AMV Software Lists

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:31 pm

Yorokobi I've used Pinnacles program in the past, and I have the new version of studio 8 although since I've invested so much time into premiere that generally I don't use it much.

It's an excellent program. It's a single track editing system, with hundreds of canned transition effects. Studio likes to use a capture board, and can work directly with mpeg 1 and 2 files. You can also export with these formats with no loss in speed as it is usually hardware encoded. Real time previews and transitions are one of the major selling points. If you have an older board, contact pinnacle, they have a buyback/upgrade policy that kicks ass.

Personally I've never really liked the scrubbing system for timing music to video, but your mileage may vary.

I'm also not super fond of the big honkin' interface. It feels like I'm wasting work area somehow.

Hope that helps.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 12:04 am

NicholasDWolfwood wrote:Taran, add Cinelerra to the audio editing list, seeing as how it was an audio editing program before it became Cinelerra

Sorry, "there is no edit button". The hope was that corrections and updates would be made by posting replies in this thread...as you've done.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 12:15 am

Yorokobi wrote:Good thread, but can anyone help me with Ulead's VideoStudio?...

I had different problems with Video Studio and stopped using it. You might consider VideoFactory (from either Sonic Foundry or Sony, it's the same program). It's under $100, easy to use with only two video tracks, does panning and zoom and a bunch of built-in effects. I made several AMVs with it before moving up. At first I had it running on a 600 MHz (PII) Celeron, although currently I'm running it on an 800 MHz PIII.

You'll find some reviews on the Software page (link from your member home page).

Hitori · Post by **Hitori** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 1:10 pm

This one should have been added as well for the Photo Editing software.

Title: Painter 8
Company: Corel
System: Windows, Mac
Weblink: http://www.corel.com/painter8/
Prince range: $149 Upgrade; $299 Full
Grade: mid-level consumer to professional
Trial version? Yes
Comments: Pretty much like Adobe Photoshop... But different..

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 4:07 pm

I use the free Irfanview for my image editing (granted its mediocre but). Irfanview + Paintbrush > Photoshop in my experiance, and it's got media playing, capturing capability etc.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:02 pm

(Courtesy of EBwiz)
Several Premiere tutorials can be found here:
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutorials.htm

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:09 pm

(Courtesy of narcted)
Ulead operates an online outlet store that sells older versions of their software products at substantial discounts. Includes Video Studio, PhotoImpact, GIF Animator, etc. Stock is limited.

Find out more: http://www.lowsoft.com/

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 11:10 pm

http://www.jahshaka.com/

Cross-platform ... multimedia tool. Really, that's the best way for me to describe this thing. It does video editing, 3D animation, audio editing and music composition, simple (2-layer) compositing...all kinds of stuff.

It's in a very early stage right now, but nevertheless, it's interesting.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 2:24 am

Sonic Foundry has completed the handover of their software products to Sony Media. This is the new Web site: http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/

Affected products:

* Sound Forge
* Vegas
* ACID
* Screenblast Movie Studio (formerly VideoFactory)

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 8:57 am

TaranT wrote:Sonic Foundry has completed the handover of their software products to Sony Media

Vegas 4.0 DVD Software wrote:Audio
Audio recording, editing, and mixing

24-bit/96 kHz audio support

5.1 surround mixing tools

just a little out of date, the standards as of 3 months ago were:

32-bit/96 kHz audio support

6.1 surround 8 channel mixing tools

-traxx