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Title: help with editing video
Post by: 68DevilM on May 24, 2004, 04:29:29 PM: ive see some of the cool video's some of you guy's have put together expecially with your own music in it, and was just wondering if someone could help me with the in's and out's of doing something like that with my own films? cant seem to figure it out:(
Title: help with editing video
Post by: o0Stream140o on May 26, 2004, 11:20:01 AM: Devil Email me with your questions and I will try to help you out...

Stream14 (325th_ColStream@comcast.net)
Title: help with editing video
Post by: 68DevilM on May 27, 2004, 09:22:29 AM: ok but first i have to record some more video's, kinda erased them all after i could'nt figure out how to edit
Title: help with editing video
Post by: ALF on May 27, 2004, 05:46:30 PM: My Movies (http://www.combathanger.com/movies.html)

Airfest Movies (http://www.combathanger.com/airfest2004/airfest2004.html)

You need a good video editor...the best 'on the cheap' Ive found is Sony Screenblast.....friends dont let friends buy Pinnacle! SCreenblast is very affordable at $99 retail and on sale all the time for $69 or so, and offers all the editing you could ever want.

You will also need a sound editor, any piece of crap editor should suffice, all you are doing is editing some sound effects length and such. BTW if you didnt know, you'll be adding your sound in AFTER you are done editing. Sounds are put in at the final stage and are a post production thing (just like real movies), you are not going to use the 'real' as in 'as it happens' sounds. They are just not usable as you edit films together.

Music is a but sticky....I sometimes use music from my CDs...and for my personal use and such here its no big deal....my films arnt popular enough to warrent any attention....however I also use quite a bit of self generated music from soundforge....and thats 100% legal cause I paid for it to be used as such :D

In the end you should have 2-4 'views' of each scene, and cut them together to tell a story.
Title: help with editing video
Post by: o0Stream140o on May 27, 2004, 07:42:30 PM: Here are a couple of mine Devil

http://www.colstream.neptune.com
Title: help with editing video
Post by: 68DevilM on May 30, 2004, 11:52:57 AM: yeah thats what im talking about steam iwant to do something like that for my squad's home page, but i dont know where to go or where to get the editer's to do that?
Title: help with editing video
Post by: o0Stream140o on May 30, 2004, 05:40:15 PM: I put a new one up called Gunplay
Title: help with editing video
Post by: o0Stream140o on May 31, 2004, 12:32:33 AM: Quote
Originally posted by 68DevilM
yeah thats what im talking about steam iwant to do something like that for my squad's home page, but i dont know where to go or where to get the editer's to do that?

The ones like that are 40 to 50mb's in size... so if you want them like that I hope you have a lot of bandwidth with your site...

Do you have windows movie maker?
Title: help with editing video
Post by: 68DevilM on May 31, 2004, 12:40:46 AM: yes i was playing with it today but i cant figure out how to get my ah films to open in it
Title: help with editing video
Post by: o0Stream140o on May 31, 2004, 01:05:36 AM: Quote
Originally posted by 68DevilM
yes i was playing with it today but i cant figure out how to get my ah films to open in it

Okay Windows movie maker is a good place to start... After filming your flight... Open it with Film viewer, you want to save it as an Avi... then you need to determine how big you want it and the frames per sec you want it to record at... then it will ask you to save it in a codec... I go uncompressed... then after that is all done then go to movie maker and import it... then you can edit it to the way you want..

That is pretty much the very basics of it... the bigger the res size the length of the avi save is shorter... like 640 x 480 is like under a minute in length... if it is more it will tell you it can't open it in media player or your default avi viewer....

After that you can start getting in more advanced stuff...
Title: help with editing video
Post by: 68DevilM on May 31, 2004, 04:18:23 PM: ok after pissing around for a couple hours today with movie maker i finally made my first movie clip, but it looks like crap in media player, all fuzzy! anyway to improve this?

also how do i incorperate my music into it?

heres what i have so far

spit fury (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/357_1086038078_untitled.zip)
Title: help with editing video
Post by: 68DevilM on May 31, 2004, 04:38:19 PM: ohh i had my fps set to the lowest setting is that why its all fuzzie
Title: help with editing video
Post by: o0Stream140o on May 31, 2004, 05:20:27 PM: Graphic cards have a play in that too...
Title: help with editing video
Post by: 68DevilM on May 31, 2004, 09:24:52 PM: i have a desent video card i thought?

hmm

heres my spec's

emachines T2482
windows xp
amd athlon 2400+ 1.99 ghz
768mb ram
radeon 9200 128 mb ddr agp 8x/4x

what do ya think?
Title: help with editing video
Post by: o0Stream140o on May 31, 2004, 11:44:16 PM: Yeah that should be good... anything I think under 64mb GF4 would drag... You can mix music in with Windows movie maker just inport it like you did with the AVI
Title: help with editing video
Post by: 68DevilM on June 01, 2004, 01:10:53 AM: cool ill try it

thanx for all the help stream
Title: help with editing video
Post by: 68DevilM on June 01, 2004, 02:08:56 AM: ok got the audio part done just have to make the film longer to fit
the music, or can i fade it out when the movie's over? ill check it out.

just have one more question? how did you make your opening and closeing credits?