Movie Making Tutorial - The Basics

[Spikes]

Is WWM more user friendly than Vegas Pro 9?

[1pLUs44]

Ok, let me get this straight, FRAPS records in AVI or some other codec that is accepted by WMM.....
How can I just take what I have from the saved camera shots and get them into WMM?

I want to use Power Director or whatever else it is I have, but I'm at the in-laws playing with this thing and they have Vista which I cannot install my PD on that I got last year with my DVD burner, so WMM it is for me, go figure.

BTW, thanks 1pLUs44, now I just have to convince the chief financial officer of the house to let me download and buy FRAPS.

I just put up basically how I do it. I find FRAPS easiest just because it has everything I need to get me started right there. 

The WMM will probably take just about anything.


As for Vegas Pro 9, I wouldn't know, WMM is really easy for the most part. Most of the stuff on it is common sense.

[lowZX14]

640x480 isn't bad for a video.  Remember, standard screen DVD's are rendered at 640x480 or 720x480 for widescreen.  Every AH movie I've done is been 720x480.  I prefer WMV 9 codec at either 90 or 93%.  Anything higher % wise is going to dramatically increase the file size of the movie without much quality gain.  Say a 5 min movie is 50mb at 90% and it would be probably close to 150mb at 97% quality.

Ok, glad you told me that, because I wasn't sure which codec or % to use.  Is the file size that much of an issue when you're posting on a site?

Thanks 1pLUs44, from what Fulmar told me, I'm going to have to hold off on FRAPS for a while and just cope with the fact that the quality won't be as good.

Look for my first video posting on Friday at the latest, or so I hope.

[Fulmar]

Is WWM more user friendly than Vegas Pro 9?

Very very much so.

WMM 9 is about as vanilla as they come with movie makers.  One you get a hold of how to do things in WMM 9 and do it fairly well is when I'd just ship to Vegas if you wanted to buy it.

[flatiron1]

how long does it take youtube to process a film?


ok forget that question.  it says "failed unable to convert video file"

what I did was copy parts of ah2 films with fraps and then combined them with moviemaker. But will not convert to youtube.

[flatiron1]

OK i hardly ever give up on something but just about there on this film making deal. Maybe its a vista issue. seems like everything seems easy for everyone else but vista seems to cause a lot of problems finding and doing stuff. Anyhow I have been able to get a movie made using fraps and moviemaker in combo just can't seem to get it where anyone else can see it. Tried youtube route and got "it says "failed unable to convert video file"".Tried the Vimeo route and can't seem to get to my video to upload it. Say for instance I have something saved on desktop but when I browse the desktop half the stuff on the desktop does not show up. I can't even find the moviemaker from the browser function. Any ideas will be appreciated.

[lowZX14]

I dunno cuz I used Vista to do mine at my in-laws house. 

[4deck]

This would make a good sticky or put into the trainers area writeups

[Ponyace]

Wow, this is great help, Plus,
One question, though, how do you get music in your videos. I have an Ipod account, but cant get songs from there to the video. Is there a way to do it, or should I just abandon it altogether?

[Fulmar]

Wow, this is great help, Plus,
One question, though, how do you get music in your videos. I have an Ipod account, but cant get songs from there to the video. Is there a way to do it, or should I just abandon it altogether?

It's either Windows Movie Maker doesn't support the .mp4 file format or Itunes DRM is preventing it, or both.

[Ponyace]

Ok, so how do I get music for the movie, then?

[1pLUs44]

All of my music is from CD's that I have, I get them from "My Music" in the My Documents folder.

I know there is a way you can convert the MP4 format to MP3 or something like that using a type of Window's converting thing. (That is either already on your computer or comes with WMM)

[fudgums]

i see your out of jail plus

[gldnbb]

Fraps download doesn't seem to work.  Hitting the Video Capture Hotkey,  It never goes 'red'  to indicate recording.  Just bounces from a  white  '1'  then back to yellow.

Also,  using Aces High Film Viewer to save to AVI  doesnt seem to want to play either...

Suggestions?

[Fulmar]

Fraps download doesn't seem to work.  Hitting the Video Capture Hotkey,  It never goes 'red'  to indicate recording.  Just bounces from a  white  '1'  then back to yellow.

Also,  using Aces High Film Viewer to save to AVI  doesnt seem to want to play either...

Suggestions?

What key do you have assigned to record?