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Considering trying my hand (demos/budget question)

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Howdy! I'm interested in making a Mummy Returns edit, and have a few minor concerns: have I got the computing know-how (I've done iMovie, Photoshop and Audacity stuff, but that's about it), have I got the computer (1.5 processor, 504 MB RAM, 25 GB space), have I got the time and have I got the dough. I understand from ADigitalMan's Guide that, provided I finish my stuff in 30 days, I could get this done for free?

On the technical hairiness side, I only intend to use one "official" video source (the film), though I would like to add AVIs of "aged" intertitles created on Windows Moviemaker.

I'm probably in way over my head, but am curious as to whether it'd be possible to do this without buying any $60+ software that may be too hard to use.

Thanks!
 

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The freeware and demo route is possible, but difficult.
Windows Movie Maker is a no-go (quality-wise).
What do you mean with "aged" intertitles?
25GB of space is not much and your computer power is rather very low. If you have to encode, you will wait an eternity until it is finished. But of course fanediting is possible on such a system.
 

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Hm... perhaps I'll wait for the academic new year, where I'll have a techie neighbor, to continue my considerings... as for Movie Maker, I only meant making intertitles such as these in jpeg format, then giving them some warps and scratches on Movie Maker. Just some little inserts for the actual project...
 

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gaith1,
if it helps you, I am on a 1.8ghz with 1.5 gigs of ram (had 2 gigs but one chip died) and i have done a few edits. Depending on software and what you are doing it may not take as long as you might think. Using tmpg to encode (slowest encode setting) it can take me anywhere from 10 16 hours depending on lenth of film and what has to be done.
So it is not that bad
 

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Thanks for the input, both of you. Especially since I'm running 1/3 of your processor speed, Tranzor, I think I'll wait for the fall.

I just watched "Attack of the Phantom", which was awesome, but I was disappointed to find it somewhat blurrier than the original dvd, especially in certain scenes. Maybe I'm being naive, having only edited Quicktime clips where quality loss is negligible to nonexistent, but I would have thought full-resolution edits possibile (and assume the Phantom Editor's stuff is top of the line). Is this not the case?

Thanks!
 
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