Visualz

[pencilface]

Does anyone on here put together visuals/loops to project whilst DJing?

I want to put together a selection of crazed film clips to show at various Hellfire Video Club things… but am having great trouble (or, more likely, being a great spastic) in doing so… seems like it should be a simple thing?

Anyone use any specific programmes (free and available for Mac) that can snip scenes out of films? I've tried "iDealshae Video" and "isjysoft Video converter" but hit a wall with both.

Any help much appreciated...

[Cacapo]

http://www.modul8.ch/

this is easy and fun.

[Cacapo]

and for the cutting bit I found this the one thats the most accessible.

http://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/

[Striker]

If you're on a mac & don't need to worry about audio, you can play the video on your desktop with VLC (or whatever you use other than Quicktime) & use Quicktime to record the window for the scene you want to use & then trim it.

You should be able to do all this without upgrading to Quicktime Pro or whatever it's called so it should be free & ready to go.

[pencilface]

Great tips guys, cheers. Will check them out this week.

[Chris Airplays]

Did you get imovie with your mac? I think it comes installed on all machines. If so you can just google what you need to do and use that. They'll definitely be a weirdo on youtube with an informative video.

[DRSMITH]

Imovie. Import and cut up to your hearts delight.

[pencilface]

Imovie. Import and cut up to your hearts delight.

That was my first thought, but can't import avi files (i think?). Which all my ones are....

[No, LordNo]

That was my first thought, but can't import avi files (i think?). Which all my ones are....

Download Mpegstreamclip (it's free) and convert your .avi into .mov or whatever. Voila.

[pencilface]

Thanks fopr all suggestions so far.

MpegStreamclip doesn't seem to work for me - all avi films i put in are just a blank/grey screen (?)

I'm currently transferring AVI films into MP4's so i can do it in iMovie - problem is opening the whole films in iMovie is taking forever (daft seeing as i'm only taking a minute of two from each film!)

There must be somewhere I can just convert a small section on the files into MPEGs to stop all this madness!!!

Any other ideas?

[Striker]

The thing I suggested is proper easy. I can do a sweet tutorial for you if you want?

[No, LordNo]

MpegStreamclip doesn't seem to work for me - all avi films i put in are just a blank/grey screen (?)

Weird. I tried it before suggesting it to you and it worked for me.

.avis work fine in FCP, but I guess you don't have it...

just google around for a 'video conversion software free download', one of mpegstremclip's competitors must have something that'll work for you.

[pencilface]

The thing I suggested is proper easy. I can do a sweet tutorial for you if you want?

Yeah, sounds it. I'll give that a go later on. It just took 40 minutes to open "Boxer's Omen" file in Imovei, so can't carry on doing it this silly way!