Does anyone know how to get NFL game clips on your pc to compile into a highlight video?

just trying to make some of my own NFL highlight tapes for youtube....and I am not sure where people get their videos...any help would be greatly appreciated...





~tiaDoes anyone know how to get NFL game clips on your pc to compile into a highlight video?
It depends on where you're going to be pulling your clips from. If you have DVDs you want to pull clips from, you'll need to install DVD-ripping and video converting programs. GordianKnot is a kind of all-in-one program that's good for this purpose. If you're pulling clips form VHS tapes, you'll need to install a video capture card or get a plug-in RCA/S-video-to-USB device. If you also want to get football footage directly from cable or an antenna, you probably want to make sure that the video capture card is built for TV channel tuning and recording.





After you tackle getting the footage into your computer, you have to make it into a format suitable for viewing on computers. YouTube has some converting built into the website to make sure all videos fit its perimeters, but you have to give them a compatible video to start with.





There are a LOT of options when it comes to making your own digital videos, but no matter what way you choose, there's people who've written about it online. Here's a list of resources I've found useful since I started working with video on my computer five years ago.





http://www.doom9.org/ and http://www.afterdawn.com/ - lots of guides and lots of software links, both free and commercial; a good place to learn both the basics and the fancier stuff to do with digital video editing





http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bi鈥?/a> - YouTube's guidelines regarding posting video; reading this can give a better idea of what YT can work with and what it can't





http://www.videolan.org/ - a versatile media player that can also function as a video capturing program; it's codec-free and extremely versatile - I highly recommend it





http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/ - home of TMPGEnc, one of the best programs for working with MPEG video; it's shareware, but a worthwhile investment for the editor with some experience





If these things are going over your head a little, you can also just look up some commonly-used terms on Wikipedia: codec, MPEG, Matroska, Ogg Vorbis, AVI, ripping, MP3, MP4, WAV, Windows Media, QuickTime, and RealMedia.





If you'd rather talk to a person face-to-face about this kind of thing, most mainstream electronic stores like Best Buy and Circuit City have salespeople that can help you find hardware and software to suit the entry-level video editing home computer user.





JUST REMEMBER: The rights to show whatever footage you plan to use belongs to other people who spent a lot of time and money bringing NFL games to your TV, so respect them as the copyright owners. Most major networks and corporations don't mind too much if fans make videos like the kind you describe, but don't start going overboard and posting entire games on YouTube. A good indicator of when a copyright owner isn't happy with the amount of material shown is to check up on videos you like on YouTube after a few weeks. If they've been taken down due to usage violations, it means that the people who own the material have requested it be removed the site. Doing this can help get a good idea of ';how much is too much'; regarding copyrighted footage.





Good luck getting your videos online!