Zero Budget Computer Effects

[mongolianape]

ear rape

[ZombieGorePrincess]

5GB? HA! I have an 8GB memory card I use in my digital camera. This reminds me of something I saw around the same time, (early 2000's) back when the first Gen. iPod came out, and there was this hack where if you took it apart you could use the memory card in it in a DSLR camera and have a few hundred photos....I think like 800 or so...and that was somehow amazing, since there where no memory cards for DSLRs that high at the time, but impractical since iPods where so expensive then.

[golfthewlis]

@ZombieGorePrincess

Yes it is woefully out of date. Consider this tip an historical artifact.

[TheCleardeath]

lmaoooo 5 gb thats lol! lmaoooooo im gonna have a huge laugh

[kimonui]

I.... can use a... comPUUUter?!

[jaysuscrust]

How old?

[ned316]

5gb? damn i only have 500gb

[Tomsavini666]

HOLY SHIT WHEN WAS THIS VIDEO MADE? 64MEGS of RAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! and a 5GB HDD HOLY I DOWNLOAD SHIT 4 TIMES THAT SIZE!!!! lol I just thinks its funny when the specs started that was not at all what I was expecting to hear

[golfthewlis]

@Tomsavini666 This vid was made in 2000. Needless to say we have better computers now.

[Ryan4326]

lol the video is still cheesy XD!!

[THREEYOUNGDUDES]

for bein filmakers you really should use a mic dudes....

[fireboot1]

@THREEYOUNGDUDES that was the entire point of the vid to learn chow to use a computer to edit so it wont be so bad

[Barst89]

classic!

[ACDC4416]

I don't know which special effects editing software I should use. I need one one thats free or REALLY cheap. Which should I use?

[c0nzo12]

sony vegas movie editor, its only about £30 (convert that into whatever currency you mexicans use.) and its quite professional. its what you'd normally find for about £100.

[ACDC4416]

lol i'm not mexican. That was just a joke. I'm from the U.S. but thanks

[irreverentmoose]

I've heard good things about wax; that's free.

[Maxsopinion]

invest in a good one that you can use for a long time

[95bradders95]

@ACDC4416 sony vegas movie studios cheap

[tomcatf]

what effects software

[thegentilehunter]

266mhz lol british ppl are so poor

[golfthewlis]

Hey, that computer cost 2000 quid when that film was made!

[cyclopsmonkee]

5gb hard drive?! Holy shit this is old!

[MADDKNOCKER]

Does anyone know if this video card is good for film editing? I bought a GIGABYTE GV-NX88T512HPV1 GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

[anvilsalesman]

do video cards even matter for video editing? i thought the CPU did all the heavy duty computer grinding, the graphics card just deals with the out video that goes to your monitor.

[whowantsabighug]

what aboout playing cards?

[bikesaresick]

graphic cards matter a lot

[Griff666]

hahaha your computer sucks :).

2x dual core 3 ghz processors w00t!

[GrandValleyFilms]

How can I edit a VHS-C on a computer?

[GoneWrongStudios]

What editing program do you recomend to use? Better if for free.

[GoneWrongStudios]

Thank you very much, your tips have been of much help golthewlis!

The running over a dummy, I´ll try to do it and thanks for te answer, I´ll try to find that analogue thing you told me!

[GoneWrongStudios]

How can I edit a VHS-C on a computer?

[golfthewlis]

you need an analogue capture card that can take a composite or s-video input. They're dirt cheap on ebay these days. Back in the day I used something called a FAST AV Master. Then once the footage is captured use any video editing app to edit it.

[Tasselhof]

Here I expected some program reccomendations....you can edit with a vcr?

[golfthewlis]

Title should read: A demonstration of how any cheap computer can be used to make your film better.

And yes, you can edit with VCRs. It's what we had to do when the computers weren't good enough or cheap enough to make movies on.

[mcmilbc]

the first video was better

[kevinofark]

haha, no problem, what's the specs of the computer you use now?

[golfthewlis]

It's a Matrox RT.X2 Core2 Duo System from Digital Video Computing. dvc dot uk dot com. It can handle HD which is nice.

[kevinofark]

how on earth did u edit that on that computer? 5 gigs is next to nothing....clearly u are gods

[golfthewlis]

How time flies... that DIY was made in 2000 or thereabouts, when 8gb hard drives were still pretty expensive. The computer had a FAST AV Master MJPEG capture card that compressed the video as it came in. We didn't have firewire or anything, just s-video. Thanks for the props!

[cargodudeMT]

u didn't answer his question...he meant what program did u use? and all of these are "zero budget" but you are probablly using Adobe After Effects...which is not free, and not even cheap. it is very expensive.

[DDFilmCo]

great vid but the beginning titles in all these are way too long.

[JackRussellTerrier2]

The cyberman doesn't want to die, but do robots really die or do they just stop working.

I wonder what sort of editing software they were using?

[JackRussellTerrier2]

Oops, I just spotted the thread that said what it was, sorry.

[Gogeta0110]

Have you never watched Red Dwarf?

All robots/mechanical items go to silicon heaven :D

[JackRussellTerrier2]

Not since it was on public television my friend.

[Capitallog]

what editing software did you use ???

[golfthewlis]

That was edited on a PC using Ulead Mediastudio pro -a very old version. This film was made 7 years ago and the computer specs are looking very dated. For sound editing I used (and still use) Cooledit.

[Cheginator]

Wow, I'm just going to comment in awe at every single one of your zero budget films, they're so inspiring! How long did it take you to make something like this? What video editing software do you use?

[FallenMessiah]

good one!

[VicWalsh]

Lool v gd