Terry Smith gave an excellent presentation on video editing.

Terry's notes: Video Editing on a PC

1. Hardware Equipment
   1. A fast PC (Pentium 4, 3.0 GHZ recommended)
   2. Plenty of RAM (at least 512MB)
   3. Fast Hard Drive (ATAI00, 7200RPM) for video capture. or RAID Controller & Multiple drives.
   4. 17" Display & video card capable of 1024 x 768 (1280 x 1024 better).
   5. A video capture card for Analogue video input.
   6. Firewire port or USB 2 for Digital Video input & output. (Pref both).
   7. Good quality sound card & speakers.
   8. Quality patch cables to connect necessary equipment to PC. le Video Camera, VCR etc.
   9. CD burner or DVD burner.
   10. Optional TV monitor & suitable card.
2. Software
   1. Windows XP operating system.
   2. Video Editing software
      1. Windows Movie Maker.
      2. Pinnacle Systems Video Studio 8
      3. Intervideo WinProducer 3
      4. Ulead Video Studio
      5. Adobe Premier (6.5 or Pro)
      6. There are many others available
3. Burning Software
   1. Nero Burning Rom
   2. Roxio Easy CD creator
   3. Sonic
   4. Etc.
4. Other Software
   1. Players - Power DVD, Windows Media Player, MPlayer etc.
   2. Encoding, Transcoding, Ripping, Decrypting, Shrinking etc etc.
   3. Sound editing 1 mixing production etc.
   4. DVD authoring. (DVD Lab is very good) v. DVD menu design (DVD Menu Studio)
   5. Label & Jacket design & printing (Sure Thing CD Labeler Deluxe)
5. Optional extra hardware.
   1. Mpeg encoder
   2. Analogue to Digital converter.
   3. TV Tuner card or external tuner box.

ASB's notes from the evening, if you have anything to add please email me and I will update.
Very good site on video is http://www.doom9.org, also see http://dvd-hq.info/News.html
VirtualDub is very good.
tmpenc/tmpgenc http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_download.html and http://www.tmpgenc.com/
Conversion of various to MPEG2: http://www.videohelp.com/tmpgencdvd.htm
Good dvd format etc help page: http://www.videohelp.com/dvd
Xvid (MPE64?) gives best results.
Nero not bad. Rick has found the sonic software that comes with the LiteOn DVD drives is quite good, especially for the price :-).
HuffYUV lossless compression gets around 2:1.
Ritek make the best quality DVD media.
Inventa Systems - HDTV PC card. http://www.dvico.com/products_dvbt.html
Shuttle (tw)?
VegasVideo
Audio: SoundForge definitive package but expensive.
CD/DVD labels from BigW.
DVD players: mplayer, bsplayer.

(Pre meeting) VIDEO TOPICS

• Capture Cards - Leadtek Winfast TV 2000 XP - TV/FM, Teletext, PIP, CVBS & S-video, remote control, timeshift, de-interlace, snapshots, boss key
• AverTV GO - TV/FM, remote control, . . . .
• Capture Card Chipsets - Brooktree, Conexant (10 bit), . . . .
• Copy Protection - Macrovision, DSS, . . .
• Typical Resolutions -
  • MPEG-1: 352 x 288, 2000/3000/5000 Kbps, 25fps, Audio MPEG-1 layer-II 244 bps
  • MPEG-2: 768 x 576, 3000/4000/6000 Kbps, 25fps, Audio MPEG-1 layer-II 244 bps
  • VCD-PAL: 352 x 288, 1150 Kbps, 25fps, Audio MPEG-1 layer-II 244 bps
  • DVD-PAL: 720 x 576, 6000 Kbps, 25fps, Audio MPEG-1 layer-II 244 bps
  • Win VD: 320 x 240, 768 Kbps
  • AVI: 384 x 288
• Compression - iDCT (inverse discrete cosine transformation)
• Aspect Ratios - 3:4, 9:16
• File Formats - MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, VOB, DivX, MWV, MWA
• sound - PCM, MPEG-1, MP3 (for FM)
• Editors - Ulead Video Studio, Ulead DVD Movie Factory
• Players - PowerDVD, MPlayer, Windows Media Player (including spyware!)
• CD & DVD discs - DVD - R, DVD + R, DVD - RW, DVD + RW
• CD & DVD disc formats - VCD, SVCD, DVD, MPEG, AVI
• RW Drives - LiteON: direct burn,
• Drive Problems - still some difficulty with software &/ | hardware,
• DVD players - look out for h/w &/ | s/w problems
• Write Software - Nero, Sonic
• Video Problems - Audio/video sync, lock-ups, frame loss, . . . .
• Rippers - DVDx (source), DVD Shrink, DVD Decrypter, VCD Gear, #1 Video Converter