I have been working on video and audio editing for the CIRadio. I am using a combination of Audacity, Windows Movie Maker, the GIMP and Fireworks. It is going well except that I have some video on VHS-C tapes (those little compact VHS tapes) and I cannot find the adapter which the tape fits in to so that it can be inserted into the VCR. The video camera will play the tapes back but I think that it is out of alignment or dirty, because the video is jumpy and there is a noise line at the bottom, even after adjustment of the tracking settings. (The tapes were recorded on a different camera than the one I am playing them back on).

It really bugs me to be using low-quality video for the capture, because VHS tapes degrade more and more after time...digital files on hard drive/CD/DVD do not. VHS tapes are also a bit obsolete.

I just started playing with Windows Movie Maker. For a free program that is bundled with the Windows XP OS, it is quite capable and can produce very nice results. On Linux mode I used a program called "KDENLive" (frontend to "Piave" but I had some problems with it and never messed with it again. The main bad thing about WMM though is that it almost forces you to use Windows Media format. I would rather do all of the editing with the video as an AVI and then convert it to MPEG-2 for archiving, not Windows Media format!

I wanted to use the song "Ryan Cabrera - On the Way Down" in the Downhill 2005 video, but I probably do not have the legal right to do so. This is most likely far from being considered "Fair Use".!

When it is all said and done, I will get the CIRadio up and running with:

Radioshow 12 Show and Videos
Downhill 2005 (camera on sled down over hill)
Downhill 2002
Radioshows 1-11
Old Videos from 2000-2001