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nba185
Since theres a photoshop thread and a flash help thread, this thread might become of some use.

Movie Editing Softwares:
Final Cut
Premiere pro
Avid
ULead
Sony Vegas

VFX softwares:
After Effects
Maya
3D studio

Ask a question and you'll be heard.
mOrgiex3
hey, if anyone can help me.. please read this.

the videos that come off the camera upload to the computer as a .mov file. i downloaded many programs, hoping for a program that will support the .mov file without converting it to an .avi or a .wmv file. i found one program that supported the .mov but it came out VERY blurry and you couldnt even distinguish who was who once imported into the program from my computer.

does anyone know what program can help me?
nba185
oh thats easy. try the program called 'riverpast'
it can be downloaded off their website.
mOrgiex3
omg thank you!

which one do i download for the movie editing?

there are a LOT of downloads biggrin.gif

your a life saver ahhhh.

ugh another question..

i need to brighten up a file.

no program allow me to brighten it up without it putting FREE TRIAL, PLEASE REGISTER across the center of the movie when its done being made.

:[ what can i use without it coming up like that?
nba185
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which one do i download for the movie editing?

there are a LOT of downloads

your a life saver ahhhh.

ugh another question..

i need to brighten up a file.

no program allow me to brighten it up without it putting FREE TRIAL, PLEASE REGISTER across the center of the movie when its done being made.

:[ what can i use without it coming up like that?


for those movie editing software you can try the trial.
trial for premiere pro 2 should be full, isnt it?

do you mean like make the video brighter/darker?
for free ones i think WMM/imovie works but it doesnt give you the choice of how bright or how dark you want it to be.

For pictures, use photoshop.

frekle18
We need to unpin the Post Your Flash Work thread and pin this
Kristandex
Great thread. Pinning.
Marvin Nash
Hey there,

I have one question...

I need to do a presentation about Vietnam War and I have a lot of short clips (.avi) extracted from different movies about it...

I want to put some text before each clip, and I tried Windows Movie Maker, but when I insert a video to the library, WMM makes a lot of mini mini clips and when I pull them to the track suddenly the window gets closed.

I donīt want to fix it, I just need to know one easy, small and practical soft to make this, put .avi files and text and make a mpg or avi, whatever..

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance,

MN
nba185
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I need to do a presentation about Vietnam War and I have a lot of short clips (.avi) extracted from different movies about it...

I want to put some text before each clip, and I tried Windows Movie Maker, but when I insert a video to the library, WMM makes a lot of mini mini clips and when I pull them to the track suddenly the window gets closed.

I donīt want to fix it, I just need to know one easy, small and practical soft to make this, put .avi files and text and make a mpg or avi, whatever..

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance,

MN


Close all your other programs except WMM and try it again.
If you just want text before the video, WMM will get the job done easily.
try the trial for premiere pro from adobe.com or other editing software trials.

For editing software trials:
import your videos and drag them to the timeline. add the title by placing it on top of the video and adjust the video after/with/before the text.
You are able to adjust the fonts, text style, place, and length.
Not applicable to WMM.

edit: thanks kristin
rollerpig
I know this is not a question, but it's a video effects program.

I'm not sure if anyone has heard of it before, but I resently stumbled across a video effects program named particleIllusion 3.0. With it, I was able to duplicate some of the effects you see in the smosh videos, except for maybe camera shake. However, it can be slow sometimes and takes away the audio, so it's only good if you have only music in the background or can separate the sound file from the video.
nba185
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I'm not sure if anyone has heard of it before, but I resently stumbled across a video effects program named particleIllusion 3.0. With it, I was able to duplicate some of the effects you see in the smosh videos, except for maybe camera shake. However, it can be slow sometimes and takes away the audio, so it's only good if you have only music in the background or can separate the sound file from the video.


You can do camera shake with AE.
but i have no idea what your question is
rollerpig
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I'm not sure if anyone has heard of it before, but I resently stumbled across a video effects program named particleIllusion 3.0. With it, I was able to duplicate some of the effects you see in the smosh videos, except for maybe camera shake. However, it can be slow sometimes and takes away the audio, so it's only good if you have only music in the background or can separate the sound file from the video.


You can do camera shake with AE.
but i have no idea what your question is

I know, I said it wasn't a question, I was just pointing out another video editing program I found.

But I guess I have one now. Is AE free, or cheap? How do you do camera shake with it? And can you make the entire screen flash with it as well?
Starzz37
I uploaded a video to my computer and it's a .mov file. I want get it into Windows Media Player but it doesn't work, is there a program to convert the .mov file to a file that Windows Media Player supports?
nba185
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I know, I said it wasn't a question, I was just pointing out another video editing program I found.

But I guess I have one now. Is AE free, or cheap? How do you do camera shake with it? And can you make the entire screen flash with it as well?


Yes you can. AE can do EVERYTHING.. well almost.
AE is not free. original one costs like US900+

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I uploaded a video to my computer and it's a .mov file. I want get it into Windows Media Player but it doesn't work, is there a program to convert the .mov file to a file that Windows Media Player supports?


river past.
Starzz37
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I know, I said it wasn't a question, I was just pointing out another video editing program I found.

But I guess I have one now. Is AE free, or cheap? How do you do camera shake with it? And can you make the entire screen flash with it as well?


Yes you can. AE can do EVERYTHING.. well almost.
AE is not free. original one costs like US900+

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I uploaded a video to my computer and it's a .mov file. I want get it into Windows Media Player but it doesn't work, is there a program to convert the .mov file to a file that Windows Media Player supports?


river past.



I need a free one that doesn't cut the videos short.
nba185
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I need a free one that doesn't cut the videos short.


You can download riverpast (trial version) or download it from bitorrent. they don't cut your videos short unless u want them to cut it
allhailgaara
So AE is 900 dollars?

Does Premier have any decent effects? For example, cloning? Anything better than WMM. Also, how much is it, and is it worth the money?

One more thing for 'ya, I'm using the Vegas trial, but when I try and import videos straight from my camera, I can only hear the sound. I can't view the video. I'm guessing this means my video format isn't supported in Vegas? I have to save each individual clip to WMM as a movie file, and then open it in Vegas. It's a pain in the arse.
nba185
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So AE is 900 dollars?

Does Premier have any decent effects? For example, cloning? Anything better than WMM. Also, how much is it, and is it worth the money?

One more thing for 'ya, I'm using the Vegas trial, but when I try and import videos straight from my camera, I can only hear the sound. I can't view the video. I'm guessing this means my video format isn't supported in Vegas? I have to save each individual clip to WMM as a movie file, and then open it in Vegas. It's a pain in the arse.


adobe.com for prices.
if you want effects it has definitely got to be AE.
If your a professional its worth the money but if your only using it for fun, get it from your friends or download it.

What camcorder are you using?? Sony vegas use to work for me but it doesn't work on vista.
someguy
I need some video FX plugins for iMovie. Do you know where I can get some open source downloads for gun effects? (barrel flashes, maybe even explosions, etc...)

Thanks.
nba185
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I need some video FX plugins for iMovie. Do you know where I can get some open source downloads for gun effects? (barrel flashes, maybe even explosions, etc...)

Thanks.


quite a number of free ones online. but are they supported by iMovie?
someguy
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I need some video FX plugins for iMovie. Do you know where I can get some open source downloads for gun effects? (barrel flashes, maybe even explosions, etc...)

Thanks.


quite a number of free ones online. but are they supported by iMovie?


This is what i wish to find out.
nba185
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This is what i wish to find out.


They don't.
kith
What video proggram would u suggest for a me? i would use something easy cuz im n00b on Softwares
nba185
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What video proggram would u suggest for a me? i would use something easy cuz im n00b on Softwares


for what..? editing??

Sony Vegas
Final Cut pro
Adobe premiere pro CS 3

Depends on what you are looking for
moreadventurous
I know this may be a silly question, but is there anyway to get a demo/trial of final cut pro, i know its a REALLY expensive program.. i really want to start using but theres no way i can cough up that type of money.. of any other free editing programs for apple computers? i have imovie HD, and i am looking for something more high tech.. THANKS again. any help is appreciated.
Hendo
I've taken a look but I can't find anything. I'm guessing due to the price they won't release a trial version(to stop people trying to get it for free). Either that or Apple are just bastards.
moreadventurous
Yeah, my friend has final cut pro, but hes a bastard and we arn't friends anymore, and he won't burn me a copy of his.. gr. but thanks for looking anyway haha.
nba185
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I know this may be a silly question, but is there anyway to get a demo/trial of final cut pro, i know its a REALLY expensive program.. i really want to start using but theres no way i can cough up that type of money.. of any other free editing programs for apple computers? i have imovie HD, and i am looking for something more high tech.. THANKS again. any help is appreciated.


no trial.

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Either that or Apple are just bastards.


most who use the program can afford it so.. yeah.

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Yeah, my friend has final cut pro, but hes a bastard and we arn't friends anymore, and he won't burn me a copy of his.. gr. but thanks for looking anyway haha.

of course! he paid for it but you are wanting a free copy, that is what upset him
D-Generation X
hey,
i've got a problem with putting a video i made with sony vegas. it is too damn big. what should i do to make it smaller?
nba185
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hey,
i've got a problem with putting a video i made with sony vegas. it is too damn big. what should i do to make it smaller?


reduce it by converting or exporting in a smaller size.
muncle
Hey everyone! Just started watching smosh videos and I got to say, they're pretty good.

I was wondering, I'm using Final Cut for the Mac and in the episode "Male Model" there's a part where Ian is talking to a picture of Fabio...How do I achieve that "talking picture" effect??

I've been searching on google for the last 2 hours trying to find some kind of tutorial!!
Slapdash-videos-Webdesign
what they did <what i would have done> is using a still photo of him holding Fabio!!!! (!!!! necessary) they took the pic of him holding fabio and put a bright Green oval in the center (over his mouth) then they used fillm they captured of ians mouth as a green screen cut out thing. so now they use the still photo as a layer and video of ian as another blend the two with a Chroma keyer (green screen effect) and have the appearance of fabio talking to ian.
now i know that made no sense but i am bad at explaining things!
nba185
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I was wondering, I'm using Final Cut for the Mac and in the episode "Male Model" there's a part where Ian is talking to a picture of Fabio...How do I achieve that "talking picture" effect??


thats animation. But theres actually a program that allows you to do that.
Can't remember what it is though.

stargurl214
I want something for special affects so i can like make doubles of a person or like sumthin cool but i dont know what to get and i need sumthin for editing
nba185
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I want something for special affects so i can like make doubles of a person or like sumthin cool but i dont know what to get and i need sumthin for editing


easy. you can do that in after effects or final cut pro.
Hendo
In Sony Vegas, is there a way you can import images at their orginal size? Vegas always resizes it, and the pan/crop doesn't work, because that just zooms into a section or crops it off.
Anybody know a way around this?

Thanks
nba185
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In Sony Vegas, is there a way you can import images at their orginal size? Vegas always resizes it, and the pan/crop doesn't work, because that just zooms into a section or crops it off.
Anybody know a way around this?

Thanks


did you mean the event pan/crop tool?? Doesn't work for me as well.
I think you have to edit it in photoshop and bring it back to sony vegas.
Hendo
Yeh even after making the images smaller or bigger or whatever, Vegas just resizes them, I've tried different file types, but no luck. The event pan/crop doesn't actually do anything, unfortunatly. It's really annoying!
nba185
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Yeh even after making the images smaller or bigger or whatever, Vegas just resizes them, I've tried different file types, but no luck. The event pan/crop doesn't actually do anything, unfortunatly. It's really annoying!


Here's what i found:

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Most likely "768" is a result of assuming that the video frame is actually, literally 4:3. It's not.

By convention, most older NLE's manuals calculated the corrected frame size as if the frame were really a 4:3 image. The math was wrong but it didn't usually matter because the programs didn't do the conversion for you. They were merely saying that you could use scans or camera images that were 768x576 and then before you imported it you'd have to manually convert it to your PAL frame size.

By convention, subsequent systems usually just copied the information from the older literature. Technically, the numbers are wrong, but if everyone does it wrong in exactly the same way it then you can still move media between programs easily.

For better or worse, Vegas does the conversion from square to non-square for you. Because it was written by audio guys, they actually did the math on the video sample rates and came up with different numbers. Vegas' math is right, but sometimes being right isn't as useful as going along with everyone else's wrong answer. So you might have a compositing program that insists that you need to use 768x576 for your output while Vegas might want something else. You might need to do some adjusting to get this output to work right in Vegas.

Vegas is a resampling editor which allows it to use all sorts of media on the same timeline. It was pretty revolutionary for the first several years of Vegas' life and Vegas still does it better than other systems but most other systems have closed the gap.

Vegas resamples everything to fit it to your project, including still images, which it assumes are using a 1:1 sample ratio (aka Square Pixels). The problem with this is that, to be consistant, Vegas also has to export stills that are corrected back to square pixels. This creates problems for other software.

The best thing that could happen would be for everyone to settle on a standardized PAR tag inside image files, because otherwise there's no way for software to know just how an image is supposed to be displayed.


another solution is to go to help > search for "pan crop" and follow the instructions there:

Use the controls in the Source heading on the left side of the Event Pan/Crop dialog to indicate how your video will be stretched or cropped.


Maintain aspect ratio
Choose Yes from the drop-down list (or select the button) to prevent distortion of the source media file.

When you choose No, the source media's ratio of height to width is not preserved when video is stretched in the output frame.

Stretch to fill frame
Choose Yes from the drop-down list if you want the media in the selection box to fill the output frame.

When you choose No, the media retains its original size, and the area outside the selection box is cropped.




another alternative is to use actions in Photoshop to speed up the process and use Match aspect ratio.
Also, PNG is the format Vegas seems to like best especially if you have any alpha channels.
THEMCMAN
The thing in Male Model isn't animation, they cropped a video of someone talking into a circle and placed in on the screen shot of Ian holding the picture of Fabio.
nba185
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The thing in Male Model isn't animation, they cropped a video of someone talking into a circle and placed in on the screen shot of Ian holding the picture of Fabio.


There are many ways to do that. you can animate it, do what anthony did, or you can just use a program that helps you do that.
quenius
i don't know if I'm posting this in the right place, but does anyone know if it is at all possible to upload video onto youtube from a mac?
Hendo
Do you mean like straight from the built in webcam? Or upload a video file?
bronsonwess
I need help getting my pinnacle studio 11 video project audio onto audacity. Plz help. I can't get it off of my camera and onto audacity
nba185
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I need help getting my pinnacle studio 11 video project audio onto audacity. Plz help. I can't get it off of my camera and onto audacity


OMG.
AUDACITY IS FOR AUDIO NOT VIDEO
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE,
please use imovie or windows movie maker.


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i don't know if I'm posting this in the right place, but does anyone know if it is at all possible to upload video onto youtube from a mac?


edit them in imovie and save it to .mov
then upload it to youtube.
quenius
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I need help getting my pinnacle studio 11 video project audio onto audacity. Plz help. I can't get it off of my camera and onto audacity


OMG.
AUDACITY IS FOR AUDIO NOT VIDEO
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE,
please use imovie or windows movie maker.


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i don't know if I'm posting this in the right place, but does anyone know if it is at all possible to upload video onto youtube from a mac?


edit them in imovie and save it to .mov
then upload it to youtube.


um, would you mind telling me how to do that?
bronsonwess
[quote name='nba185' date='Nov. 4, 2007. 09:16 PM' post='661811']
[quote]I need help getting my pinnacle studio 11 video project audio onto audacity. Plz help. I can't get it off of my camera and onto audacity[/quote]

OMG.
AUDACITY IS FOR AUDIO NOT VIDEO
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE,
please use imovie or windows movie maker.


I know. I'm trying to edit the audio on audacity. and the video on pinnacle
Brit
Okay so I just posted a video on youtube for the first time. I made it in final cut, and then I had to export it to QuickTime for youtube...the music got horribly compressed.... any suggestions on how to fix that. I am new to all this wink.gif
nba185
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Okay so I just posted a video on youtube for the first time. I made it in final cut, and then I had to export it to QuickTime for youtube...the music got horribly compressed.... any suggestions on how to fix that. I am new to all this


Don't export it. just save the movie.

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I know. I'm trying to edit the audio on audacity. and the video on pinnacle


oh okay. sry.
you can extract the audio from your video and edit them in audacity.
Hendo
Does anybody use final cut express? And if so, would you recommend it?
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