MovieDV 6

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Hi PapaJohn,

Well, I have gone and bought the above, its two levels above the paid for
version of the free MovieXone. I have been playing with all afternoon and
not really scratched the surface of what it can do. I bought it based on
the "What's New" section on their web page....thinking that those features
alone were pretty good...of course I had not stopped to consider what it
had got already. Well for example...it has around 250 transitions, all of
which have editable parameters. You can use it to covert your work into
.mpeg, .avi, animated gif, .ra, .mov and one other...can't remember name

For those task's that it has in common with MM2, text on video etc., its
about the same speed when rendering to "Normal", but when you switch to
highest its maybe 2/3 of the speed and of course the resulting file is
larger. Overall its a bit slow, but it is rendering dynamically changing
effects. You would not really want to produce a whole 1 hour of video with
loads of effects in it...it would tie your machine up for potentially days.
The results would be good though.

It has some editors that I have not looked at yet (to do with designing
your own effects I think) and a rather neat ability of converting your work
into a screen saver, which is quite neat ... already made one!! It has the
ability of removing the background from any video, providing you have
another video that does not contain that part which you wish to retain, a
person for example. You can then put in behind that a video of some other
location. Just the way you see things done on TV. It also has the ability
to make backdrops which you can configure....Clouds in a Blue Sky for
example .... there are several other base types all of which can be edited.

So for the "day to day" stuff I will continue using MM2, its hard to best
it in the functions it has and its interface is easy...MovieDV 6 is quite
hard...I am reaching the point where I don't want to throw it out of the
window any more :) Its written by someone who has a passion for a facility
that should have been thrown out years ago by Microsoft...the MDI or
Multiple Document Interface...the author has gone over the top with it.
 
Hi John,

Finally got around to this post. I think that the more tools you have in
your toolkit, the easier it is to pick one that works for a particular task.

I have fond memories of using MovieXone to get me out of a situation with a
WMV file. Movie Maker wouldn't import the file, telling me there was
something wrong with it. I ended up importing it into MovieXone and then
saving it as a DV-AVI file so I could continue using it in Movie Maker.

That was in the olden days, with MM1.

Good luck with it,

PapaJohn

John Kelly said:
Hi PapaJohn,

Well, I have gone and bought the above, its two levels above the paid for
version of the free MovieXone. I have been playing with all afternoon and
not really scratched the surface of what it can do. I bought it based on
the "What's New" section on their web page....thinking that those features
alone were pretty good...of course I had not stopped to consider what it
had got already. Well for example...it has around 250 transitions, all of
which have editable parameters. You can use it to covert your work into
.mpeg, .avi, animated gif, .ra, .mov and one other...can't remember name

For those task's that it has in common with MM2, text on video etc., its
about the same speed when rendering to "Normal", but when you switch to
highest its maybe 2/3 of the speed and of course the resulting file is
larger. Overall its a bit slow, but it is rendering dynamically changing
effects. You would not really want to produce a whole 1 hour of video with
loads of effects in it...it would tie your machine up for potentially days.
The results would be good though.

It has some editors that I have not looked at yet (to do with designing
your own effects I think) and a rather neat ability of converting your work
into a screen saver, which is quite neat ... already made one!! It has the
ability of removing the background from any video, providing you have
another video that does not contain that part which you wish to retain, a
person for example. You can then put in behind that a video of some other
location. Just the way you see things done on TV. It also has the ability
to make backdrops which you can configure....Clouds in a Blue Sky for
example .... there are several other base types all of which can be edited.

So for the "day to day" stuff I will continue using MM2, its hard to best
it in the functions it has and its interface is easy...MovieDV 6 is quite
hard...I am reaching the point where I don't want to throw it out of the
window any more :) Its written by someone who has a passion for a facility
that should have been thrown out years ago by Microsoft...the MDI or
Multiple Document Interface...the author has gone over the top with it.
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Hi PapaJohn,

Would you believe that they shipped version 6 with the help file for
version 4 ? I have also found a couple of things that actually do nothing
at all, at least as far as I can tell, that's how I discovered that the
help file is out of date. The help file did help though, I imported an hour
of video and found that the audio track was roughly a third longer than the
video, and when played it was way to slow. It turned out that it was to do
with the "A" and "B" frames being dealt with in the wrong order...I got
that from the help file. It is slow work..its nowhere as easy as MM2.
 
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