to be dealing with 160x120 video in 16shades of grey i suppose it should cope.

the main thing is that it imports the video files that are made by my old webcam - so its all good to go for some rubbish video, being edited in a rubbish way.

hmmm.. does it have 'star wipe'

;-)