This is going to sound very cheeky!
Is it possible to edit a video using more than one video editing package. I have a partly complete video on which I wish to straighten some pictures/scenes. My other software doesn't offer this facility, but I have used it successfully on a previous project (using Magix).
Will editing with more than one lot of video editing problem cause any problems? Apart from annoying the Magix powers-that-be!
Hi,
LOL cheeky, no! Realistic, yes! I had to laugh at your post because many people think that they MUST edit video in only one application. I actually use 3 editors on a regular basis. They are Movie Edit Pro 18, Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 ultimate, and Cyberlink Power Director 11.
My final editor is MEP but I use the other two to create the effects that MEP cannot do easily. For example, I use the Corel product to create travel route animation (because my version has Rotopen) and to create titles (because my version includes Boris Graffiti). I use it to create the portions that I want, export the files as video files and bring them in to Movie Edit Pro to complete my project. I also really like the Corel product to do screen captures and to import analog video from external USB devices.
I use Movie Edit Pro as my primary editor because it is more stable than the other two and I really like the work flow much better than either of the others, or any of the Adobe products.
Don't worry about annoying the "Magix Powers that Be". just use whatever you can to create the best videos possible. If that means using 3, 4, 5, or 10 editors just do it.
What a great post, you and I are exactly on the same page. Use whatever you need to get the job done!!
George
George,
Many thanks for a very useful answer.
I have tried a couple of ways to achieve what I want: I used the name of the project that I have started work on: C:\ Users \ John \ Documents \Pinnacle Studio \ My Projects \ Flower Festival - the DVD edit. It didn't bring it up into Magix even though I was working in that editing programme. I tried substituting . . . Magix \ Movie Edit Pro MX Plus . . . for Pinnacle Studio - but this just resulted in an empty folder. Did I wish to delete it?
My reason for posing the question was a message that flashed up on the screen at the point where you select a project (new or existing): "You cannot run multiple MAGIX prorammes with integrated video recorder functionality at the same time. (This may lead tio problems with the timer recording)." I didn't think I was doing that! So I thought I had better get an expert answer from a fellow user.
Your answer suggests that I should be able to call the Pinnacle Studio project into Magix and make the adjustments I want and then go back to Pinnacle. There's something I'm not doing.
Perhaps the key to my problem is your comment: "I use it to create the portions that I want, export the files as video files and bring them in to Movie Edit Pro to complete my project." Only doing it in reverse - that is bringing the video files from Magix into Pinnacle Studio. Is exporting the video files an easy task? That is, is it obvious what to select at the Save It stage. (Perhaps it will be when I have the programme up on my screen!)
I was, of course, only joking when I mentioned annoying the Magix Powers-that-be. I'm using their product as well as Pinnacle's, aren't I?
Thanks again.
Hi Dabber,
Actually no you won't be able to open your pinnacle studio project with MEP. The way I do it is when I have done what I needed to do in the other application, I expor that component of my project as a video file (I use MP4 quite a bit but the purists tend to use AVI or MPEG 2). Then I drag my video into MEP to continue with my final edits.
I only use the other applications for their unique features and do most of the work in MEP, so you seem to be wanting to do pretty much the opposite from what I do. Clearly work flow is a personal preferance and it seems to me that while I prefer the MEP workflow, you prefer Pinnacle.
Exporting a video file to be used in another application is pretty straight forward. To save you some time in trying to figure it out yourself, this youtube video will walk you through the steps.
Good Luck,
George
Thanks, George. I'm beginning to get the hang of what I can, and cannot, do. The You Tube clip about exporting the video scenes was helpful.
I had wrongly assumed that the video project would be available to either video editing product where I could edit it (with the picture straightening device in the current case) and then save it back to the project "home". But I think I will cope.
Actually, is it me, or is it the case that if I try to straighten a scene that is part of a video sequence all subsequent scenes are "corrected" in the same way and by the same amount whether they need it or not? If that is the case it makes sense to "correct" video scenes separately and then call them into the video project like any other scene from the video "library" of imported scenes.
An alternative would be to put the first subsequent scene back to the way it was (perfect!) and let all the other scenes revert as well . . . Does that make sense?