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My lad has bought a Samsung F30 SD Camcorder. It produces nice quality videos in MP4 format. If you plug it into the TV then the playback if excellent so the actual recording is fine. HOWEVER, the camcorder is shipped with Cyberlink Mediashow software which is supposed to let you copy and edit the video clips. The trouble is that even when the aspect ratio is set correctly the software produces squashed videos and each clip is a separate title so there is a pause between each one and the movement is jerky. The software is obviously not great.

My lad then tried Ulead Videostudio 10 Plus but this can't handle the mp4 format. He then tried Serif Movieplus X3 which produced dvds in the correct aspect ratio but was still jerky and of poor quality.

Does anyone know how to produce dvds where clips can be edited together and the quality maintained without introducing jerkiness?? At the moment he takes nice clips but is frustrated that he can't edit and make dvds properly. All help gratefully received.
 
You sure its not the fault of the PC he's doing the editing on?

Video editors need absolutely loads of grunt.
 
He's working on a Dell Vostro 1000 with Sempron 3600 and 1 gig of ram running xp sp3. He has 13gb freespace hth
 
Not nearly enough imho.

An old CPU, no memory and a full HDD. ( you realise HDD's should be left at least 30% free?)

When I was doing editing from my camcorder I found I needed about 1GB of free space per minute of edit.

For now I'd just stick in 4GB of memory and a 500Gb HDD. (probably not much over £100 total).

Then you might have a chance.
 
Cheers Spike. I'll get him to try on mine. Ive got 2GB ram and 100gb free.......its a start. Anything else we need to do? Cheers guys much appreciated.
 
I would recommend convertxtodvd you can download the free version to try it - the only thing different about the paid for version and the free one is that the free version puts a "watermark" on the finished dvd.

You can easily drag and drop clips and it should just play them one after the other - you can also create menus etc
 

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