Post subject: Video editing software needed
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I'm in need of a video editor that can apply visual stuff to videos like in teleshopping shows or quiz shows. Adding scrolling text would be cool too. I need this for a school project. Any help is welcome :)
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You should include your operating system when you make a request like that, or someone might try to help you and make the wrong assumption. Anyway... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_editing_software
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MUGG wrote:
I'm in need of a video editor that can apply visual stuff to videos like in teleshopping shows or quiz shows. Adding scrolling text would be cool too. I need this for a school project. Any help is welcome :)
Windows Movie Maker. it can add scrolling text at least, not really sure about those other things... you mean something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urJbXqfRVXw try sony vegas and adobe premiere.
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nfq wrote:
Windows Movie Maker.
Ugh, no. Personally, I find myself comfortable with Techsmith Camtasia Studio 3, though newer versions suck.
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My operating system is Windows XP.
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nineko wrote:
Ugh, no.
Why not? It's easy to use, you can do a lot of stuff with it and most of all: it's free. I doubt there is any better non-linear video editing program that is free. If you know of any, please tell. People often say that WMM sucks, but strangely, I've never yet heard any reason why. If you have any, I would be interested to hear it.
Personally, I find myself comfortable with Techsmith Camtasia Studio 3, though newer versions suck.
costs money
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nfq wrote:
costs money
Oh. I... see <_<
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nineko wrote:
Actually my post was sarcastic, and it implied that I know that Camtasia costs money, but I cracked it.
i see, i thought you said that because you got owned :P i agree that camtasia studio is a better program than WMM (not very much though), but it isn't meant that we should crack the program, that's why WMM is actually better.
About WMM, it sucks because it's a program by Microsoft.
i think micro$oft owns because most people use their OS which means that windows has more programs and stuff than other OSes.
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I'm actually asking for a software that can add stuff like this to the screen: If Movie maker supports doing just that, that would be news to me. Also, I don't think movie maker supports scrolling text.
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It looks like what you want is VirtualDub and/or avisynth. I don't remember how to use avisynth, or what exactly it's capable of, but it seems like the right direction.
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yeah, avisynth can probably do that kind of stuff too, and it's free. it claims to provide "almost unlimited ways of editing and processing videos". however, it's very unintuitive to use.... so it's mostly pure Crap in my opinion, but it has some uses, and if you can bother to learn to use it, it can probably be very useful. i don't really like avisynth because you have to be smarter than einstein if you want to use it. and like i said earlier in my edited post, movie maker can do scrolling text but it can't do those image overlay things. use sony vegas or adobe premiere.
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I like Windows Movie Maker's interface, but it needs a few more features before I can take it seriously, and it's rather slow and crash-prone on my system. Though that could be just because I bought too little RAM.
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It also has hilariously bad codec compression, but who cares about that, everyone has 8TB broadband these days
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LagDotCom wrote:
It also has hilariously bad codec compression, but who cares about that, everyone has 8TB broadband these days
i only have a 2mbit. xvid and divx have just as bad compression.
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Sarcasm, and no they don't.
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I gave AviSynth a try now. But when I try to install it, an error message pops up saying that I'm lacking administrator rights. That might be caused by the laptop I'm using. I could try to install it on my own PC once I'm back home (I'm at school right now). I also read the wiki page of AviSynth and it notes that the software is controlled entirely by scripting. And I'm not good at the field of programming, scripting and the like. Help? Isn't there another software out there that supports overlapping two media files (or any way so that it creates the outcome I mentioned above)?
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MUGG wrote:
I'm actually asking for a software that can add stuff like this to the screen: If Movie maker supports doing just that, that would be news to me. Also, I don't think movie maker supports scrolling text.
You could probably use the logo filter with virtualdub. Check it out at http://neuron2.net/logo/logo.html Tutorial videos are available on Youtube. For example this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJgi9XWgbcM
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I've had one problem with WMM that I couldn't figure out how to fix. Whenever I overlay text across a moving video or do a fade effect, the whole screen expands by about 2 pixels, then shrinks back down once the text disappears. I figured it was a problem with the compression options and codec I chose, but I couldn't find a combination that would fix it. And it looks really bad. Demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iffe_1Qch4