Video Editing Software?

bananax182 · 01-14-2007, 10:03 PM

Hellooo all,
I was interested in making some 'stop-motion' videos (i don't know if that is the appropriate term). I saw some videos of a guy who took a bunch of movie clips of him making various sounds, and then splicing them together, musically, to make it sound like he was beatboxing, and in another video, playing the drums. I tried to do something similar using Microsoft's movie maker, but the program didn't allow much freedom of how short/long each clip would be..and the tempo of the stop-motion beatbox was very inconsistent. Does anyone know of any good inexpensive video editing software out there? I just need something a step above microsoft's movie maker...something that will be capible of allowing me to adjust the length/position of a video clip, down to something that must not always be in increments of 0.07 seconds (as microsoft's program forces). Thanks, all!

bananax182 · 01-14-2007, 10:07 PM

Hello, i'm trying to rotoscope a lightsaber film. I've done it before, using microsoft's movie maker...taking the original film and cutting it into "frames"...How ever, as it turns out, it wasn't so much "frames" i had cut the video file into...rather just screen shots of 0.07s intervals of the movie file.. does anyone know of any more effective (and easier) ways I can take a video file and turn it into a bunch of jpegs of each individual frame? Thanks!

Inactive · 01-15-2007, 05:26 AM

i've done very little video editing, but virtualdub might be worth a look.

olobay · 02-07-2007, 08:45 AM

Try Avid Free Dv.

eagledrc · 12-28-2007, 09:21 PM

Jashaka
open source
hard to use...

**zuluclayman** · 01-14-2008, 12:55 AM

I use Adobe Premiere Elements lots of power for relatively low cost (about USD$99) - gives you lots of video, audio tracks ability to slow areas, speed areas up etc. can export video as frames, import sequences of stills and set timing for frame rate and more :)

01-14-2007, 10:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
bananax182 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 15 OS: XP	Video Editing Software? Hellooo all, I was interested in making some 'stop-motion' videos (i don't know if that is the appropriate term). I saw some videos of a guy who took a bunch of movie clips of him making various sounds, and then splicing them together, musically, to make it sound like he was beatboxing, and in another video, playing the drums. I tried to do something similar using Microsoft's movie maker, but the program didn't allow much freedom of how short/long each clip would be..and the tempo of the stop-motion beatbox was very inconsistent. Does anyone know of any good inexpensive video editing software out there? I just need something a step above microsoft's movie maker...something that will be capible of allowing me to adjust the length/position of a video clip, down to something that must not always be in increments of 0.07 seconds (as microsoft's program forces). Thanks, all!

01-14-2007, 10:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
bananax182 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 15 OS: XP	Breaking a video file into frames? Hello, i'm trying to rotoscope a lightsaber film. I've done it before, using microsoft's movie maker...taking the original film and cutting it into "frames"...How ever, as it turns out, it wasn't so much "frames" i had cut the video file into...rather just screen shots of 0.07s intervals of the movie file.. does anyone know of any more effective (and easier) ways I can take a video file and turn it into a bunch of jpegs of each individual frame? Thanks!

01-15-2007, 05:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
Inactive Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,704 OS: ~	i've done very little video editing, but virtualdub might be worth a look. __________________ "it takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen" Homer

02-07-2007, 08:45 AM	#4 (permalink)
olobay Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 89 OS: XP	Avid Free Dv Try Avid Free Dv.

12-28-2007, 09:21 PM	#5 (permalink)
eagledrc Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Chicago Suburbs Posts: 33 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium (1st edition), Ubuntu 7.10	Re: Video Editing Software? Jashaka open source hard to use... __________________ ~Ocean~

01-14-2008, 12:55 AM	#6 (permalink)
zuluclayman Design Team Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Newcastle, Australia Posts: 3,049 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium My System	Re: Video Editing Software? I use Adobe Premiere Elements lots of power for relatively low cost (about USD$99) - gives you lots of video, audio tracks ability to slow areas, speed areas up etc. can export video as frames, import sequences of stills and set timing for frame rate and more :)