Video Editing

[Nic]

Firstly I need a good video editing software which is better than Windows Movie Maker but isn't so advanced a n00b like me can't use it. Secondly does anyone know of any .AVI compressors? Do they even exist??

 

[stinkfing3r]

you looking for a compressor that converts it? or stays avi? i use dvd santa to compress into a format that i can then burn onto dvd wit dvdshrink.

 

[Nic]

No I want to keep the file as an .avi but i want to make it smaller

 

[Waffle]

Do what I told you about 3 times :P

When you create the movie and go to save it, specify to save it under a given file size and it will crop the size and quality automatically to get to that desired size.

 

[Nic]

I'm not using windows movie maker though.
Is it possible to make a .avi instead of .wmv in movie maker?

 

[Waffle]

ah my bad.

here is a convertor but i think its only a trial or something.

http://www.filetrial.com/convert/wmatoavi.html

 

[ninja fetus]

very hard to find a free converter.

try this http://ndub.sourceforge.net/ (if in linux)
Windows - I don't know of many free video editors unless you wanna pay.

 

[Thunderfm]

I'm currently using an Adobe editing system of Premier, After effects and Encore. Admittedly this is a very expensive combination :good: But Adobe has brought out Premier Elements which I have read some very good reveiws about. If you have been using movie maker for a while now I think elements would be a good step forward.

Cheers

 

[Nic]

Thanks for the advice mate. Ill look into it.

 

[syngod]

What type of content are you trying to compress (DVD, Raw video from a camcorder, etc.) and what are you planning on using it for (Web, archiving to cd/dvd)?

Depending on the sources and how you want to use the outputted video there are quite a few different choices. Right now compression to quality size I'd probably reccomend DIVX 6, I've been playing with it for a couple days now and it's actually beating MS"s and Quicktimes quality for compressing video.