I made my first video last night. Woo. Kind of a first stab at integrating the music I've been writing with the animated .GIFs I've been drawing. First, I downloaded a demo version of a simple video editing software. I imported an .mp3 of a tune I wrote and then started adding some found .GIFs from my "collection," since that's the first folder that opened (*%&%! Windows XP always defaults to that lame "My Pictures"). The video editor is nice in that it automatically resizes all the .GIFs to the size of the first and can make them faster and slower, but not so nice because there is no way to sync a specific sequence of musical notes in the audio to the run time of the .GIFs. I put together my file as best I could--a parade of stupid cartoon characters dancing, completely out of step with the music--and then saved it as a Quicktime .mov file, just to see what kind of file size we're talking about. It took about 10-15 minutes to save and the 2.5 minute long video is (ouch) 77 MB. I just used the preset compression options, though. Also, the finished masterpiece has the words "Trial Version--Please Register" pasted in the middle of the screen the entire run time, in green letters. I like that, though--gives it a certain shabby authenticity. Any recommendations of a Windows-based video editor that allows syncing of audio and images and that can save output as multiple file types (particularly .mov) would be greatly appreciated.
post it! I wanna see me some cartoons gettin' down.
tom, this sounds like a hit! you might look at the compression options to see if there's are choices like "web" or "email". you ought to be able to get a 2.5 minute video down to just a couple megs.
my point being that we'd all like to see the masterpiece!
it sounds like its time for you to go macintosh and get to know imovie for starters. macs are the king of video editing with "final cut pro" being the state of the art.
Pinnacle makes some PC oriented tools. I don't know much about them, but they seem to sell a lot. Anon is right. Final Cut Pro is the gold standard.
Mac for video is the real deal. FCP is the #1 vid edit app, & OSX ships with a really good video edit app called iMovie. Also, there is one awesome video fx app that exist in a Mac-only format called Studio Artist 3.0 by Synthetik (synthetik.com). It is so incredibly amazing and cool that it alone justifies a platform change. I wave my pirate flag right about now.
hey Tom, in case you are suspicious, I did not start off the "you should get a mac" thread by posting as anonymous. But I would've if I'd thought of it!
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I made my first video last night. Woo. Kind of a first stab at integrating the music I've been writing with the animated .GIFs I've been drawing. First, I downloaded a demo version of a simple video editing software. I imported an .mp3 of a tune I wrote and then started adding some found .GIFs from my "collection," since that's the first folder that opened (*%&%! Windows XP always defaults to that lame "My Pictures"). The video editor is nice in that it automatically resizes all the .GIFs to the size of the first and can make them faster and slower, but not so nice because there is no way to sync a specific sequence of musical notes in the audio to the run time of the .GIFs. I put together my file as best I could--a parade of stupid cartoon characters dancing, completely out of step with the music--and then saved it as a Quicktime .mov file, just to see what kind of file size we're talking about. It took about 10-15 minutes to save and the 2.5 minute long video is (ouch) 77 MB. I just used the preset compression options, though. Also, the finished masterpiece has the words "Trial Version--Please Register" pasted in the middle of the screen the entire run time, in green letters. I like that, though--gives it a certain shabby authenticity. Any recommendations of a Windows-based video editor that allows syncing of audio and images and that can save output as multiple file types (particularly .mov) would be greatly appreciated.
- tom moody 11-11-2004 9:04 pm
post it! I wanna see me some cartoons gettin' down.
- thickeye 11-11-2004 11:42 pm
tom, this sounds like a hit! you might look at the compression options to see if there's are choices like "web" or "email". you ought to be able to get a 2.5 minute video down to just a couple megs.
- douglas r (guest) 11-12-2004 8:20 pm
my point being that we'd all like to see the masterpiece!
- douglas r (guest) 11-12-2004 8:20 pm
it sounds like its time for you to go macintosh and get to know imovie for starters. macs are the king of video editing with "final cut pro" being the state of the art.
- anonymous (guest) 11-12-2004 8:40 pm
Pinnacle makes some PC oriented tools. I don't know much about them, but they seem to sell a lot. Anon is right. Final Cut Pro is the gold standard.
- mark 11-12-2004 9:58 pm
Mac for video is the real deal. FCP is the #1 vid edit app, & OSX ships with a really good video edit app called iMovie. Also, there is one awesome video fx app that exist in a Mac-only format called Studio Artist 3.0 by Synthetik (synthetik.com). It is so incredibly amazing and cool that it alone justifies a platform change. I wave my pirate flag right about now.
- Abraham Kalashnikov (guest) 11-13-2004 1:10 am
hey Tom, in case you are suspicious, I did not start off the "you should get a mac" thread by posting as anonymous. But I would've if I'd thought of it!
- sally mckay 11-13-2004 5:11 am