Paging the Digital Video knowalls.

I took some (bad) dv of Shoreham Air show. I want to import it into an
editing program and cut out the worst of the grass / shake / blurred
stuff [1]. What do you reccomend?

A Friend had a copy of a very expensive Adobe program and started to
import it into OnLocation. It was imported as one huge clip. I'm sure
there's a program that imports it and cuts it into smaller clips, i.e.
each time it's started and stopped when recording.

As I type I'm trying a few minutes of it using Windows own video tool,
but I have no idea what the results would be. Maybe it's good, maybe
not. What should I try out on a trial basis before I buy?

[1] OK, thats most of it gone then.

 

Windows Movie Maker works just fine.

 

I've just imported the first 13 minutes and it's broken it into 37
clips. Why didn't OnLocation do that? So much for expensive software
on a trial basis!

 

Perhaps it's an option you have to choose.

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But when I look at the folder it saved to, it's all one big file. Hmm,
options and more options I guess.

 

Certainly Premiere, Vegas and Scenalyzer Live will all create separate
files during capture, but they cost money. ScLive is purely a capture
program and a very good one, you can download a trial, but it seems daft
to pay for the full version for a single time job.

I'm suprised Movie Maker doesn't do it, but I've never really used that
for anything but a casual observation.

As for smoothing out the shakes, After Effects can do this on its own.
For Premiere you'd need a plug-in, something like Steady Move does a
reasonable job. I can't remember with Vegas.

Of course, any smoothing out will reduce quality as it will need to crop
to an area that is always visible.