Far Cry

Bought it a couple days ago, and WOW!!! It lives up to its reviews. The opponents are smart and accurate. They certainly don’t mess around.

If this is what it’s like to be a Ranger/Seal, I don’t want to be one!! Definitely worth a buy if you like FPS.

Video Editing

Been busy doing a lot of this, so haven’t had much time for anything else.

Got my wedding video edited and burned onto DVD. Unfortunately, Studio didn’t want to burn a DVD properly. It is very nicely setup for designing menus right on the timeline, so can use edit points as chapters etc. The bad part is everytime I tried to burn a DVD, the audio and video were out of sync (even though the original was fine). Wasted a lot of time on this, until I finally decided it just wasn’t going to work.

Looked online in the User forums for Liquid Edition (also by Pinnacle) but it appears it has the same problem. I really like the idea of designing the menus and burning the DVD from one program for several reasons, but it appears Pinnacle can’t get it to work correctly. I think they are the only one that currently has this feature, and perhaps the reason is noone else could get it working properly, so they didn’t incorporate it.

My process now involves editing the video with Studio, then outputting the various portions as AVI files. I then use ULEAD’s DVD Movie Factory 3 to generate the DVD with the menus. Movie Factory may not be the best, but the price is right, it works well enough for my needs, and it allows for burning of AC-3 (stereo only) audio files to save space.

This process is very time consuming, but what can I do? It would have been nice if Studio did what it is supposed to, as it would have saved a render step, but…

I’ll have to do some experimentation and see what happens if I burn my output from Studio as mpg rather than avi. Perhaps an additional render step won’t be required. I’ll keep you posted.