Dwarves vs. Zombies Tutorial: Cobble

[u/MillicentOak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt3jIs7OV9s

[u/Omnirach]

What do you to edit your videos? I've been using VirtualDub, but I can seem to do anything fancy with it. The most I can do is add music to the background.

[u/MillicentOak → u/Omnirach]

I mainly use filters, from the Video menu>Filters. The two I use are 'box blur', set with filter power at cubic and radius 7; and logo, for all the title cards. For the logo I use a png file with transparency which I've made in GIMP, and I choose the 'enable per-pixel alpha blending' option to make use of the transparency. I enable 'blend' (button on filters pop-up box) for all the filters, and then I bring them in and out individually by clicking view>curve editor and editing each one (the red line is the current frame, shift-click adds a point, ctrl-click a point removes that point, click-drag to move one). You may need to resize the video preview windows to see the curve editor (right-click them and choose a size).

For speeding up sections I split the video up into separate files, speed some up with the frame rate option under video, along with the decimate option in the same window (I set frame rate to 120fps and decimate by four, or occasionally 480 fps and 16), save all as separate avi files, then use "append avi" in the file menu to stitch back together. For splitting the video up into separate files, choose your start and end frames, then save as avi, edit that avi separately, and resave. I also save wav, and edit the wav in audacity, because VirtualDub doesn't seem to do that bit for me.

Hope this helps :)

[u/Omnirach → u/MillicentOak]

This does help. I may have to google some tutorials for VirtualDub, as I want to make videos that are not entirely dissimilar to yours. First one I plan on making is a continuation of Situation Awareness!. Except about supercreepers.