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Scooby, originally uploaded by scoobymode.A wonderful article on "How to Make Movies" by our dear friend Scoob:
This is for the people who are interested in making movies/machinima/films or any type of video, and I will attempt to explain to everyone how to make A video.
(More from Scoobie plus important links after the jump!!)
First off you need some type of recording software to record you're footage you shoot, there are several softwares you can find some of the names include camtasia, Fraps, Hypercam and others. I suggest FRAPS if you can get it for free or buy it. fraps runs at a 29.0 FPS meaning it runs an average speed with no lag. it isnt fast or isnt slow its average speed for recording. I use fraps.
Next up you will need A movie editor to edit the film or footage you have recorded, and there are lots of editors out there to choose from. There are three big names to look into tho however, the names are Windows Moviemaker (The most basic and simple one, and less time draining) Sony Vegas Pro ( Fairly simple lots of cool features, and effects, also comes with A recorder to record you're own voice)
Then you have Adobe Premiere and Adobe After effects, with After effects being the better you can( do so much with after effects
you can turn anything into 3d mold it shape a video in any way you can imagine, real movies you watch on tv some of them are made and edited on after effects. After effects is the most complicated but if you want to be the best then i suggest get that.
Im sure you can get any of these movie editors free if you look around, however windows moviemaker is free so i suggest give it a try first.
I use Adobe after effects, but some times use the windows movie maker and sony vegas. If you can try to get sony vegas as it is easy like movie maker but has lots and lots of more cool feautres, and tricks.
So you have A recording software and A editor, where to start? first off you will want to open up Fraps if you have fraps lets assume you have that. f9 is the hot key meaning you press f9 it starts to record, then press f9 again it stops.
You can record a clip for 10 mins, before it starts a new clip. I usually start recording a pose then stop it, and start the next pose so it is easy to find.
So you got you're footage now you wish to edit. Ok with any of the footage you have recorded it will be saved in you're fraps folder in the movies folder. what you want to do is, open up you're movie editor, Moviemaker/sony vegas/adobe. Then simply import you're movies in or you're video that you have recorded. You can however drag you're video to you're editor by simply left clicking the video in you're fraps, holding down the left click as you drag it to the timeline. after you import it and drag it to you're time frame or time line. you will see the video there along with the audio of the video.
You can simply turn down the audio if you have sony vegas, using sliders to the left. and with movie maker you can click the little + sign to the left. to show the audio line, and you can right click then just simply mute audio so you can add you're own music, or whatever.
When editing videos, you usually will be on the timeline dragging/ cutting /splitting you're video alot. so you place you're cursor in the middle of the video on the time line, you decide you dont want the next have you can just go to edit then split the video into two parts then right click and delete the part you want out. and there is A part dont like in the middle here is how it works let me give a little example.
ok lets say i have a video there is one part of the video i dont like, i will just simply go to that part just about 1 second past it or before it. but lets say "past it" there should be A little arrow if you hover you're arrow to the very end of the split part. you can drag or pull back the til you take off all the bad part you dont want then drag the after part back to connect with the first part. So what i am saying is you are going to be dragging you're video back alot and dragging each clip you place on the time line. you can drag clip after clip on a timeline. sony vegas lets you drag them on like 7 or 8 lines where movie maker you can only do it on one or two. But the thing is you can put footage after footage video after video on one timeline but then you will have to do alot of splitting and dragging.
Ok so now you want to add audio you can simply drag you're music to the time lines as well on audio tracks for movie maker or just any timeline with sony vegas. when you get the audio and video edit all you have to do now is render you're video or publish it. into a movie.
AVI is the biggest size for you're computer and will not work for naughty machinimas 200 MB setting. so with that said you will have to make it WMV. which is A low sized video stands for windows media video aka WMV. there are lots of other options but WMV is the best. so after you render it you now have made a video and can upload that video somewhere for people to watch.
There are two other important softwares you should get they are free and help.
The first one is download helper it is a firefox extension it is free, you search for download helper and get it. this lets you download any video you possibly want from any place such as redtube, youtube, naughty machinima even just any where you want. you usually have to go to tools in the top of you're firefox then down to download helper and down to the media on the right and click on media and pick the video or number and download it. download helper only downloads it to FLV. tho unless you buy the whole thing, but yes it will be an FLV so you will need to download the next software.
Free FLV converter from Cnet.com so type in Cnet.com and type in free flv converter or just flv converter. and install it. with flv converter you judt open it up and select convertion from flv at the top. And you then choose the FLV file you downloaded
with download helper i got mine saved on desktop so its easy to find them then you just select you're flv video and convert it which onlyes takes a few mins. Note: this does convert the flv to avi movie which is a big size so you will have to add it in a movie editor make it wmv or whatever.
i use these two softwares to get audio i may need like porn sounds so i download a porno with download helper, and use free flv converter to make it an avi movie then i put the movie aka the porno movie in my editor and just make it an audio aka a mp3. then i import the mp3 audio with the movie i am working on. you can download music with download helper from youtube its whatever you want i am just saying i use it mainly to get an audio. mostly porn sounds, and i download my favorite naughty machinma videos sometimes.
so there you have it a good basic instruction on how to make a video. if you need more help please just watch a youtube video, it will teach you also.
LINKS
Download helper
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Free flv converter
http://download.cnet.com/Koyote-Free-FLV-Converter/3000-2194_4-10832044.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody;1d
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