music video

[Joey]

i want to make my own music video. i havent the slightest clue how to. is there a program or something? could someone help me out?

[Nailhead]

Let's see there's Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Media Studio Pro. I personally like Final Cut Pro, but it's only for Mac so I'd suggest using Premiere.

You could try going to videomaker.com and reading some FAQs about videography.

Music Videos are really fun to do. Check out one I did to a Nine Inch Nails song, "Down in it". I didn't use any of the software that I mentioned though, this was back in '94 before all that stuff. If you watch it, I'm the guy with the long black hair.

and if you still have some time to kill, check out one of my short films, "House of Ninjas". (it's pretty cheesy, but don't say I didn't warn ya)

[Joey]

ok thanx. but are those free to download? i wanted a free program. ill see if any are free.

[Joey]

im downloading a trial of adobe premier. THANK NICK!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Nailhead]

Yeah they should all have free trials for download, but if you wanted a completely free editor. There's Zwei-Stein, FadeToBlack, and ABC VideoRoll. Don't expect much from these though, they are nowhere near the quality and functionality of the commercial ones.

[Joey]

oh ok. well ill just use the trials for now.

[Joey]

ok. i made a short video. i made it with premier. how do i save it to a .mov file or something? do i actually need a camera? please someone tell me quickly if i can just save it as a .mov or .mpg or something.

[mr-t]

You will need a codec. Get one off KaZaA or something.

[smartguy240]

I dontknow if this is related...but look at my DVIX->DVD thing... I know that DVIX players use codecs... Maybe you can put your video on a DVD.


SMG240

[Joey]

no i figured it out. nailhead showed me. but now i have a big problem. i extracted the movie as a dv avi or something. the clip is only like 30 seconds, but it is 100meg!!!! how can this be. there is a 3 minute clip thats only 25 meg. i dont get it. i must be doing something wrong. nailhead, help me please!!!


other than the size, it works great!!! ;D ;D

[Nailhead]

The reason that the file is so big is because it's high quality. Try using more compression, which will result in less quality. One trick is to reduce the sound quality as well. Try setting the sound to 22Khz Mono.

[mr-t]

DIVX it if you can. (30 minutes of quality video = 90 meg?!?)

[Joey]

thanx for the help guys.

[smartguy240]

So in your video are you singing and playing the guitar?

SMG240