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Hmm.....this seems to be a popular question...

Postby SephOWA » Thu Aug 15, 2002 12:06 pm

...but I must ask anyway.

I've been reading through this forum and see lotsa people asking what software to use for an AMV and I have seen people link to some good, free, legal programs to use so I won't waste your time by simply asking you to spit back the programs that I've seen already.

I'm using a pretty low end computer. I have a 400 mHZ processor, 64 MB of Ram, a 6 gig HDD and I'm running on Windows 98. Most of these programs will run very poorly on my system (being that it's 4 years old) so what I'm asking is if anyone knows of a good piece of software to use that will run fairly well and not crash all the time on my old machine.

Thanks for your help in advance.
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Postby turboneko » Thu Aug 15, 2002 2:07 pm

This question has been answered many times. Basically, if you are not looking for something extremely fancy you can try Windows Movie Maker, the free alternative in video editing :P
If you have the guts you can also do something with Virtualdub, but this is more like using 2 vcrs (kinda tricky).
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Postby kthulhu » Thu Aug 15, 2002 5:43 pm

He'd need to upgrade to Windows ME or XP to use Movie Maker.
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Postby klinky » Thu Aug 15, 2002 6:05 pm

kthulhu wrote:He'd need to upgrade to Windows ME or XP to use Movie Maker.


Since when did you start giving advice!?

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Postby SephOWA » Thu Aug 15, 2002 6:08 pm

:P Analog editing isn't really tricky, just tedious.

I took a Media Arts class last year and we were forced to learn analog editing and I had less problems with that than I did with digital editing (because someone messed with the preview files for premiere, I had a music video I was making compltely destroyed).

But then again, my tape WAS eaten by one of the VCRs but that's besides the point.
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Postby Mask of Destiny » Thu Aug 15, 2002 8:50 pm

I took a Media Arts class last year and we were forced to learn analog editing and I had less problems with that than I did with digital editing


I'm assuming that if you were doing this for a class you were using a real analog editing system and not just two VCRs hooked together. There's quite a difference
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Postby SephOWA » Fri Aug 16, 2002 9:52 pm

I might as well ask but what are you considering "analog" editing then?
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Postby Mask of Destiny » Fri Aug 16, 2002 10:02 pm

Analog editing is any kind of editing that does not represent the video in a digital form except perhaps in a framebuffer to deal with the distortion introduced by the stretching of the tape as it's read. There are expensive decks that do this, though I've never seen one in person. Someone from my church works for Cablevision and he's mentioned them before.
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