Video editing question

[blown04gt]

A buddy got a HD video camera and it transfers to the computer with a file extension of .mts I have a Roxio editing program but it won't recognize the camera or the files saved to the computer. What kind of program do you guys recommend or are we doing something wrong? Something that's easy to use would be preferred because we don't really know what the hell we're doing :D

[yayo]

Try Sony Vegas. Very nice tool, simple to use, good results.

Why buy a nice HD Camcorder and use shitty Software.

[blown04gt]

Try Sony Vegas. Very nice tool, simple to use, good results.

Why buy a nice HD Camcorder and use shitty Software.

very good point. That looks like a decent program and 120 bucks ain't bad, especially considering how much the camera was.

[AmericanCobra]

very good point. That looks like a decent program and 120 bucks ain't bad, especially considering how much the camera was.
+1

[Ricer]

Sony Vegas 7 can edit HD video, however it is going to take a serious system to edit and render HD video. Just to give you an idea, I have an AMD socket AM2 X2 4200+ CPU, 2GB of DDR2-667 and an Asus M2N32 deluxe mobo and my system has trouble editing and rendering HD video and an even harder time playing it back. 720P stuff is a breeze but 1080P playback occasionally skips.

Good luck.

[blacksunshine]

OK, what he said. :dance:

[yayo]

Interesting. I have no problem with my system? I can edit HD videos with Vegas and view 1080P all day long. Specs are Intel P4 Intel 3GHZ - 2GB DDR2 - Asus someshit motherboard and an ATI Radeon PCI-X video card w/ 512.

[Ricer]

Interesting. I have no problem with my system? I can edit HD videos with Vegas and view 1080P all day long. Specs are Intel P4 Intel 3GHZ - 2GB DDR2 - Asus someshit motherboard and an ATI Radeon PCI-X video card w/ 512.

Well theres a difference between being able to edit HD content and edit HD content efficiently. To add to that, whatever encoding the rendered 1080p movie file is will also have a big impact on how it runs on your system. Obviously compressed HD content is going to run much smoother than uncompressed (.avi) content.

That said, i'm not sure why you even listed your video card? :confused:
Editing and rendering/compressing video is CPU intensive. Not GPU.