[videoblogging] Re: Editing videos with more than one program
(1) Yes, Windows Movie Maker Portable is I think limited to XP and before as it is a revamp of an old release before Microsoft rolled back some of the features. (2) I'm still experimenting by saving my videos and opening up various renders in different programs to see m what my options are. That I can go back and forth between Movie Maker and VirtualDub is important to me.As I learn my way through the complexities of video formats, bit rates, and the like I need to cover my bases via such a means. (3)My main interest was to extend my titling options. MM Portable offers an extensive range of video effects but relies on the previous Titling options -- which are nonetheless quite useful without being snazzy. And titling, nonetheless, with MM is so darn easy. (4)However, there's an interesting hack that I'm going to pursue for Movie Maker http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/13/IrfanView_With_Movie_Maker.aspx which uses a great little program -- IrfanView -- to create titles on successive frames. (5)But then, one of my preferred editing programs, Ulead VideoStudio Pro , is being offered by Corel for $US50 all this month which is a bargain in any one's currency. `When I was using Sony Vegas I found minute clip work cumbersome with the program. But then for gross editing VirtualDub is so much faster. So I may end up teaming VirtualDub with Ulead VideoStudio Pro. I'm currently using their 30 day free trail. So I wonder: is there enough extra oomph in Ulead to warrant the money (not much) or the habituation? Unlike Sony Vegas, Ulead is kind to my system's resources. (6) I also explored Cyberlink Power Director but thought that it's one advantage was its rendering speed -- despite its good reviews. dave riley You can also get VirtualDub Portable http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/virtualdub_portable and Movie Maker Portable http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?/topic/23092-update-portable-original-movie-maker-for-7/ with 147 Transitions and 76 effects ...capturing some older features not in later releases. Handy apps for touring between PCs... dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: Editing videos with more than one program
FYI You can also get VirtualDub Portable http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/virtualdub_portable and Movie Maker Portable http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?/topic/23092-update-portable-original-movie-maker-for-7/ with 147 Transitions and 76 effects ...capturing some older features not in later releases. Handy apps for touring between PCs... dave riley
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Editing videos with more than one program
One small problem though. It won't install on a Windows Vista machine (At least on mine anyways. It's a laptop). JFYI Pat - Original Message - From: RatbagMedia ratbagra...@gmail.com To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:49:56 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Editing videos with more than one program FYI You can also get VirtualDub Portable http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/virtualdub_portable and Movie Maker Portable http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?/topic/23092-update-portable-original-movie-maker-for-7/ with 147 Transitions and 76 effects ...capturing some older features not in later releases. Handy apps for touring between PCs... dave riley
[videoblogging] Re: Editing videos with more than one program
I should point out that I'm still experimenting. (1)Especially if I have a lot of clips to edit down I import them into VirtualDub (either direct Capture using VD or by using the capture option of another program) and edit away by paring down the content into a single file.VD imports successive files by name so that it pulls in sequences like 001, 002, 003, 004, etc and will do the same with image files.It is so fast and easy and you can get a precision cut so that other programs I've used seem cumbersome in comparison. (2)After the edit I 'SAVE AS AVI'. (3) Then I open up the same file in Movie Maker or Sony Vegas and proceed to add titles, trim, make a few cuts and add transitions. (3) I then RENDER to as much quality as I can muster then compress it for the web in QuickTime Pro. I edit my audio in Audacity. However, Virtual Dub offers audio grab just like SonyVegas but I need to review the literature on the DIY. MovieMaker has very limited audio editing functionality. While VirtualDub offers sub titling, it doesn't offer other text options nor the ability of importing single text images but I'm still researching that option and trying to find a work around. It seems to me that after the VirtualDub edit -- I can render much faster than I can with SonyVegas and, because I've concentrated all the original clips in the one file,I can import the video into Vegas or MovieMaker very quickly for another edit to add transitions, titles, etc. I have a bookmark archive on delicious for anyone who wants to follow up on VirtualDub (which is a free open sourced program for Windows): http://delicious.com/ratbagradio/virtualdub You can also obtain a copy of the VD Manual here: http://rapidlibrary.com/index.php?q=virtualdub+manual What I'm interested in, and someone may have suggestions, is to be able to create titles on video clips separate from this protocol and import those into the edit. That way I only need to use VirtualDub. The issue is saving to the same format and while VD can handle many formats it can only handle one format at a time I find. Text on stills is easy -- but for various video text options and effects I have to depend on Vegas on MovieMaker(and MM is my favorite tool box in that regard -- although I loved the offerings from Pinnacle when I was using it). Technically you can do this with Virtual Dub too but you have to lay down the text frame by frame -- and that's a bit time consuming. Of course if you are animating... dave riley
