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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Two questions: laser bolts and editing]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Welcome to BiM!
Adobe After Effects does amazing effects, simply amazing, and it does effects on the video, and not frame by frame. But the price tag is fairly high. The cheapest way of doing effects would be going frame-by-frame with something like GIMP or Photoshop. GIMP is the free one, so I recommend that. [url=http://www.bricksinmotion.com/resources/view/70/]And here's how.[/url]
It's pretty easy, but really time consuming.

For editing software, I highly recommend Sony Vegas, it's not free, but still fairly cheap. [url=http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Studio-Platinum-Production-Version/dp/B0051M6IPI](See here)[/url]
It's got most everything you'll need for editing, and it's not that hard to learn.

Also, if you can't decide, try searching through the forums a bit. That usually helps with advice and comparisons.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Two questions: laser bolts and editing]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Im planning out my first star wars film (comedy) but ive never done any sort of special effects - ever.  Im researching the best way to get glowing laser bolts to zip across the screen.  Everyone raves about Adobe After Effects but will it do lasers and will that work with full speed motion or does it take video and force you to apply effects frame by frame?  If it does frame by frame then i may as well use paint.net for free and draw in my glowing bolts that way.

My second question is about editing software.  I use Windows Movie Maker (oh, the shame) which i like because its very easy to drag/drop, sync and trim.  I dont need to explain the shortfalls - they are well known.

I know there is a list of free and excellent editing software in this forum but im looking for a personal endorsement on one or two of them so i dont need to download half the internet to find "the one".

So my questions are, what program can do lasers easiest and which editor do you use?

When i have a draft script ready ill share for critique and call for two voice actors.  :). Thx]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 23:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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