Suggestions for decent video editing software?

[bvibert]

Here's my first effort using Vegas (free trial version):

Sundown 12/27/06 Small (6MB)
Sundown 12/27/06 Large (32MB)

It's pretty short, and there's not much to it. I only shot a few minutes of video that night and I really wanted to play with Vegas...

 

[Greg]

Here's my first effort using Vegas (free trial version):

Sundown 12/27/06 Small (6MB)
Sundown 12/27/06 Large (32MB)

It's pretty short, and there's not much to it. I only shot a few minutes of video that night and I really wanted to play with Vegas...

So what did you find that Vegas did better or easier than WMM on this particular project? I notice your file sizes are much smaller.

 

[bvibert]

So what did you find that Vegas did better or easier than WMM on this particular project? I notice your file sizes are much smaller.

Don't forget that the Hunter vid is over 8 minutes and the Sundown one is only a 3 minutes, so that probably accounts for most of the file size difference.

Vegas was actually a little harder to get started with, I didn't find it to be quite as intuitive as WMM. That's probably because you can do a lot more with it. I found it had more control over finely trimming the scenes, IE; you can zoom in right to the frame level so when you move the slider you aren't skipping over frames due to the resolution of the time scale. It's way easier to speed up or slow down a scene if you want to, you aren't restricted to applying a half or double speed filter. You can also play a clip in reverse if you need to (I did that in the closing scene where it starts on the trail and then pans to the moon and zooms in on it). The text overlays are more powerful as well, they're more customizable than the WMM ones.

There's definitely more stuff that it can do that I haven't gotten into yet. I'm probably going to end up buying it...

 

[Greg]

IE; you can zoom in right to the frame level so when you move the slider you aren't skipping over frames due to the resolution of the time scale.

You can do this in WMM. There is a next frame button in the preview pane, or you can use Alt + left/right arrow...

 

[bvibert]

You can do this in WMM. There is a next frame button in the preview pane, or you can use Alt + left/right arrow...

Ah, guess I didn't play with it enough.

 

[severine]

What happened to the fancy stuff you were working on in that video? I know you spent a lot of time on that, but I don't see it here.

 

[YardSaleDad]

You can do this in WMM.

Oh, just give in to the dark side. Download the trial and you will see the power of Vegas!

bvibert: Nice video

 

[bvibert]

What happened to the fancy stuff you were working on in that video? I know you spent a lot of time on that, but I don't see it here.

Greg was pestering me to see the video so I decided to leave that stuff out since I hadn't finished it... Maybe next time I can get more fancy.

 

[Greg]

Greg was pestering me to see the video so I decided to leave that stuff out since I hadn't finished it... Maybe next time I can get more fancy.

Blech. So it's my fault? What; were you going to superimposed Beavis on Temptor or something...?

You should file away all the night footage and make a Sundown compilation vid at the end of the season.

 

[bvibert]

Blech. So it's my fault? What; were you going to superimposed Beavis on Temptor or something...?

Nah, but that's a good idea! I was fooling around with matching some clips up the spots in the music where the drum goes Da Da Da in quick succession, like around 1:04. It was coming out pretty good, I just didn't have the time to finish it up like I wanted to. I think Severine is upset because she had to endure hearing me play that short few seconds of the drum part over and over and over again and now it was for nothing...

You should file away all the night footage and make a Sundown compilation vid at the end of the season.

I was just thinking that this morning... Great minds or something like that...

 

[Greg]

Great minds or something like that...

It's a white trash thing...

 

[C2H5OH]

I'm late to this thread but must mention iMovie by Apple (free with you Mac purchase). It's very intuitive and easy to use, at the same time quite advanced.

 

[bvibert]

I'm late to this thread but must mention iMovie by Apple (free with you Mac purchase). It's very intuitive and easy to use, at the same time quite advanced.

I haven't used it, but my wife has it on her Mac and said it works good.

 

[Greg]

Just saw this:

http://www.youtube.com/ytremixer_about

Anyone try it?