Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Ductape on May 21, 2003, 03:42:48 PM
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Can anyone give me a clue or 2 what software works well for making video clips with music from film clips from Aces High?
I want to use something I can splice multiple clips together with a musical soundtrack and have it play back in Windows Media Player. I figure WMP is what I want since most people will probably have it.
I am new to this, and still gathering footage, but I have some killer soundtracks I want to ad some flight footage to. I feel my computer skills are up to the task, I just need a push in the right direction for an editing platform.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Bink is the best software.Its the same as used by ww2ol for all their films.Also many others. The programme is free and is called radtools. the web site is:
http://www.radgametools.com/default.htm
You are talking about avi compression software right?
DivX is also a well known and pretty good compression program
The best results ive had have all been with the bink player. It seems to hold quality of picture better when you compress again and again to acheive smaller file size.Very easy to use too, I picked it up as i went along and used the help a few times.really easy.Effects were better in bink too with it being an easy click on a box to change your films to grey scale for that black and white film look.Divx i found a pain to use for stuff like this.
if you want to see 2 films i made of AH try looking at my films:
http://combatarena.users.btopenworld.com/Films.html
for splicing of the film I found it much easier to edit the films in uncompressed format BEFORE i used a video compression to make them a reasonable size. However I was using over 10 gigs of my hardrive at one point! but it was fun and the results were good for my first try at this sort of thing.It was a lot of fun trying.I have made 10mb my limit for a film but even that is a bit big for most people.they can start in the hundreds of MB's before i compressed them over and over with Bink.
The programs i used for sound mixing and picture editing were all 30 day trial programs mostly. There are loads so try them out, find one you like.
i remember thes 2 were good:
Goldwave (http://www.goldwave.com/)
AVIedit (http://www.am-softhome.com/)
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Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Busy busy busy.
I am not so worried about compression, at least not yet. I have plenty of HD space. (80 gigs).
I just wanted to know what platform I needed to blend the music with clips of film, and then convert it to a format that will work in MicroSoft Media Player.
I will check out the info you gave me, and if need be, will post another time.
Thanks.
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