bstevenson
Standard Member
Hi,
Ive been making home movies for a decade now, mostly of the kids to send back to my family overseas. I'm basically looking for a more streamlined way of doing so with the highest possible quality of footage based on equipment I can afford.
Currently I am using a Canon HDV (yes still on those ancient tapes) which I download to the computer and create a DVD using Nero editing software.
Obviously the tapes and the DVD's are going the way of the Dodo.
I still use the tapes as I like to have a hard copy of the original footage. I have found though that the quality is greatly lost after transferring to the pc, editing with Nero and especially burning to and playing on DVD.
I am now thinking that using a camera with an sd card and saving raw footage to an external hard drive will suffice. Then use an editing program to create a professional style movie (ie. title page, menu page, music etc) to be downloaded onto a second hard drive and then stream through my pc to tv to watch. I could also then save said movie to a stick drive to send to my family overseas who could watch the same way.
Does this sound like the most technically efficient way of doing things, bearing in mind I want to keep raw footage, make a 'movie' and be able to send and watch the highest quality of footage possible? But these are just home movies of the family so I'm not looking to spend a fortune on semi pro kit.
The current camera is HD, Nero supports HD and BluRay and my TV is 4k. The laptop is a Lenovo i5 Intel on Windows 10.
Any ideas suggestions? Especially regarding equipment, new camera, video editing software etc or on a more effective process?
At the moment I know what I'm doing is outdated so looking to make it easier, more up to date and not lose to much quality from the original footage along the way.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Ive been making home movies for a decade now, mostly of the kids to send back to my family overseas. I'm basically looking for a more streamlined way of doing so with the highest possible quality of footage based on equipment I can afford.
Currently I am using a Canon HDV (yes still on those ancient tapes) which I download to the computer and create a DVD using Nero editing software.
Obviously the tapes and the DVD's are going the way of the Dodo.
I still use the tapes as I like to have a hard copy of the original footage. I have found though that the quality is greatly lost after transferring to the pc, editing with Nero and especially burning to and playing on DVD.
I am now thinking that using a camera with an sd card and saving raw footage to an external hard drive will suffice. Then use an editing program to create a professional style movie (ie. title page, menu page, music etc) to be downloaded onto a second hard drive and then stream through my pc to tv to watch. I could also then save said movie to a stick drive to send to my family overseas who could watch the same way.
Does this sound like the most technically efficient way of doing things, bearing in mind I want to keep raw footage, make a 'movie' and be able to send and watch the highest quality of footage possible? But these are just home movies of the family so I'm not looking to spend a fortune on semi pro kit.
The current camera is HD, Nero supports HD and BluRay and my TV is 4k. The laptop is a Lenovo i5 Intel on Windows 10.
Any ideas suggestions? Especially regarding equipment, new camera, video editing software etc or on a more effective process?
At the moment I know what I'm doing is outdated so looking to make it easier, more up to date and not lose to much quality from the original footage along the way.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks