InfiniteGXT
03-18-2006, 10:01 PM
Im still not sure if Ill put it on smashboards because people here are more hardcore and whatnot but Im having some issues with making it.
First off, I made the experiamental version a week ago. Its experimental because I was just testing out the transition effects, music comptability, timing, and approximate MB size. Im using Window Movie Maker which sucks. The problems are that I have seen other people make videos with Windows MM and their transitions seem different from mine.
When they use fade to transition fromone clip to the next it only takes about .25 seconds to transition but you can still see that it faded. When I use fade it fades out too soon while there is still action going on. I know that to fix that I just need to make the end of the clip longer so it wont fade while I am still attacking or whatever but it takes about 1 second to stop fading. It will start to fade into the still picture from the next clip mixed with a still picture from the last clip and then start the next clip instead of just fading quickly into the next one.
Next I have issues with the opening/credits of the video. For the closing it gives you very few choices for what you want to do. You get a blue background and a couple faunts and effects and thats it. But when you look at other videos that were mad in WMM like lavagolems Maquess of Pharae he didnt have any of that. He had a picture with the FE characters in the background and credits on it which I have no idea how he did. And for openings from videos like The Chemists, Silent Assasin he had the character selecting on one side and the pening credits on the other side which I still dont know how to do. I want my openings and closings to be like masterwumpus' openings and closing (even though I dont think he uses WMM)
And by far the biggest problem I have is with Compression. I dont know how. masterwumpus' videos are only around 7-8 MB and are 2 times longer than my video which isnt highest quality yet it has 3 times less MB. I downloaded the evaluation version of that windows compresser thng which did nothing and I am not about to spend $39.99 buying the whole thing since I dont even know if I need it. There has to be a way that all of these people made their videos have way less MB than me. Also Since I only have about 18 choices for video format (different screen sizes and KB)
Video for local playback
High quality video
Video for pocket PC
Video for LAN
Video for Broadband
Video for dial-up acces
Video for ISDN
DV-AVI
and I dont even know what they do except for High quality Small and large I figure it must have alot to do with the MB count since when I saved the video on High quality small it was only 1 MB but very tiny on the screen. Currently Im using high quality Large ab the MB is about 30. I want to have the same quality as masterwumpus or one of those other combo vid makers. Something that could fix all of this quickly is if someone told me of another video editing program that is free and downloadable. But I dont think there are too many of thse out there. Thanks in advance for any tips given.
First off, I made the experiamental version a week ago. Its experimental because I was just testing out the transition effects, music comptability, timing, and approximate MB size. Im using Window Movie Maker which sucks. The problems are that I have seen other people make videos with Windows MM and their transitions seem different from mine.
When they use fade to transition fromone clip to the next it only takes about .25 seconds to transition but you can still see that it faded. When I use fade it fades out too soon while there is still action going on. I know that to fix that I just need to make the end of the clip longer so it wont fade while I am still attacking or whatever but it takes about 1 second to stop fading. It will start to fade into the still picture from the next clip mixed with a still picture from the last clip and then start the next clip instead of just fading quickly into the next one.
Next I have issues with the opening/credits of the video. For the closing it gives you very few choices for what you want to do. You get a blue background and a couple faunts and effects and thats it. But when you look at other videos that were mad in WMM like lavagolems Maquess of Pharae he didnt have any of that. He had a picture with the FE characters in the background and credits on it which I have no idea how he did. And for openings from videos like The Chemists, Silent Assasin he had the character selecting on one side and the pening credits on the other side which I still dont know how to do. I want my openings and closings to be like masterwumpus' openings and closing (even though I dont think he uses WMM)
And by far the biggest problem I have is with Compression. I dont know how. masterwumpus' videos are only around 7-8 MB and are 2 times longer than my video which isnt highest quality yet it has 3 times less MB. I downloaded the evaluation version of that windows compresser thng which did nothing and I am not about to spend $39.99 buying the whole thing since I dont even know if I need it. There has to be a way that all of these people made their videos have way less MB than me. Also Since I only have about 18 choices for video format (different screen sizes and KB)
Video for local playback
High quality video
Video for pocket PC
Video for LAN
Video for Broadband
Video for dial-up acces
Video for ISDN
DV-AVI
and I dont even know what they do except for High quality Small and large I figure it must have alot to do with the MB count since when I saved the video on High quality small it was only 1 MB but very tiny on the screen. Currently Im using high quality Large ab the MB is about 30. I want to have the same quality as masterwumpus or one of those other combo vid makers. Something that could fix all of this quickly is if someone told me of another video editing program that is free and downloadable. But I dont think there are too many of thse out there. Thanks in advance for any tips given.