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[radioheadrule83]

I'm editing together footage of the Wind Waker I've painstakingly captured, and putting it to some music.... over 5 and a half minutes, it should encompass everything great about the entire game and it's story, and have fitting dramatic music behind it all... but I'm having really annoying problems.

I don't have Adobe Premiere or Final Cut on this machine, and I'd like to avoid the diskspace-consuming task of putting either on it. So I've been using Windows XP Movie Maker... I've done a good 2 and a half minutes, and now I keep getting freezes and it takes forever to play/preview what I've done when I've added effects/transitions. I thought it might be codec problems, so I've virtualdub'd and Tmpgenc'd every movie, with different codec combinations to test that theory out... it's not the codecs, its that the program is crap. There is no indication that the machine is rendering, and it would have done well to have a seperate render function like the other programs do... instead, every time you hit play, you get your little timer, the computer goes nuts for a while and then any movement is greeted with "Not Responding".

I've tried upgrading to XP Service Pack 2 so I get Movie Maker 2.1, but it's still bollocks. Can anyone recommend any good video editing software? Or shall I just throw one of those on?

 

[AzN_F15h]

yeah i have the same question too......does anyone know any good video edition software??

 

[Mason]

Windows Movie Maker always worked great for me. If this is the only video editing project you're doing, it's probably not worth it to spend the cash for any of the big programs. Maybe you could download a demo of Premiere or something. If you've already got all the captured footage on your computer, you're over the hill. The program isn't quite as big as you think it is.

EDIT: Here are three freeware video editing programs (I've only used VirtualDub briefly, but I wasn't too fond of it simply because WMM worked better for my purposes):

- Virtual Dub

- Zwei-Stein

- ABC VideoRoll

- Adobe Premiere Pro Trial

 

[Patrick Klepek]

pay...for..premiere..HOOHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[Richiban]

I love AVID and Ulead Media Studio 7.1

You can't go wrong with either.

 

[goodcow]

Just get Premiere Pro.

 

[musicplustv]

I agree, Premiere Pro.

 

[alejob]

How about free software? I want to edit avi, divx and mpg files. Just cut parts out and put some parts together is what I need.

 

[pnjtony]

yeah, I just downloaded premiere pro. works great so far...uncompressed video of that size will take up a good 1.5 GB though before using divx or xvid. Make sure you got a lot.