the photoshop of video editing

NoobieOCer · 12 Jan 2011 at 21:11

what is the photoshop of the video editing world?

may be one that can easily do something similar to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjIjKT1QfQE&feature=channel

i really like how the words come in/out.

Benihana · 12 Jan 2011 at 21:12

Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere I imagine. Various others such as Sony Vegas etc..

geuben · 12 Jan 2011 at 21:14

Adobe After effects

asim18 · 12 Jan 2011 at 21:45

There's video editors, and there's special effects.

Video editors include:
Avid Media Composer
Adobe Premiere Pro
Final Cut Pro

After Effects is a special effects editor but you can probably do that type of stuff in any of these editors.

Aleksandrs · 12 Jan 2011 at 22:39

After Effects!

If you're into kinetic typography, which is what that is.. here is a video I made after using After Effects for about 2 months max, learning it at uni: http://vimeo.com/17526928

King Damager · 12 Jan 2011 at 23:12

Adobe Permiere Pro would be the obvious answer xD

Very powerful, but I find it harder to use than photoshop

:s

kd

gord · 13 Jan 2011 at 09:28

Aleksandrs said:
After Effects!

If you're into kinetic typography, which is what that is.. here is a video I made after using After Effects for about 2 months max, learning it at uni: http://vimeo.com/17526928

That's really nice! I might have to learn a bit of After Effects.

Aleksandrs · 13 Jan 2011 at 12:25

gord said:
That's really nice! I might have to learn a bit of After Effects.

Thanks!

It's easier to pick up than you might initially think, especially if you are already clued up with Photoshop.

anything I don't mind · 13 Jan 2011 at 12:53

my favourite for windows is adobe premiere but recently i found that corel has created a video editing software and it looks quiet good and i would guess a lot cheaper.

i tried avid but did not like. never tried final cut pro.

corel -> http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1175714228541

corel famous for corel draw etc.

NoobieOCer · 13 Jan 2011 at 13:36

i havn't played around with photoshop in agesss...... scince ... runescape LOL

last time i touched it....

watching a few youtube videos kinda feels like when i used to make gifs with..... i think it was called.... image ready?

well time to take a wack at it

gord · 13 Jan 2011 at 16:48

Aleksandrs said:
Thanks!

It's easier to pick up than you might initially think, especially if you are already clued up with Photoshop.

Indeed, I do like the Adobe suites, most of the tools and shortcuts cross over.

Just did this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhdbrsUpK3Y

cg-works · 13 Jan 2011 at 17:21

It's Flash, Photoshop and probably Premier. Flash will give you the words flashing easily in a timeline, and crisp too. Flash also incorporates audio to get your timing right. Photoshop images imported into Flash will give you the blurry words etc (pixel not Vector). Ideally you would want to import a video made with Photoshop and Flash into Premier - where you can add the audio and any other special effects you want. this way you can export from Premier using the adobe media encoder that creates a quality low file size youtube video - a .wmv. My suggestion is use Flash to create the video (because the vid is txt intensive and Flash is geared for that - it's easy!), and with the audio to get timing right, but ditch the audio in the final Flash video .mov render, cos you'll want to rather add audio in Premier - so you only get a second generation audio output. If you rip direct from Flash you're looking at a .flv, or a .mov, and without the treats available in Premier. My 2 cents

analog · 13 Jan 2011 at 18:12

cg-works said:
It's Flash, Photoshop and probably Premier. Flash will give you the words flashing easily in a timeline, and crisp too. Flash also incorporates audio to get your timing right. Photoshop images imported into Flash will give you the blurry words etc (pixel not Vector). Ideally you would want to import a video made with Photoshop and Flash into Premier - where you can add the audio and any other special effects you want. this way you can export from Premier using the adobe media encoder that creates a quality low file size youtube video - a .wmv. My suggestion is use Flash to create the video (because the vid is txt intensive and Flash is geared for that - it's easy!), and with the audio to get timing right, but ditch the audio in the final Flash video .mov render, cos you'll want to rather add audio in Premier - so you only get a second generation audio output. If you rip direct from Flash you're looking at a .flv, or a .mov, and without the treats available in Premier. My 2 cents

That seems massively overly complicated for something after effects can do quite easily all within one application. Not to mention animating in Flash is a pain compared to after effects.

I will echo most of the above in saying After Effects is what you want, its a massive application and kinetic typography is only scratching the surface.

To Gord and anyone else I'd recommend you check out [ur=[URL]http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/]Video[/URL] Copilot[/url] loads of good tutorials producing some amazing effects, some done to death now but they teach you some key principles.