Video editing

[plastick]

For a wedding, I have to make a video with music and a collaberation of pictures that "go" with the music.

I just wanted to ask if anyone knows of any decent and, preferably, free software that I can easily do this with.

I havn't checked out the windows xp movie maker yet... microsoft made it, so naturally I didn't think it would be any good.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Czar]

if you can get vegas video 4 then do so , very simple and yet very powerful

 

[John P]

$450 is a tad bit more than free.

Try looking here:

Previous thread, similar subject.

What equipment do you have, what are you showing the movie on? Do you need to make a VHS tape or DVD or can you just hook up a laptop to a projector?

 

[plastick]

Originally posted by: John P.
$450 is a tad bit more than free.

Try looking here:

Previous thread, similar subject.

What equipment do you have, what are you showing the movie on? Do you need to make a VHS tape or DVD or can you just hook up a laptop to a projector?

I have an AMD 800 with 256 SDRAM... my pc is pretty nice and fast. What I want to do is make a fairly good quality movie, and then when I'm all done editing, I'd like to convert it to SVCD or something that can be read by my dvd player. I dont have a dvd-burner or even a dvd-rom, just the old fasioned kind. lol.

 

[John P]

I haven't personally used any freeware to create a SVCD. You may want to mess with some of the software here:

Tools at DVDRHelp.com

The cheapest way to go that I know will work is to get Pinnacle Studio 8 for $29 after $50 MIR at CompUSA.

 

[plastick]

Well there's got to be some nice trial versions out there that let you save right?

 

[John P]

I'm finally taking a look at Windows Movie Maker in Win XP for the first time. It actually might do what you want it to. Let me mess with it for a bit......

 

[plastick]

Originally posted by: John P.
I'm finally taking a look at Windows Movie Maker in Win XP for the first time. It actually might do what you want it to. Let me mess with it for a bit......

*chuckles* ...keep me posted.

 

[John P]

Windows Movie Maker actually works nicely for what you want to do, the "ease in/out" effects are pretty cool for stills. It lets you add transitions and music in the timeline, similar to Pinnacle Studio. It won't burn to VCD/SVCD though.

You can save your movie as a DV-AVI on your hard drive though and use another program (like Nero) to burn that file to VCD.

It took me about 20 minutes to make a 5 minute video with about 60 pictures, transitions, video effects and burn it to VCD. Most of that time was spent encoding the DV-AVI file in Movie Maker.

VCD resolution will be just acceptable, but SVCD would look a lot nicer. Most (all?) trialware will have MPEG2/SVCD/DVD capabilities grayed out.

So, you'll probably need to cough up some bucks if you want to burn to SVCD.

Good luck.

 

[plastick]

sweet deal. I will use movie maker if I didn't delete it.. andI have nero.

Now that I think of it, I may still have some high quality dvd ripping sofware left on my pc.. so I can use that to convert to svcd... thanks a lot man.

 

[John P]

You can always reinstall Movie Maker from here.

Make sure you choose the DV-AVI option to save the file to in Movie Maker, that will give you your best resolution. It's pretty obvious since all the other options are stinking *.wmv files (if I remember correctly).

Let me know how it turns out.

 

[plastick]

hehe... thanks.