Making your own video review show

Hi i was considering doing my own movie review but how do i cut bits of the movie into the review and what program can i use?

Assuming you have Windows, Live Movie Maker is free, and about the best thing you can start out with. I'm currently using Stupeflix to do my review stuffs, (PIMMMMPP!) but know that if you go that route, you need to either plunk down money, or live with a minute long video and a watermark in the bottom right corner, but the TTS is worth it due to the ease of editing.

edited 27th Jan '12 10:41:17 PM by moocow1452

I recommend downloading WMM 2.6 as, weirdly, Live Movie Maker seems more limited. Beware, if you try to use too many edits on a movie longer than 15 or so minutes, it will freeze up and not save your movie file. Best to edit it in 10-ish minute chunks and then re-edit those together. I also use Virtualdub for more complex stuff (image overlays, etc.). Of course, you’ll also want Audacity or some other audio editor and some sort of program to transcode video files.

There’s some freeware program people have been recommending as an alternative to WMM, but I forget what it’s called. Tarantula, or something like that.

Live is definitely the easier software to tame, but people have found out how to get Vista's version of Movie Maker onto Windows 7, which was easily the best thing about that edsel of a OS.

http://movies.blainesville.com/2010/05/installing-windows-movie-maker-60-on.html

I used Windows Live Movie Maker for a few videos when I moved to Windows 7 but really didn't get on with it. Theoretically it's a better piece of software than old-school Movie Maker, but I just found it annoying to use and moved back to WMM 2.6 as you say. I'd probably look at using something more advanced if my videos themselves were longer or more complex, but WMM suffices for now.