A good Video Editing Program

[dimava]

Hi, I'm thinking of making a movie, and I just need a program that will be able to take anything that is Bright Green, and make that transparent, Any Ideas?

P.S. I am willing to buy a program if it is less then $420


thanks


Dimava

[sail3005]

adobe Primere is good for me!

[dimava]

Thanks for your reply, does it have a ability to make any background transparent, as long as its the same color? and also, can I load a 3D senerio into it?

thanks

dimava

[parksie]

What 3D program are you using? The good ones can output an alpha channel for the backgrounds so you don't need chromakey.

[dimava]

Well I'm trying to learn 3D studio max, but its not comming along to good. Its to dam hard!

[parksie]

I think I'll agree with you on that one. 3DS really is supreme pro-quality software, I mean -- it comes with 3 manuals, which take up a large proportion of your shelf, huge hardback tomes.

In 3DS it automatically makes an alpha channel of any part of the image with no objects or environmental effects.

A good video editing program is Virtual Dub. It's free and easy to use. It even tells you advice (before you compile the movie) on how to reduce the size of the video.

http://www.virutaldub.com/
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualdub/

Pretty good program, supports a lot of movie types.

I had the pirated version of 3DS MAX 3 (yes that's right I did something illegal) and I thought it was just amazing. I heard it costs sh*tloads of money and I suck at it anyway (just making a cube or sphere was difficult at the time) so I decided to delete it.

Yea VirtualDub is a great program, what I like best about it is that its able to rebuild an output file without recompressing, saving on the final output quality. But too bad, don't think it can make colours transparent, unless you write a plug in for it (not sure if that kind of plugin is even possible!).

Don't think you'd really call VirtualDub a video editing program, more like a post processing program.

In my version of VirtualDub I can make colours transparent... I never realised it worked.

I suppose it isn't really a video editing program, but you can do so much stuff to the video (with all the plugins and stuff) like blur and watermark that if you fiddle around with it too much, the output looks nothing like the input. I do it all the time with videos I don't particularly like.

CoolEdit 2000 and VirtualDub combined... now that would be awesome. They could call it "CoolDub."

[dimava]

Thanks! is cool edit and virtual dub made by the same company?

Also, Can I download more plugins for it or is it just kinda of stand-alone?

also What company makes it?

You can download more plugins for VirtualDub, more make your own with an SDK you can download, but you'll need C background. VirtualDub was written by one person, Avery Lee and its here (http://www186.pair.com/vdub/index.html). There are links to plugins on the page as well.

Dreamlax, how did you make transparent colours in VirtualDub?

[dimava]

thanks, I dont seem to find an option to make things transparent either

unless you export frame by frame and make the transparency in some other program

I'm not sure if I did it in VD or not, I'm sure I made transparent colours in VD. I explored all the menus etc but found nothing.

Hmmmmm, could've been a plugin but I don't think so. I haven't used another video program, and I made a video with transparent colours. The only thing I can think of was the video codec had a buiilt in transparent colour feature. I recently had to format both of my hard drives so I lost all of the video codex and the only new one I've downloaded is the 'hacked' version of DivX (well that's what VD says anyway).

By the way dimava, Cool Edit and VirtualDub aren't made by the same people (bummer). Cool Edit isn't free either (bummer).

http://www.syntrillium.com/ for Cool Edit.