Can I start with the $100 & under editing programs for this, or need to go all out?
When I did my short back in 2001, it was edited on AVID and I sat it with the editor. Times have changed. You can edit yourself. Awesome.
Now the problem is, in doing research I am not sure what I need. Two things are happening...
1. I am going to shoot two shorts over the next six months, one fully HD using a Canon D60 and the second a mix of mostly HD with some Super8 footage (that will be HD scanned, of course). First short is 5 minutes. Second short should be 15.
2. I want to have my original short film scanned/transferred into HD (either from 35mm blowup or 16mm ABC rolls) and will want to color correct, add grain, zoom in a few shots to alter framing. Doing that in a telecine bay is way too expensive. Gotta do it myself.
Can I get away with using Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD or Adobe Premiere Elements 9 for now? Or would I need the full suites that cost a grand or more to tackle HD with color correction, reframing, adding grain, etc? or is there a program I am not thinking of?
I'm a PC guy. I've got a Shuttle XPC Prima running Windows XP Pro with an Intel P3 2.83 GHz chip and 4g ram. My video card is an NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+.
When I did my short back in 2001, it was edited on AVID and I sat it with the editor. Times have changed. You can edit yourself. Awesome.
Now the problem is, in doing research I am not sure what I need. Two things are happening...
1. I am going to shoot two shorts over the next six months, one fully HD using a Canon D60 and the second a mix of mostly HD with some Super8 footage (that will be HD scanned, of course). First short is 5 minutes. Second short should be 15.
2. I want to have my original short film scanned/transferred into HD (either from 35mm blowup or 16mm ABC rolls) and will want to color correct, add grain, zoom in a few shots to alter framing. Doing that in a telecine bay is way too expensive. Gotta do it myself.
Can I get away with using Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD or Adobe Premiere Elements 9 for now? Or would I need the full suites that cost a grand or more to tackle HD with color correction, reframing, adding grain, etc? or is there a program I am not thinking of?
I'm a PC guy. I've got a Shuttle XPC Prima running Windows XP Pro with an Intel P3 2.83 GHz chip and 4g ram. My video card is an NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+.