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VLMC is a non-linear multitrack editor. It's based on VLC and inherits a pretty vast format compatibility from that. The UI is a little rough, but it gets the job done.
Lightworks is a more recent project and seems polished. It's rooted in broadcast editing, so a large number of familiar codecs are unsupported. It supports Matrox codecs, which you have to ...
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Allow me to edit out commercials anywhere in the video.
Any modern editor can do this (Adobe Premier, Sony Vegas, Final Cut etc) including light-weight (ex. Pinnacle Studio) and free editors.
After editing, it keeps the 5.1 Surround Sound.
Provided your original clip contains 5.1 channels and your editing environment is set up with (and can ...
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What you need is a sequencer that can also handle audio data, or an audio suite that also handles sequencing. Collectively, these programs are known as Digital Audio Workstations, commonly abbreviated DAWs. While the term "DAW" technically refers only to audio editing (waveforms), it's very common for a DAW to also support MIDI sequencing, or to be more of a ...
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Note that SyxEx data is, by its very nature, vendor specific. Supporting detailed SysEx editing would require custom work for each MIDI synth ever made. EMagic's Sounddriver did this, but was discontinued shortly after Apple bought EMagic.
You can accomplish a lot of MIDI and SysEx manipulation with Logic's environment, though it is awkward, poorly ...
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You can do a basic implementation manually in any daw:
Copy the track
Pan both tracks left and right respectively and symmetrically
The dry channel should be around 18dB louder than the Haas channel
Add a time delay of 13ms-~50ms to 'Haas' channel'
Be careful how much Haas you use, it affects the tonality of the track when summed to mono.
If you have ...
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After Effects is much more powerful than Motion when you get into advanced stuff like scripting your animations. After Effects is much more tolerant to large projects, and you can "precomp" different sequences (which is difficult to explain without you actually seeing it; basically allows you to put one timeline inside of another or reuse a specific portion ...
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I personally run Cinelerra CV and it's "mochup" Cinecutie on my Linux boxes.
Cinelerra (and it's relatives) can do some very sophisticated editing work, but they aren't the easiest to use. Luckily, there are lots of video tutorials out there to help you.
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You might want to see Wikipedia's Comparison of video editors and list of video editing software. From my personal experience I recommend Kdenlive over any others. It has good support for a wide range of non-linear video editing functions. If you are the real geek, you may want to try out Cinelera.
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The two products are pretty different. Cubase is a DAW whose primary purpose is to sequence MIDI and manage digital audio. Max/MSP, meanwhile, is a modular programming environment for audio. DAWs like Cubase tend to arrange things on tracks with a timeline, and offer the ability to effect, modify, and edit those tracks. Max has everything in little modules ...
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An example of a specialized software to record LPs and cassettes
LP Ripper (commercial):
Optional any software that can record the line input will do, for example:
Audacity (free) (see also this link for instructions on how-to)
GoldWave (shareware)
Record the whole side and then go in a chop up into segments, and save out.
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FFmpeg (wiki) is one option; you can achieve what you want either with the subtitles filter (see also here) or the drawtext filter.
The subtitles filter requires ffmpeg to be compiled with --enable-libass and drawtext requires it to be compiled with --enable-libfreetype. If you're on Linux, the former is fairly likely to be the case, though the latter may ...
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You appear to be trying to do both a produced podcast with individually recorded tracks with live broadcast features. Unless you have big budget and manage multi-tasking I would avoid doing both.
In order to play out Intros/outros, calls, liners and ads, you need a soundboard. Ambrosia SW make one for the Mac and the iPad ...
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LinuxAudio.org (check "Resources" link) for links; JACKaudio.org for JACK audio docs
Ardour is an excellent Linux DAW
Audacity is a very popular audio editor
PureData is an audio/MIDI/video Swiss Army knife (by authors of, influenced by MAX/MSP)
SooperLooper is a really cool looping sampler
Hydrogen is a good drum machine
Rosegarden is a good ...
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Go check Ubuntu Studio out.
But here's the problem: the JACK Audio system used with Linux is not intuitive. The software as a whole is buggy, lagging and offer little support. I've tried producing with Linux but it's really REALLY hard. There's a very community doing it, so everything about it is rather limited. There's no 'hardcore' producing tools for ...
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How to create music throughly inside computer, without using live instrument sounds? What do I need?
So you'll need samples or midi instruments, and a package to stitch these together.
I use Cubase or Sonar, but there are a range of free midi sequencers, synths and samplers you could use.
Get yourself a decent soundcard, and if you want good quality output, get one with external hardware (I would recommend something like the M-Audio range as being cheap ...
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The production group you refer to has a team of 20 guys ("no girls") and 40 computers. Do you think there is an open source for 20 CGI professionals and 40 computers too? This is a very real production company with a budget to get things done. They have created enough attention to fund the project 'Iron Sky'. No easy task.
What you are asking is like this, ...
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The very simple answer is yes - all these tools have open source equivalents...after a fashion. But they haven't had as much development, as there is less money going into them - so you may need to work out alternative ways to create some effects...
and that will take more time for skilled people - which costs more than using tools
So I reckon @filzilla ...
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Using Quicktime Player 7 you can export any movie file as an Image Sequence
Open your .mov file using Quicktime 7
File > Export
In the Export dropdown select Movie to Image Sequence
Open the options and set the export format (eg JPEG or PNG)
If you want just the current frame leave the frames per second blank. Otherwise, enter hte videos frame rate and ...
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Depending on what sorts of editing you want to do, you might be better off doing your audio editing within your video editor itself. I have used Premiere and Final Cut Pro, and both have fairly serviceable audio editing and effect processing support. For more detailed audio editing, Logic Studio has excellent support for editing audio with a reference video, ...
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Windows Live Movie Maker is a free app that can do both audio and video fades (both in and out). You probably already have this application installed on your computer, and if you need further help I would imagine you can find a number of YouTube tutorial videos.
Once you import your video, click on the Edit tab and you'll see the audio fades immediately.
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Apple's Logic software can accomplish this. From their manual:
Automatic Tempo Matching
The following audio files automatically match
the project tempo and will follow any tempo changes made in the global
Tempo track.
Audio recordings made in Logic Pro (7.0 and later)
For example, if you record a bass solo at 100 bpm, you can change ...
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With a 99% chance After Effects was used here.
As long as you plan on doing a commercial video I would avoid home video production programs like iMovie at all costs. Specially because iMovie is made for cutting video and not making animations. Thats like making a commercial in Windows Movie Maker.
There are many many talented freelancing After Effects ...
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Finding non-linear editors on a computer can be really hard. The linear approach in the old days was actually a forced limitation due to the restrictions you had with tapes. You needed to add clips successively. Sure, you could make an insert but at the risk of messing up the time-base and other things.
That being said - the non-linear/linear is not the ...
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I use both. Agree with all of the above for After Effects, I use it for any heavy lifting because Motion just drives you insane if you try anything too tricky with it.
The beauty of Motion is the way it is integrated into FCP. So I tend to use it for things like lower thirds or credits, because I can create "Master Templates" in Motion and import them into ...
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Kdenlive is rapidly becoming the most advanced Open Source video editor for Linux.
As a Windows user, you can download a live CD of Kdenlive. Burn it to a CD, and then it will boot up into a Linux system for you. Or, you could install Virtual Box on Windows (again, free software) and then install the live CD to that. This would allow you to simultaneously ...
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There is an Linux/Gnome based video editor called PiTiVi which is working close with the GStreamer multimedia framework which is used by most Linux distributions. The PiTiVi project has been slow moving because of their development philosophy which is "upstream first". Challenges they encounter in GStreamer means that they work with GStreamer to solve the ...
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I haven't tried chroma keying in Final Cut Express, but I'm pretty sure it depends on your needs and workflow. If you use Premiere for editing movies than AE should be more integrated.
Yet, if you really want to get awesome results and have some spare bucks, I'd say you look at some plugins. After all neither AE nor FCE is specialized in chroma keying. ...
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I think pretty much every editing program would allow you to zoom, pan and insert text. Inserting another video into the main video is a little more complex and the only program I know for sure that does it is After Effects. But I'm sure there are others that will.
I would suggest using Premiere because it's a very powerful program. Even though I've never ...
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Ableton Live can output MIDI notes/CCs pretty easily, so if you have visualization software that can use this to trigger visualizations, you should be set - you can just wire them togeter with some virtual-MIDI-port software (Bome's or OSX IAC or something like that).
Ableton also has some kind of MIDI Sync feature, although I hear it's fairly buggy. I've ...
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All of the pro video editors have a means of animating titles to some degree, some are better than others. I am only experienced with Sony Vegas Pro 10, but I have seen my colleagues use Adobe Premiere with Adobe After Effects to create some mind blowing 'dancing' titles. Vegas has plugins available to boost their basic package but the basic package can do ...
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