Video and Audio Programs

I'm looking at purchasing a video and uadio editing program. I'll probably go with Blaze Media Pro but I was curious if there any other good programs I should try out first. What do you guys prefer?

THere's that Adobe thing that costs about 5 billion dollars...

It doesn't have to cost 5 billion dolars cough

Anyways, whenever I do some editing I use vobsub, which is open source. Its not too fancy, but it get the job done.

Yeah, you could probably crack the trial.

OR you could just make your own school and get it at educational prices!

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OR you could just make your own school and get it at educational prices!

WOW! that is such a great idea on to get software cheap!

Actually, I work at a school and all my stuff is at educational prices. W00T!

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i use blaze as well....good proggy for the money.... :wink: but this is one of those, "you get what you pay for" kinda things....

Doc B... :dodgy:

Not to put to fine a point on it Spartan, perhaps you should clarify your goals.

My point is, there are some pretty nifty free programs out there for editing movies.. Virtual dub is one of them. But I assume, movies isn't your goal, in spite of you posting [quote] Video and audio programs.[/quote]

So, as I said, perhaps if you clarified your intentions, you'd receive pertinent advice.

There are some taboo programs if you have no compulsions to obtaining one.

I'd certainly look into the free ones. Truly free, not taboo free.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

My intentions are to create "movie like" trailers for mods. Basically machina if you wiil. :smile:

If you have a lot of time and are not afraid of some scripting, the
combination Virtualdub and Avisynth works perfectly for me. The only
difference is I'm writing 2 pages of code for an effect Premiere has
built-in.

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Well I can't code so that's out of tehe quastion. I'm not making the music either just making the video. I'll take the shots using gamecam then use another program to edit the shots and music so it matches up, maybe add some effects, text, narration, etc.

P.S. still can't see my text.

Yeah, you could probably crack the trial.

That would be illegal though, huh?

Think with your brain, not your mouth.

sighs

I seem to be wasting my time on you Frenchy.

And you Gwil... I missed that one.. Good catch.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Well theres Vitual Dub, and of Course Windows Movie Maker. Both
are free, but VD gives you a ton of video and audio compression
methods, but you can't actually splice the film up the way you
want. Meaning, you'll have to split up and all that good
stuff in Windows Movie Maker, then import it into VD. Neither
really have any audio abilities though. If you're looking for
editing audio specifically, get Goldwave.

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

For audio editing, I'd suggest Audacity personally. Nice, free, open-source editor.

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Dark_Kilauea
DVS Administration
http://www.dvstudio-production.com/

There are some taboo programs if you have no compulsions to obtaining one.

He basically said exactly the same thing as me. Except you have
to take a second to look through the sugar-coating. I'm not
saying I know how to do it, just that's it's most likely possible.

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He basically said exactly the same thing as me. Except you have to take a second to look through the sugar-coating. I'm not saying I know how to do it, just that's it's most likely possible.
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Yes, you are 99% right. I said the same thing.

You see, Snarkpit has a basic bylaw that it will not promote theft of any kind. I can link you to threads where Lep has admitted to taboo stuff himself but the basic reality is, HE CANNOT SUPPORT IT.

So we sugar coat it..

If you want to say something similar again... Use your mind, not your mouth.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Exactly. Snarkpit in no way supports, tolerates or promotes the use of
illegal software - I thought this had been made clear in the past few
weeks, myself.

I don't think there is any way around it, ahem, but for the public
forums - openly stating that things can be cracked, downloaded, or have
been cracked or downloaded contravenes my policy of "Piracy exists -
let's not discuss it in any explicit form here".

Suppose some international crime fighting organization went out and shut down every website that had mention on wares. If they saw tabbo, they couldn't do much about it. Then they see "Just crack the trial version", and they shut down the snarkpit. Do you want to be single handly responsible for that french, DO YOU?

Well, when you put it that way...

I sounds like you want something fast and easy. Adobe Premire actually runs like crap most of the time ... and is a more "professional tool", but not really though. It just has a billion options you wont use.

For something easy, I'd suggest something like Intervideo WinProducer, or Cyberlink PowerDirector. They're both insanely easy to use, and produce video quite quickly. They've got some built in effects and their own capture ability, in case you want to capture from the TV or something like that.

You can try trials of both too!

Here (Intervideo) and here (Cyberlink).

For some reason I couldn't find winproducer from any links on intervideo's site, weird. Anyway, there those are.

There are also guide floating around if you really need them. The demos are limited time trials, but will give full functionality.

The only problem I've ever experienced was with WinProducer, and some of its formats were very odd and couldn't play. But, it was a freak thing.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

My frined suggested some program called "vegas", I think it was.

Adobe Premiere
Acid Pro 6

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