New Here

blazera · Post by **blazera** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:41 pm

Yep...I'm new to the world of amv's. I love watchin 'em, and I feel like makin one. Right now, all I have is windows movie maker, can't find version number(whatever ME starts off with). Well, I can't really go to buy any cool software or hardware(my town sucks), but, are there any decent free movie makers on the net, better than stock windows movie maker? And, anything else I should know? I wanna try making video's to classical music...energetic orchestrated music, like beethoven. A comical amv here and there.

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:54 pm

Hey welcome!

By the way your signature is too big. 80 pixels high is the limit.

Back on-topic:
I cant really point out any free video editor better then WMM, as I havent seen one better yet for Windows.

blazera · Post by **blazera** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 4:06 pm

thank ya, changed signature(man, that's not much room for creativity, oh well). Guess I'll stick with wmm then.

emopunk1 · Post by **emopunk1** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:35 pm

DDClip is decent for a free editor, but it doesn't have any special effects.

Otherwise, look for cheap editing software online.

Zaphod_Beeblebrox · Post by **Zaphod_Beeblebrox** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:13 am

upgrade to WMM2 at the microsoft website, thats the best i can recommend.

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:51 am

If you want more power and flexibility than you could ever hope for in WMM2, go to goole and run some searches on:

Linux (try Fedora Core 1 or Fedora Core 2 - they're very easy to install, and provide a feature-rich desktop environment that shouldn't be too foreign to Widows users). I'd suggest running KDE as your desktop environment (you pick this at install time) rather than Gnome, as it's generally more refined and easier for a Windows user to get used to.

Cinelerra (a quirky but full-featured open-source video editing application for Linux).

MPlayer/MEncoder (it can play almost anything, and encode it as almost anything else. be sure to use the console version (more features), and read it's man page before you try to do anything with it - this will save you a lot of time and show you how to do a lot of advanced things with your transcoding).

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Or, if you don't want to mess with installing and getting used to Linux, AVISynth is a very powerful free application with which you can do some amazing things. I'm no expert in using it, but I'm pretty sure there's a big section of the guides where AbsoluteDestiny explains how you can exploit the vast potential of AVISynth.

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If you really want to keep things simple, it's possible to make a good AMV in WMM2. It does, however, essentially limit your editing powers to moving clips around on the timeline and doing linear crossfades between them. It offers a few effects, but most of these are of the goofy "consumer video" nature, and even the bread-and-butter processing features like brightness and contrast levels lack much of the flexibility found in many other applications.