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Post by rota on Sept 2, 2009 3:02:43 GMT -5
Marsrocks is a video expert and must use some high end software that would be way over my head. I keep it simple and cheap and use Windows Movie Maker. It does all the simple things you need for a decent video but nothing like Marsrocks can do with his more sophisticated software. My Windows XP came with Movie Maker on it and it took some trial and error but its not to hard to figure out for a simpleton like myself. I only decided to put a few videos together after someone accused me of photoshopping the images. So I just got the main NASA images and zoomed in to the artifacts to prove they were on the main images.
As far as finding the images I just use Photoshop. I download the main NASA images and load them into Photoshop. I use the program to zoom in and if i find something interesting I hit "Print Screen" and put it in MS Paint to crop the picture down to the size I want and save it to the folder I want to store them in. Again its a simple solution for my simple mind.
One thing I have found when looking at the NASA images is if you find some interesting terrain and look at it then I always rotate it 180 degrees in Photoshop and look at it that way also because you will see things you didn't see from the original angle. Over half the things on the oribiter images, I found after rotating it 180. Of course you don't need to do that on the Rover images.
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Post by robertantilla on Sept 2, 2009 3:41:42 GMT -5
Thanks!
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Post by Marsrocks on Sept 3, 2009 9:20:58 GMT -5
rota, thanks for the complement, but I think amateur is a better word to describe me as far as videos go. I know very little actually. I use ZS4 for my videos, which you can download and use for free (although they accept donations) here: www.zs4.net/downloadsYou can also download virtual dub, which is very useful to make final edits after you finish outputting your video from zs4. It is also free software and available from a link at the same website. I usually use the ffdshow codec to compress the video in virtual dub when finished editing, as that brings the size down much smaller for upload to youtube. ZS4 has tutorials showing how to use it. To zoom and pan around still images, you'll want to follow this tutorial: www.zs4.net/tutorial-zoom-pan Before beginning with a Mars image though, I usually double the size of the image in my graphics program, so it won't pixellate on close-ups. Now that youtube has changed their video format size, I select the output size (in the "i" of the mixer channel) to be: 1280x720. I set my frame rate to 15 fps, which can look a little choppy, but gives you better quality images. Leave the quality setting at 0% when you export, or it will never finish the job. For sound, I was just using audio swap on youtube to add their music. But I am starting to pay more attention to sound, and I am trying audacity for that, which is also free software, and seems to be pretty good: audacity.sourceforge.net/
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