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Daniel
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Date Posted: 09:19:40 07/14/03 Mon
In reply to:
LrdDimwit
's message, "Creating a music video" on 06:13:32 07/14/03 Mon
>I'm creating my own anime music videos (got a few
>ideas), and I was wondering. What software do you use
>to do your video editing, or what would you recommend?
> Ideally I'd prefer to use a program that I do NOT
>have to pirate (this means something free or
>relatively inexpensive).
I personally use Adobe Premire 6.0. I will probably be upgrading to "Premiere Pro" when it is released since it will somewhat integrate (the mind-boggling) After Effects (or at least some of the cool stuff). It's obviously fairly expensive to get a copy of Adobe Premiere (~$500.00). At the same time, with a student discount, you could get it for ~$300.00 or so which is reasonable.
However, since I understand the dilemna of $$$, I have a few cheaper solutions:
1)Ulead: I know a lot of people won't believe me when I say this, but my friend Hsien Lee (the famous "Kusoyaro Productions") used this for all of his videos until "Self-Titled" and "Sappy Self-Indulgence." Pretty amazing considering some of the great videos he's made without the "power" of Premiere (funnier that he had to learn Premiere a week before his first Iron Chef at AWA7..and won :-P).
The biggest drawback of this program is that you only have two video layers you can work with. That obviously means you can do complex 6 layer compositions or anything, but at the same time, if it's your first video, I'd imagine it's mostly straight cuts, cross-dissolves and opacity changes ("rubber bands").
2) (You're gonna laugh) Windows Movie Maker: This is pretty much free if you have a fairly recent Windows OS. Just like Ulead, WMM is a fairly weak program (even moreso).
At the same time, for a first video, I suggest learning things like concept, scene selection, adequate timing and transitioning. I am a firm believer that people can make a great video with those simple techniques. Hell, I'd say my best video has *maybe* one FX in it and it's won a few awards. FX should only be used when the song demands it and I find too many editors falling into the trap of adding "cool" FX for no reason. FX are there to *enhance* what is already there. An FX will not make-up for bad scene selection or lack of concept....oops I'm preaching sorry...
Anyway...WMM is capable of all things above (straight cuts, cross-dissolves, opacity changes, etc.) and should be adequate for more simple videos.
3) Magix Music Video Generator: This is the program my friend Jay Naling (Koopsikeva) made "Euphoria" with. If you don't know why that's significant, I strongly suggest you find a copy of this video. This is probably the "Video of the Year" (and the year is only half over) and yet he did not use the staple Adobe Premiere (goes to show it's not the program, rather the editor).
Magix costs about $50.00 and is also capable of all the things above and then some. It has pretty easy Mask Manipulation tools and also a few other things both Ulead and WMM don't have.
At the same time, I have never used it and can't really comment on how to do things. Hell, I've *only* used Premiere and thus am only proficient with it.
Now those are the three inexpensive choices I know of, but at the same time can't make a recommendation until I know what you're going to be doing. I'd understand if you don't wanna give specifics, but will your video entail many FX like Lens Flares, Radial Blurs, blurs in general, Zoom Blurs, more than 2 layers on at once, heavy masking, etc.? If so, I suggest somehow procuring a copy of Adobe Premiere or Avid Express (which I am unfamiliar with, but it is easily the most powerful editing software in the market...too bad almost no one knows how to use it).
So, depending on your answer, I would recommend Premiere or WMM. All depends on the complexity of what you want to do. At the same time, if it's Premiere, I can easily help you out since I am pretty proficient with it now (If only you attended the AMV Panel at ACen. I'm sure "lilgumba" will agree that it was helpful...or maybe I'm delusional).
One thing to also consider is quality. Currently there is a way to use DVD footage without any levels of compression and thus "lossless" editing (other than your final output). In the past, people would have to compress their DVD VOBs to a high quality MPEG-2 or something and edit in that, but as you may already know, that is one layer of compression...and you will be compressing again when you make your MPEG-1 or XviD.
The only problem is...I am unsure of WMM is capable of importing AVS scripts (the hack to get VOBs imported). I guess you can always try. There is a pretty good guide written by Ian (AbsoluteDestiny) and Justin (ErMaC) on the .org about how to convert VOBs to AVS and import them.
I hope this answers your question.
-Daniel ^_^
Ninja Gaijin Productions
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