needed effects - denoise, deinterlace + stop motion

moron wrote on 8/30/2004, 11:22 AM
Howdy. I haven't noticed this looking through the options for Movie Studio so I thought I would ask here.

First off, does Movie Studio support 3rd party (or from Sony) effects? I really would like to get a denoiser to use with lo-fi VHS source material and since one isn't included (an odd omission) it seems like a 3rd party plugin is needed. Likewise, a deinterlacer would be handy as well.

On a related note, this seems like it should be in there and so I am wondering if I am just missing it. Is there a stop motion effect or option which will show say, 1 of n number of frames? Or is the only way to achieve this to export to stills and then manually pull out a sequence from that?

Cheers

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Chienworks wrote on 8/30/2004, 12:20 PM
Movie Studio does not support 3rd party plugins. There also is no stop-frame effect. These features are all available in Movie Studio's big brother, Vegas. Keep in mind that Movie Studio is the basic, trimmed down version of Vegas. It's a lot cheaper than Vegas, and this is because it offers a lot less features.
moron wrote on 8/30/2004, 12:36 PM
Howdy. I do understand that Movie Studio is comparatively cheap and that Sony might want to push upgrades to Vegas. That said, Vegas is way too expensive for most folks to even consider using and other cheap (and some free) products do support denoise effects - the excellent Virtual Dub for example. I guess I can always perform an export and then use other tools, it just seems like an odd choice to leave out a couple of the effects that would be the most use to people trying to edit their home movies on the vain hope that they will shell out $800US for a full blown video editing suite.

IMHO of course.

Cheers
leftpeg wrote on 9/3/2004, 10:26 AM
What about Sony Effects from other programs? I've got the latest version of CD architect, which comes with some great audio effects. Seems like they should be compatible. Maybe a registry setting that could be changed?
Chienworks wrote on 9/3/2004, 11:41 AM
The effects in the other SONY "pro" level software are almost all DX plugins. Movie Studio doesn't support them.
leftpeg wrote on 9/3/2004, 2:10 PM
Thanks for clearing that up, Chienworks. I was playing around with the demo last night, and I've been very impressed so far. The real time video effects are very flexible, and I think the existing audio effects will be adequate for most home projects. For the price, I think it's going to be very hard to beat this product.
careh wrote on 9/5/2004, 7:03 AM
Re: Still image.

This is just a guess for a way around the lack of a still image feature. Could you not copy & paste a single frame many, many times & thus simulate a still image?

It would be tedious - but it just might work.

Thinking further - you could copy & paste the frame - say 10 times - then copy & paste the newly created 10 frames - thus making multiples of 10 at a time. 30 frames a second - it would not take that long to do.

e.g.

A
AA
...up to
AAAAAAAAAA
and so on -
Now copy & paste the set

AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA (and so on)

Hope this helps (and that it works!)
IanG wrote on 9/5/2004, 8:57 AM
If you want a still image just put it on the timeline, grab one edge and drag it to whatever length you want.

Ian G.
artone wrote on 9/5/2004, 9:19 AM
Hi Careh,
you can save that frame as a still image,drag it to the length you want.
then you won't have to copy and paste 10 times. and it works much better.
moron wrote on 9/5/2004, 4:50 PM
Creating a stop motion effect this way though is extremely time intensive, doable but not much fun for anything but very short bursts.

Cheers
artone wrote on 9/5/2004, 9:27 PM
then you should really look into upgradingto big brother Vegas, only $399.95 if you're upgrading from Moviestudio.
The fun is limitless.
IanG wrote on 9/6/2004, 12:43 AM
>Creating a stop motion effect this way though is extremely time intensive

It doesn't have to be - you can save a frame to the clipboard and paste it back in. Alternatively you can split the last frame off and stretch that - either way, it only takes a few seconds.

Ian G.