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This may be way over my head but I'm thinking of making a PC-based music video (if you must know, its for my old school annual dinner, my batchmates plan to present something hilarious). We think maybe we'd lipsync to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (don't laugh!!). We can get all the necessary hardware. Scouring the internet I figure we should have a 'non-linear editing' software to sync up the digital video footage that we'll be shooting ourselves to the music track. This is where I need guidance. Considering this may be a one-off thing we don't think we ought to spend too much on the software but has to be reasonably adequate for the project. Would also welcome suggestions on the choice of music (we're 50-something). We WANT to look ridiculous! Oh, we've got 6 months to do this.Thanks for any advice and suggestions. This will be fun, no?
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If you have a digital camcorder (one that supports 1394 Firewire) you’re half way home. All you need now is decent NLE software that can ‘capture – edit – convert – burn’.Capture – capture your filmed sequences to your pc’s hard disk. If your camcorder supports Firewire and you have a pc with a Firewire card ($50) your in like flint. If you only have access to an older analog VHS camcorder then you’ll need some sort of analog to digital converter capture device. Not terribly expensive but not needed if you have a digital camcorder.
Edit – once you’ve captured your filmed sequences you’ll want to edit them: trim segments, put segments in proper order, add transitions between segments, add titles and add\edit your audio. Sounds like a lot but newer NLE software makes this task almost fun. A previous post mentioned using Premiere or Vegas. Absolutely great products but they are both considered ‘pro-sumer’ level. Meaning they are really for the more advanced user (not Hollywood level just more than a beginner). They carry a bit of a learning curve. What I would suggest is Ulead’s consumer level product: VideoStudio 7 ( Ulead - Videostudio 7 ). Retail price is about $99 but if you know a student of teacher you can get it for about $50. This is an all-in-one package. It will do everything you need to produce your video. Two additional points about software:
1.You can do all that is needed by using free software available on the Internet. Products like Virtualdub and TMPGEnc are the standards for the free market. The catch is their power comes from the ability to customize parameters and this can be a little more than you want to get into. If not checkout dvdrhelp.com .
2.A word to the wise – STAY AWAY FROM PINNACLE STUDIO 8 . You’ve been warned.Convert – depending on what format you want to deliver the finished product, encoding will be important. To deliver on a standard cd you’ll encode to video cd (vcd) or super video cd (svcd). All you need is a standards cd burner in your pc and away you go. Again most of the consumer level and above products should be able to handle this process. If you want it to be in DVD format on DVD media then it must be encoded to MPEG-2. Again newer consumer level and above products can handle this.
Burn – record the finished product to the intended media (cd or DVD). The above-mentioned products should be able to handle this or something like Nero will work.
Long post but I hope it gets you started. For more independent info checkout:
dvdrhelp.com
www.videoguys.comGood luck.
> Scouring the internet I figure we should have a 'non-linear editing'
> software to sync up the digital video footage that we'll be shooting
> ourselves to the music track.You shouldn't have much problem. If you can find an older version of Adobe Premiere (5.5 or 6.0) or Sonic Foundry Vegas Video (2.0) for cheap (around $200), you'll be able to do everything that you need to do without much effort. Those are EXTREMELY capable editors that have a lot of bells and whistles you probably won't need to mess with. You don't even need something that elaborate as there are a ton of other home video editors out there... look around and see what you can find.
A decent speed PC (about 2GHz) would be a big help, but isn't absolutely necessary if you've got the time to render it all. What you will need is hard drive space. Video can use a TON of space, so a new hard drive might be in the budget as well. A 40GB will be enough, but you may want to get a bigger one if you can get a good deal.
About the only other thing you'll need is a video capture card. An ATI All-In-Wonder series card will do fine... Anything from the Radeon series (about $120-400 depending on which one) will do. There are also a lot of dedicated capture cards, but I don't have much experience with them. I will suggest avoiding any USB models as they routinely get complaints about lack of speed and dropped frames.
All told, you should be able to build an AV system for under $1000 even if you have to buy a brand new computer. Most likely you'll be able to do it all for under $300.
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