AboutAlessandro Machi Expertise Videotape editing, archiving, and videotape remastering. Experienced in live event cinematography plus interviews and b-Roll. Have provided Video Post Production Services for independent film & video productions that have been distributed both nationwide and worldwide. Have experience in both video and film. Not too familiar with Hd at the moment although I did operate a B-roll camera for an HD independent feature.
Regional Emmy Winner, also an Emmy Internship Scholarship Winner when I first finished college back in the mid 80's.
I Enjoy filmmaking as well and one day I may attempt a feature film in super-8mm although the film Dali, Dali, Dali seems to get longer with each passing month.
Experience 25 years of Film & Video Production & Editing Experience including low budget & quality control. I enjoy filming in Super-8.
Organizations Founded Action! Film and Video Production Club while in College.
Publications www.Opednews.com
Education/Credentials Four Year College Program, was one or two classes short of graduation.
Awards and Honors Regional Emmy Winner, 8 Time Vision Award Winner, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Internship Winner, Film Festival Winner for several different Super-8 Films,
Past/Present Clients Sony Pictures, Prudential Jon Douglas, In Defense of Animals, Humane Society of the United States, Ivy Gullickson
Expert: Alessandro Machi Date: 12/26/2007 Subject: video edit 101
Question I cant seem to get past the first step in making a movie from my video edit. I have Nero9, Roxio9 and Ulead video plus, but cant figure out how to take a DVD (i took my camcoder tape and transfered to a DVD via a DVD Recorder) and get it to my hard drive. Someone told me I had to convert it to .avi of something YouTUBE can upload. How do I put the DVD in a format or Hard Drive. The reason i mentioned hard Drive was because I noticed that when you upload to Youtube for instance, the indicator shows the MY VIDEOS in Documents. I want to get this DVD to be able to Video edit ... that is Video edit 101 I think, but I never see instructions on how to get the video from a DVD and only camcorders.
Answer Hi Bill, the philosophical idea behind a DVD is that it is a completed work that has in essence been "hardened" so that it can't be edited. If the work is copyrighted then I really can't advise that you edit it at all.
If the DVD is something given to you that involves you in some way, perhaps you worked on the project and want to use a small portion that involved your contribution for demonstration purposes, or it is your own family event or an event you produced, then you can probably take a bit more license in what you do with it. It's really a tricky area.
If I knew the person and the situation and deemed it was not copyright theft then I might be able to offer a suggestion or two, but to do it over the internet where people will abuse the knowledge is probably something I should not do.
Whenever you want to edit a project, ask the person providing the footage if they are comfortable giving you videotape "clips" of the portions you would like to re-edit. If they are comfortable with that then you have the best of both worlds as the videotape version will actually be of higher quality anyways.
Ironically, DV video may be too high quality to be giving out from those who are willing to work with you, which could lead back to....VHS, kind of shocking, no? But a VHS copy of footage that you may be given permission to edit means your version won't be confused with the actual released version because yours will have less resolution.
