Suggestions for a begginner :)

Gwarsbane · Post by **Gwarsbane** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 2:24 pm

I am totally new to creating any sort of music video (thou I have collected many over the years).

I would like to get into editing, but I want to start slow. I would like to know what software would be best for me. I'm running a AMD XP 1800 with 256 megs of ram on Windows XP home edition.

What I want do to is...

1) Take an existing video that has a song with Russian lyrics and replace it with the same song with English lyrics. (I have not been able to find an English version of the video)

2) I would also like to take that same video and put in the English version of the song and have it offset by a few seconds so that the English version plays and in the background you hear the Russian version play. (It was an interesting accident I had with the video and mp3 playing at the same time)

I would also need to turn the volume down to about half for the Russian version that is already in the video.

I know that I need a program with layers. All I will need to start out is a video layer, a layer for the Russian lyrics and a layer for the English lyrics.

The video is currently a mpg file and I would like to keep it that way.

Thank you for your time,

Gwarsbane

red pill · Post by **red pill** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 2:33 pm

well, wile i dont know how you can do it on it i thank that aboe premer can do what you want. but dont take my word for it...i havent maged to chere one out yet. in fact im just a little on from were you are realy (5 seconds of footge for a 3 minte song...i need to do some work...)

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 2:48 pm

Ok Gwarsbane, you have been here long enough. You should have read all the guides, and enough of the fourms to know what's going on and exactly why only n00bs are ansering this question. If not.... Shame. Shame on you.
Besides what happen to the good old days when people found thier own software, tried demos untill the prefered program is found?

Gwarsbane · Post by **Gwarsbane** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 5:40 pm

Because I haven't actually been around here for a long time. Yes I did register a while ago, but I havn't visit many times. I just started recieving e-mail about a-m-v.org which made me think about coming here and asking for help.

There are many items to read. It takes a long time to read them all. There are over 100,000 posts to this message board you know. I am not the fastest of readers when reading stuff on screen as my eyes get tired easily. Its an eye problem.

So far I have tried at least 4 different demos and have not been able to get them working right. It could be that they are very limited in what they can do. I figured that I would ask the experts here that have been making videos for a long time what software would do what I would like to do.

Also, one reason that only a noob (in your own words) has answered, (and thank you for that red pill, i'll download that program later to try it) could be that my question has only been up for a few hours and the experts haven't see it yet. Another reason could be that some of the experts that have seen my request and ignored it are snobs and don't want to help someone that they fell they are better then.

All I basically asked was if someone could point me in the right direction. So far, it seems like a person that only registered 2 days ago is doing a better job of it then some yahoo that has been around for about 10 months.

If you don't like my question, tough. I don't know the answer, I don't have all the time in the world to look through over 100,000 posts for a question I don't think would be answered in them. Some of us have other lives.

If the PTB don't like how I answered Mr Pilkington's post, i'm sorry, but he did reply my question rather rudly I think.

Also for your information, I have been searching google for a while for information that I needed, but have not been having any luck.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 9:49 pm

sorry for not staying on subject, but your avatar is to large. It can only be 80x80 pixels (max).

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:01 pm

You could do the mixing in windows sound recorder, and then tmpg encoder freeware to re-combine with the video. But you have to know at least a bit about mpg, wav, mp3 and mp2 audio, encoding & multiplexing, before actually start editing. Info & guides aplenty on the Internet, otherwise just read the help files provided in multimedia applications you use.