Advanced Movie-Making Techniques and Tools...Tutorials and Questions

[White Owl]

Originally Posted by DoolittleRaider

...recording of Voice-Over narration and dialogue...

Recording a vocal commentary and/or dialogue with Fraps will work... sort of... but it can be tricky to set up, and the sound quality is often very poor.

Audacity is a free, open source program that works great for recording voice and editing sound.

Protip: when you first start recording, get ten seconds or so of just silence. After you're done recording, open up Audacity's noise removal feature and use those ten seconds of silence as your sample. This simple step will remove most of the static and microphone hiss, and make you sound better than 99% of the gamers babbling away on Youtube.

[salmo]

I'll chime in here with a few useful links for advanced movie makers:

1. Detonation Films ........ free tutorials, explosions, green screen footage, special effects footage. These guys just love blowing stuff up.

2. Deltaweb's Radio 1940 .... Voiceover summaries of each day of BOB in a 1940 BBC news style.

3. Vidiots' YouTube Video Channel ........... Lots of cool green screen effects. Bullets, blood tec.

4. SoundDogs sound effects .............. All the sound effects you'll ever need.

5. Neo's Clip Archive ............ Free footage, clips, green screens. backgrounds, sounds, catagorised with previews

6. Free Music dot com .............. Free & almost free music catagorised into themes.