wilhelm scream said:
Before you even start to ask technical questions, get an editing software (I use Sony Vegas), then we can start talking about fan-editing.
Yeah, I'd probably ignore that "advice" and anything else wilhelm scream says about "technical questions".
I'll try to brief with these answers...
cubbyguy1 said:
Can someone point me to some helpful guides whether on the forums here or elsewhere for getting started?
Check the technical forum guides, or youtube "How to" videos can come in very handy.
cubbyguy1 said:
I am wondering about are how to separate music/dialogue so that one can go about removing/inserting new audio
"Ay, there's the rub" If there was a way to do that easily, we'd all love to hear about it.
If you are lucky a movie will have center surround channel with relatively clean dialogue (or at least it's very much louder than everything else). Then that can mixed with the CD soundtrack and new FX to create new audio. Audio editing is the hardest part of this hobby. Most people want to start off with a project that doesn't include replacing audio and just crossfading existing audio. I'd recommend having a go with that first.
By the way, the Star Wars film do not feature clean center channel audio, the music is loud in all channels, on all SW films.
cubbyguy1 said:
changing aspect ratios (if possible)
Pictures are best to describe this...
aspect ratio (AR) must be maintained even when cropping, never stretch or squash an image.
cubbyguy1 said:
I know some things take time to learn and money to afford software.
Everybody is always learning in this game but yes some good software is worth it. Vegas, Premiere etc. I prefer Vegas myself.
cubbyguy1 said:
My guess is I am the most inexperienced person here
I doubt it, you at least know the questions
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