First foray into some vid production stuff

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Submitted by megaspaz on Sun, 10/18/2009 - 06:50
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Well, my bro gave me this vid editing software call Final Cut Pro and this is the first thing to pop out of there. The footage is from the zoom zoom trackday at thill on 09.26.2009...

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I like the music . . works

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Submitted by Elwood1960 on Sun, 10/18/2009 - 21:21.

I like the music . . works well. Careful, this video stuff is addicting. (-;

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FCP foh sho

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Submitted by eternal05 on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 09:48.

Final Cut is savage...but video in general is just a royal pain in the ass. It's everything that can go wrong with computer stuff x100000: everything's proprietary, nothing's interoperable, things randomly just don't work, seemingly without explanation, and there's just so many damn minutiae to worry/learn about it makes me crazy sometimes.

Yet the result is always worth it :) Nice vid dude.

Domo!

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Submitted by Dagger on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 14:56.

A couple of years ago I had to edit a movie using FCP.. Found it to be a little frustrating and slow compared to what I'm used to but it got the job done. For the price though it can't be beat and a lot of shows here in LA are being edited with it now.

Nice job on the video.

I just want to make it out of this life alive...

Software Advice

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Submitted by eon on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 15:39.

Can anyone offer advice on how to get a Windows Movie up to YouTube without it looking like crap? I've finally got myself a GoPro and I made a little movie using the free MovieMaker software on Windows. That's ok for editing and makes a decent movie but when I transfer it to YouTube it compresses the hell out of it and it looks like crap. Unfortunately the MovieMaker software does not give many options when publishing :(

I also have an older MacMini that I successfully made a YouTube movie on at the beginning of the year. Can't remember what all my export settings were though. I might try and convert my movie using that. Really don't want to have to do all the editing again (plus my MacMini is a slug compared to my laptop).

I will even consider buying some software for my PC if that is the easiest route. Nothing too expensive though. Or do any of the other video hosting sites handle WMV files ok?

I always use . .hmm . . mpeg

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Submitted by Elwood1960 on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 15:48.

I always use . .hmm . . mpeg 2? 4? Whatever, U Tube does lower the resolution a tad.
I like the go pro . . cool camera. One day I am going to just put it on a tripod and do some time laps stuff with it. (-;

2006 Harley Davidson Dyna Wide Glide
http://americanlibertyriders.ning.com/
http://www.meetup.com/Sons-Of-Liberty-Riders/

Well, after playing around

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Submitted by eon on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 17:01.

Well, after playing around with various conversion programs (which all resulted in crap) I went back to my original utube upload and it now looks good! Not sure if that's because I've spent so long looking at grainy conversions or if uTube did some overnight clean up of it. I suspect the latter. I've noticed they do conversions behind the scenes at times. So anyway, I'll post it up.

You're right

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Submitted by eternal05 on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 23:28.

YouTube will optimize the quality after it's already been published, just so they can get a version of your video out there asap. To answer your other implicit question:

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=132460&topic=...