Software for creating music videos

[jchitty]

Hey, 53 and Gatorjj, thanks for all the information.....this is really going to help me. 53, I think that while a simpler style, the sausage dog video is a nice concept....like the world being viewed through a dog's eyes. This works as well as your other video. Nice job and another good song, btw. I love the harmonica there....you have an eclectic blend there, Americana, 80's and alternative all rolled into one Gator your daughter is adorable, and the song and her voice is really great.....what a talented young lady!

[twilsbach]

I've been a professional freelance video editor for ten years with credits in Independent film, national television and a ridiculous number of corporate video, (I'm even listed on IMDB, my 15 minutes of fame ) but I have yet to create a video for any of my bands or songs. I keep saying I'm gonna, but just never have. I should really get to it.As someone else said though, movie maker is probably the best bet if you're looking for a quick and easy learning curve on Windows. I'm a Final Cut Pro, Avid, & After Effects user and all of those are top-of-the line programs for what you want to do, but they all have a pretty steep learning curve, not to mention a prohibitively high price tag.Good luck and post the results!

[gatorjj]

Thanks Chits!

[billg]

Well, video editing is what I do for a living & have been at it since 1980 (1" tape, yikes I'm old!). I've used Final Cut, Avid, various others. For just starting out (and beyond) Newtek Speed Edit is fantastic. I've been editing a weekly cable sports show for the past 15yrs. & I started using speed edit when it came out a couple of years ago. It's so simple and FAST I was able to cut my time in half. It's cheap (under $500) but you have to have a pretty decent computer. Great program, self contained, easy to learn. PC (maybe MAC also now) Here's a link -http://www.newtek.com/speededit/

[jchitty]

Hey, thanks Bill and Tim....I'll check the link out!

[twilsbach]

Quote:Well, video editing is what I do for a living & have been at it since 1980 (1" tape, yikes I'm old!). My first full-time gig had a monstrosity of a 1" machine. Luckily I only worked there two weeks before they tore down the old edit bay and installed a spankin' new Avid Media Composer 9000.

[53mph]

jchitty,I took your advice and posted my music video on YouTube. It's only had 13 views in 3 weeks though. Anyone know how you can up your viewing figures? Is there a secret formula to tags etc...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNtY3h6OkrU

[twilsbach]

Hey 53, cool vid. I remember you posting that from some other site too, very cool.I dont' have any music vids posted, but I do have a few blogs, and some tv stuff I've donehttp://www.youtube.com/user/twilsbach

[neuphoria]

be very creative. Beck got a super-8 from a garage sale and shot every video for every song from his last album in his home using simple costumes and props for only a few hundred bucks. bjork shot a whole video, just her in a forest at night... the hook was it was shot in infrared (or nightvision goggle style) and her eyes looked reverse.... the guy who directed the Fatboy Slim video that won awards just used amateurs dancing outside a cinema... all very cheap, one good idea. a youtube video w/ 10+ million hits is someone who wrote lyrics on their fingers and moved them to the music. (Daft Punk's Harder Better Faster Stronger)use an ordinary digital camera, one that takes pictures and can do a bit of video. it's youtube, that's all you need. shoot 30 sec. of things-- clouds, water, people-- your hand writing the lyrics, your mouth singing, whatever. get a cheap editing program. (iLife with mac is free.) Or use Powerpoint, put photo stills in a presentation, but 'film it' with a screen grab program (Snapz is one) so it's an mpeg. Better-- if your computer has a built-in camera, sing into it while capturing video. Change costume, hair, do it 12 times, edit them together. (there must be a cheap--less than $100 editing program for PCs). If the idea is good enough, it won't matter how lo-tech it is, it could go viral. Even if the video isn't all that great (no 'why didn't i think of that?' factor) you'll still have something to hold eyeballs while the song plays. (I've seen some youtube vids of the song playing just with one static photo.) So string together creatively photos you've already taken into some story (child growing up; hair-style changes; landscapes; fast cars... whatever) by pulling the jpegs into that cheap editing (iLife or PC equivalent) software.Here's an example of a one-idea, clever no-cost video-- an alternate to filming/editing, etc:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ctM5o8pJs

[diogenes]

Hey just got into videos myself. Armed with a $200 JVC camera from Wal-Mart and Windows Moviemaker I made a video from my song "Man Overboard" I was pleased with the results and look forward to making many more. You can see it on my myspace at www.myspace.com/daxunplugged or you tube at www.youtube.com/haightriterecords It was pretty easy to do, that's saying something coming from me, I'm pretty much an idiot when it comes to computers.