ductbert
Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:24 pm
I've been doing simple video editing (mostly putting together photo & video slideshows of our vacations) in VSDC for a few years, but feature, performance and speed limitations have led me to pick up DVR in the hopes I can make videos better and faster than I could in VSDC.
I watched the DVR crash course on YouTube and put together a sandbox project in which I perform transforms to zoom and pan on photos and apply transitions between clips in an attempt to duplicate some of what I'm used to doing in VSDC. I have a few basics down, but I still have some high-level questions. I'll precede each question with some of the musings that I have about VSDC vs DVR to set up the questions.
I'm aware that DVR uses a database to manage media and projects instead of strictly using the file system like VSDC. Interestingly, VSDC stored image files into the video project file (.vproj) but created links to video clips. Creating a folder structure was important for VSDC. Not so much for DVR. That leads to my first question.
Question 1: When you import media (image or video) into your media pool from, say a network drive (where I keep my vacation media files), does a physical copy get stored in the DVR database or some other location on the local drive? I don't want my NAS device to be my working storage for video, but I don't want to eat up my local disk drive with unnecessary copies of files.
In VSDC you could split a video project into Scenes. A scene object is like a sub-project in VSDC. It contains a distinct timeline. During the final rendering of the video you could combine the scenes sequentially into the final video or make a video file for each scene.
In DVR, I noticed you can have multiple timelines. I'm guessing that this is similar to a scene in VSDC. However, I couldn't figure out how to render (export) multiple timelines sequentially into one file on the Deliver page.
Question 2: What's the best way to render a single video file from a sequence of timelines? Is there a way to do this in the Deliver page, or is there some other way that I don't know about?
Thanks for your assistance.
I watched the DVR crash course on YouTube and put together a sandbox project in which I perform transforms to zoom and pan on photos and apply transitions between clips in an attempt to duplicate some of what I'm used to doing in VSDC. I have a few basics down, but I still have some high-level questions. I'll precede each question with some of the musings that I have about VSDC vs DVR to set up the questions.
I'm aware that DVR uses a database to manage media and projects instead of strictly using the file system like VSDC. Interestingly, VSDC stored image files into the video project file (.vproj) but created links to video clips. Creating a folder structure was important for VSDC. Not so much for DVR. That leads to my first question.
Question 1: When you import media (image or video) into your media pool from, say a network drive (where I keep my vacation media files), does a physical copy get stored in the DVR database or some other location on the local drive? I don't want my NAS device to be my working storage for video, but I don't want to eat up my local disk drive with unnecessary copies of files.
In VSDC you could split a video project into Scenes. A scene object is like a sub-project in VSDC. It contains a distinct timeline. During the final rendering of the video you could combine the scenes sequentially into the final video or make a video file for each scene.
In DVR, I noticed you can have multiple timelines. I'm guessing that this is similar to a scene in VSDC. However, I couldn't figure out how to render (export) multiple timelines sequentially into one file on the Deliver page.
Question 2: What's the best way to render a single video file from a sequence of timelines? Is there a way to do this in the Deliver page, or is there some other way that I don't know about?
Thanks for your assistance.