Whats the best program for making vids???

friezat2 · Post by **friezat2** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 2:27 pm

I have Adobe Premiere 6.0, Adobe After Effects 5.0 and Windows Movie Maker. Now, does anyone else know of a good program at all. I can't use Premiere because I don't understand it. I have a Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz computer with 512 megs of ram so it can take anything. Any advice at all would be nice.[/img]

Kamoc · Post by **Kamoc** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 3:32 pm

for $600 you better learn how to understand it.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 5:11 pm

I didn't understand Premiere when I first looked at it. Then I decided, okay I'll just sit the fuck down and dredge my way through.

Make a simple video with just transitions in it

Then move up to other things like the transparency rubberbands, keyframing, keying..

That stuff..

Then there is always the manual. Premiere is pretty basic and lays it out there for you. I don't think another program would be as easy at it is.

But you can try Windows Movie Maker.

~klinky

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 5:14 pm

Same thing with AE for me. I didn't understand it, and I still don't understand it, but one of these days I'm going to sit down for a few hours and figure it out.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 4:57 pm

You've got good enough programs, question is do you have enough brains to try and figure out the Adobe nightmares?

vincentpricemil · Post by **vincentpricemil** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 2:26 am

Best thing I can say about learning any software is sit down and screw around with it. Even if you manage to screw everything up, it's a lesson learned, and you know better next time. What it boils down to is experience is the best teacher you can ever hope for. So take that copy of premiere and don't stop til you've crashed it at least 50 times! (j/k)

friezat2 · Post by **friezat2** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 3:06 pm

Thanks for all the help and I think I'll try to sit down and figure out AP after all.

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 5:20 pm

And read the manual that comes with it, it's a good guide.

NME · Post by **NME** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 7:54 pm

Warez doesn't come with manuals. >.<

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 9:34 pm

NME wrote:Warez doesn't come with manuals. >.<

Well, anybody who's smart enough to warez something ought to be smart enough to figure out the program they warez, yeah?

Right?

Right?

On the off-chance you didn't steal Premiere, AE, or that 1.8 GHz P4, there's excellent documentation in the manuals. And it always helps to just fool around.