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Skidfingers McGonical Grand Master

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To the Techy guys on here.

 

In the New Year I am going to be working with my mates band on a video blog, that will be potentially a monthly thing, and I am looking for some suggestions on some video editing software, I would use Movie Maker on Windows but it needs to be a little more fancy than what Movie Maker can do.

 

Any suggestions will get a rep or an owed rep.

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Cheers peeps.

 

If I am honest I am not 100% sure what I am going to do on the video, I will be working with one of the lads from the band, but he seems keen on my ideas.

 

Looking at doing a satirical style interview video.

 

It's my first delve into the video editing world and any pointers would be appreciated. Are there many tutorial vids on YouTube for example I can observe,? been doing that for Cubase 5 and I find it a lot easier to follow than written instructions.

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I don't know anything whatsoever about making videos and whatnot dude, so i'm not sure what you would consider technical. I've dug up a few video tutorial links for you, hopefully they'll lead you in the right direction.

 

VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins and Stock Footage for Post Production Professionals

Aetuts+ | Adobe After Effects tutorials from beginner to advanced.

CreativeCOW

 

Good luck dude!

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Cheers peeps.

 

If I am honest I am not 100% sure what I am going to do on the video, I will be working with one of the lads from the band, but he seems keen on my ideas.

 

Looking at doing a satirical style interview video.

 

It's my first delve into the video editing world and any pointers would be appreciated. Are there many tutorial vids on YouTube for example I can observe,? been doing that for Cubase 5 and I find it a lot easier to follow than written instructions.

 

For iMovie Apple - iLife - See everything iLife '11 can do..

 

Now if this is your first little venture into this field I'll strongly recommend you to not go and buy something at first. A program like Final Cut Pro is what Sky for instance uses and it is extremely complicated to start out in. Go with something like iMovie, get your feet wet and when this can't do what you want it to do and you are looking for something that can do a whole lot more, then look at FCE or FCP. Note, there is a massive gap.

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VideoCoPilot that has been linked a couple of posts above is the one you want to be checking out if going down the AfterEffects route.

 

Andrew Kramer who does them is superb at what he does and whilst teaching things with a sense of humour does get the points across.

 

If i was doing some video editing then it would be with AE as you can do all sorts of different special effect, animation etc.

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Premiere has an elements package which you can get with Photoshop elements for about £70

FCP/FCE are the ones i'd go with if you have a mac, Premiere if you are on Windows.

its also an idea to have a think about what you're going to film with(cameras/lighting). Nothing worse than trying to make shit footage look good. Be prepared to do some test shooting, making a recce if its an external shoot at the same time and day you may be shooting. i made a film once in a kids playground and when we got there the North west model boat society were having a grand prix on the boating lake next door!!! we managed to persuade them to give us two hours to get all our dialogue stuff done, nightmare shoot!

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Premiere has an elements package which you can get with Photoshop elements for about £70

FCP/FCE are the ones i'd go with if you have a mac, Premiere if you are on Windows.

its also an idea to have a think about what you're going to film with(cameras/lighting). Nothing worse than trying to make shit footage look good. Be prepared to do some test shooting, making a recce if its an external shoot at the same time and day you may be shooting. i made a film once in a kids playground and when we got there the North west model boat society were having a grand prix on the boating lake next door!!! we managed to persuade them to give us two hours to get all our dialogue stuff done, nightmare shoot!

 

Good advice. I've just this minute completed the final cut of something that was so well shot by my cinematographer I only had to correct the gamma on a couple of clips.

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I'd look at investing in either Final Cut Studio or the Adobe Production Suite. That way most of your post needs are met.

 

If you'll be running off a laptop, then I'd suggest Final Cut Studio, unless you can get a laptop running a 64-bit version of Windows that supports Adobe's Mercury Engine.

 

All the best, hope things work out for you guys.

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DJLJ Grand Master

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Anyone know? Think it might be Mac based software, not sure if there's a Mac counterpart for Windows Movie Maker?

 

Could be made in anything. You can create it in QT Pro and anything above it. Just moving pictures. Could probably even be done in iMovie which is similar I'd say to Movie Maker, though I've never used that, just based on your mention on it above. Also, depending on how much is being put into it, the most important would most likely be matching pictures movement to the music, that can be a tad difficult. But again, above is just guesses, could be anything really.

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