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Software for making a music video

ChillinBuzz	Date: November 23, 2007 @ 3:45 PM I'm looking at a few applications but they seem to cover only the final mixing, audio editing, etc. What I'm REALLY after is something that generates 3D shapes and special effects, like you get on really mental techno/trance songs of the 90s. I got plenty of drive space, memory and processing power so there's no limit to what I can try out in terms of programs. Does anyone know of any applications that will generate those types of effects and save them to the hard drive (file types are little issue, I can convert most formats to AVI and WMV as needed)... Oh and that reminds me, I want to splice audio to this video eventually, so a good editor (saves to AVI, MPG) is a bonus. cheers
NoRentJoseph	Date: November 24, 2007 @ 5:32 AM Vegas Video has a media Generator. and will save as AVI. Avid for Video. You most probably know that though.
NoRentJoseph	Date: November 24, 2007 @ 5:33 AM Acid for Video, Not Avid
ChillinBuzz	Date: November 24, 2007 @ 10:21 PM Acid for Video... will look out for that. Vegas Video has a media generator? In english?
leedsquietman	Date: November 24, 2007 @ 11:03 PM Vegas Pro 8 is a good audio and video program, albeit I don't think it is as chock full with fx as some other programs. Stuff by Magix and Pinnacle is less costly but still good. I believe Kit Rumble uses Pinnacle stuff and his videos look awesome.
Woof	Date: November 25, 2007 @ 12:13 AM If you're talking about what I think you are, Chill, there are several ways to go... most are prohibitively expensive. Programs like Maya, 3d Studio Max, and Lightwave are the top of the line... with price tags to boot. The good news, though, is that the essential tasks that these programs provide can be done at some level with a program called Bryce, with the option of using an additional program called Carrara. Both Bryce and Carrara are available from DAZ... Here's their url: http://www.daz3d.com/ I also found this old Bryce tutorial... you might want to look through how involved of a process this is, before taking the plunge: http://www.cadtutor.net/dd/bryce/anim/anim.html Even a simple animation has a lot of steps... so time and patience are definitely required.
pog	Date: November 25, 2007 @ 9:08 AM I was gonna suggest lightwave. http://www.lightwave3d.com and maybe a spectrogram http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/gram.html
ChillinBuzz	Date: November 25, 2007 @ 6:42 PM matters not how long it will take to make the video, i just want to throw something together for one of my songs. thank you for the links and suggestions... gonna have some fun with these.
ChillinBuzz	Date: November 25, 2007 @ 9:23 PM LightWave... will take me months to learn it's huge the spectrogram didn't save motion, just images. all that editing and merging... no ta!
fireball87	Date: November 26, 2007 @ 6:50 AM I also highly suggest using acid while making your music videos... almost all the good music video producers do... wait, were talking about software. Ignore that.
NoRentJoseph	Date: November 26, 2007 @ 1:05 PM
ChillinBuzz	Date: November 26, 2007 @ 10:03 PM I wish I could take acid but I've never remember how to operate the computer for the rest of the day. I'd probably end up thinking I was poking a giant blue marshmallow and wake up the next day having eaten my keyboard...
ChillinBuzz	Date: November 26, 2007 @ 10:04 PM But maybe my grammar and spelling would improve... like "I'd" not "I've". Doh