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Can anyone recommend a decent (and free *gulp) video editing program? I know WIN XP comes with one but it insists on reducing everything to crap quality - a 192MB file turned into a grainy 2.3mb mess...
I know I could Google but I'd rather see what others have to say...
:D Please!
I know I could Google but I'd rather see what others have to say...
:D Please!
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Thanks for the info, in the end I got that TMPEG think Adrian mentioned and just converted the files Movie Maker was used to create.
Not brilliant quality but compared to the neanderthal efforts of the other groups in the class my group's presentation looks b***dy excellent. Most of the rest we have seen are of the "bullets points in large font on white background" style.
Ours has:
*6 videos
*narration
*images
*graphs where parts fade to allow better comparison between countries
*custom slide background design themed to presentation
*slide transition effect where appropriate
I know it's a little showy but we have one of those lecturers (who assesses them) who is impressed by the merest bit of technical knowhow, and it's the final term of the final year, we need marks dammit!
Not brilliant quality but compared to the neanderthal efforts of the other groups in the class my group's presentation looks b***dy excellent. Most of the rest we have seen are of the "bullets points in large font on white background" style.
Ours has:
*6 videos
*narration
*images
*graphs where parts fade to allow better comparison between countries
*custom slide background design themed to presentation
*slide transition effect where appropriate
I know it's a little showy but we have one of those lecturers (who assesses them) who is impressed by the merest bit of technical knowhow, and it's the final term of the final year, we need marks dammit!
ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> Adobe Premiere
I still have no idea how to use this program! It's confusing.. D'you use it a lot? If so, is there any way to export/save a video *immediately* instead of having to wait for hours upon end for the video to export??
> Adobe Premiere
I still have no idea how to use this program! It's confusing.. D'you use it a lot? If so, is there any way to export/save a video *immediately* instead of having to wait for hours upon end for the video to export??
adrian wrote:
> then I use TMPGEnc to encode it to DVD format.
That program is excellent, ive been using it for about 1 day but i already love it.
> then I use TMPGEnc to encode it to DVD format.
That program is excellent, ive been using it for about 1 day but i already love it.
The ones I have used that have impressed me are :
Macromedia Director
Adobe Premiere
Both are reasonably high priced but very good. I'm not sure what the newest versions are, you'll have to have a look on the official sites.
Macromedia Director
Adobe Premiere
Both are reasonably high priced but very good. I'm not sure what the newest versions are, you'll have to have a look on the official sites.
You can very often find a copy of Pinnacle for free. Have 2 copys here for some odd reason and never used it, but heard it's ok.
Get a Mac.
Ask Timmargh, he'll know :P
Ask Timmargh, he'll know :P
You can do fairly clean video editing with VirtualDub(Mod).
Paradox: wrote:
> If you'd taken a level media mate you might know :-D
If I'd taken media I wouldn't be able to get on this course :P
> If you'd taken a level media mate you might know :-D
If I'd taken media I wouldn't be able to get on this course :P
Belldandy wrote:
> I know WIN XP comes with one but it insists on reducing everything to
> crap quality - a 192MB file turned into a grainy 2.3mb mess...
Its because your saving it as a crap file format. You can get Movie Maker 2 for XP from Microsoft for free off their website. I use Ulead Video Studio 7 to do my editing from my camcorder, then I use TMPGEnc to encode it to DVD format.
> I know WIN XP comes with one but it insists on reducing everything to
> crap quality - a 192MB file turned into a grainy 2.3mb mess...
Its because your saving it as a crap file format. You can get Movie Maker 2 for XP from Microsoft for free off their website. I use Ulead Video Studio 7 to do my editing from my camcorder, then I use TMPGEnc to encode it to DVD format.
Heh, I use iMovie which is on macs but I have a sneakin suspicion that like iTunes you can get it for the PC too, but I don't know where you would get a copy.
The windows software is the only free stuff that you're likely to get because unlike 'simple' freebie programs movie editing software isn't the sort of thing they tend to hand out for free. 'Pro' video editing programs cost at god few hundred quid but you might get them cheaper on Ebay.
Look out for the freebie stuff they pack to the front of the PC magazines, they often advertise "£150 of free software" etc, you get some good stuff there. I have got good burning software, guitar tutorials and antivirus programmes for nothing from those magazines. There might be special Audio-visual magazines (in fact I am certain there are) which are liklely to have this sort of stuff included to sell more copies.
Keep an eye out at the newsagents, that's your best bet.
The windows software is the only free stuff that you're likely to get because unlike 'simple' freebie programs movie editing software isn't the sort of thing they tend to hand out for free. 'Pro' video editing programs cost at god few hundred quid but you might get them cheaper on Ebay.
Look out for the freebie stuff they pack to the front of the PC magazines, they often advertise "£150 of free software" etc, you get some good stuff there. I have got good burning software, guitar tutorials and antivirus programmes for nothing from those magazines. There might be special Audio-visual magazines (in fact I am certain there are) which are liklely to have this sort of stuff included to sell more copies.
Keep an eye out at the newsagents, that's your best bet.
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