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Postby Lucia » Thu Nov 07, 2002 4:25 pm

i was wondering if there is any software that is free that is not windows movie maker that is good to make amv's :?:
yes i am cheap :oops: because i'm to young for a job so anything:?: :?
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Postby trythil » Thu Nov 07, 2002 9:16 pm

A reasonably powerful and free audio/video editing suite can be found if you assemble the components found at the following sites:

http://www.gentoo.org
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettinge ... transcode/
http://www.gimp.org
http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3


...well, actually, it's only free if your time is worthless.
...or if you're a genius.
For me, it's the former.
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Postby klinky » Thu Nov 07, 2002 9:46 pm

Whoa whoa there "Mr. Spamda Can't Drive Loonix Boy", that's all for loonix 8)

Not for the windows, unfortunately you're not going to have much luck with finding free stuffs. Get the Premiere demo off of Adobe's website and give that a whirl. There are also less legal methods to obtain copies of softwares, but we shunt talk about them here.


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Postby trythil » Thu Nov 07, 2002 10:00 pm

klinky wrote:Whoa whoa there "Mr. Spamda Can't Drive Loonix Boy", that's all for loonix 8)


trythil very clearly wrote:...well, actually, it's only free if your time is worthless.
...or if you're a genius.
For me, it's the former.
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Postby kthulhu » Thu Nov 07, 2002 10:42 pm

Free? Hmm, nothing comes to mind.

But soup kitchens = free sex!
I'm out...
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Postby Red Wolf » Thu Nov 07, 2002 10:53 pm

*cough* iMovie *cough*

*Slinks back to his Mac hole*
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Postby Ashyukun » Thu Nov 07, 2002 11:26 pm

trythil wrote:A reasonably powerful and free audio/video editing suite can be found if you assemble the components found at the following sites:

http://www.gentoo.org
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettinge ... transcode/
http://www.gimp.org
http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3


Unfortunately, those probably aren't the best things to be starting out with unless you're already fairly well versed in Linux, or wanted to get into it in the first place. I've looked into Cinelerra myself, but I wasn't able to get too far before getting frustrated with it and booting back over to use Premiere in Windoze. I'd love to see someone write a guide on AMV'ing under Linux though... :wink:
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Postby JCD » Mon Nov 11, 2002 3:15 pm

one of you guys ever heard of the german <a href="http://download.com.com/3000-2194-8952847.html?tag=lst-0-1" target="_blank">moviexone</a>? (aviable in english also)
its FREE, it works like premiere with much less options and is VERY safe. althrough it can restore projects if it crashes. best free program, undoubtely for me.
even only the thing that it exports in avi makes it imho better than wmm
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Postby MediaRat_NorthBOB » Tue Nov 12, 2002 11:18 pm

illegal copies of software like Primeir 6.0 and After effects 5.0 are unethical and under the domain of the 'forces of just plane wrong'.

That said, editing software is expensive. I suggest using Primeir or Ulead under a test period and get comfortable. Perhaps at some point you might even 'buy' the software.

I wonder what's that like. 'Buying' software?
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Postby ErMaC » Tue Nov 12, 2002 11:28 pm

Jesus christ man, this is a forum, not AIM. Not to be overly rude, but learn to spell.

And please don't go off on a rant about how you don't care and how I'm being an oppressive facist nazi for asking that people maintain some semblence of intelligence on this forum. I've heard it all before.
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Postby kthulhu » Wed Nov 13, 2002 12:07 am

Problem, sir?
I'm out...
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Postby trythil » Wed Nov 13, 2002 2:58 am

Ashyukun wrote:Unfortunately, those probably aren't the best things to be starting out with unless you're already fairly well versed in Linux, or wanted to get into it in the first place. I've looked into Cinelerra myself, but I wasn't able to get too far before getting frustrated with it and booting back over to use Premiere in Windoze. I'd love to see someone write a guide on AMV'ing under Linux though... :wink:


You are correct: learning how to compile, set up, and administer the Gentoo Linux system, the Heroine Virtual video editing system, GIMP, transcode, etc., can take quite a bit of time.

Then again, learning Premiere and Photoshop -also- can take a significant amount of effort and time. Granted, it's probably not going to be nearly as much of a time investment, because many more people are familiar with the operation of the Windows or Macintosh platforms as media workstations than they are with UNIX or UNIX derivatives as media workstations.*

Anyway. I posted URLs to those tools because, well, put together, they produce a complete, legally free system for doing multimedia work. They can take a lot of time to learn, but if there's any interest in them at all, I can probably put together some sort of guide for AMV editing on Linux systems, although I cannot guarantee that it wouldn't suck.


ErMaC wrote:And please don't go off on a rant about how you don't care and how I'm being an oppressive facist nazi for asking that people maintain some semblence of intelligence on this forum. I've heard it all before.


Well, not to rag on you, ErMaC, but:
"facist" should be "fascist"
"nazi" should be "Nazi"
"semblence" should be "semblance"

:D


* Yes, I know, Mac OS X IS based off a UNIX derivative (and is a UNIX in its own right), and Windows NT is technically POSIX-certified, but people generally do not associate the technical challenges of getting Unices to run with either system, because (1) Mac OS X is just that freaking cool, and (2) everything is written for Windows these days.
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Postby ErMaC » Wed Nov 13, 2002 4:30 am

The fascist and Nazi were on purpose. The semblence wasn't :P
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Postby stormybaka » Wed Nov 13, 2002 5:44 am

I'd agree with JCD...That's the program I was using before I got premiere...It's not as good as premiere, but it's a good enough program and very user friendly...as well as free...
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Postby Ashyukun » Wed Nov 13, 2002 8:26 am

trythil wrote:Anyway. I posted URLs to those tools because, well, put together, they produce a complete, legally free system for doing multimedia work. They can take a lot of time to learn, but if there's any interest in them at all, I can probably put together some sort of guide for AMV editing on Linux systems, although I cannot guarantee that it wouldn't suck.


I'm definitely not complaining about posting the links to them- I'd personally love to be able to do all my AMV work in Linux, but every attempt at it just hasn't met with any success. Even if your guide were to suck, it would still be better than what currently exists, which is a close enough approximation to nothing.

Unfortunately, there are still probably some things that I'd have to do in Windows, especially after getting used to After Effects... :/
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