Need help in video editing

[Bolt]

Guys, I know almost nothing about video editing, so I need your help.

I have a .wmv file (already converted to .avi) of Russian WW2 movie, which I would like to share with via youtube, but before that I want to add the translation. I want to make subtitles show in the lower part, also because it will be in my youtube channel, I want them embed in the video, not a different subtitle file.

So, guys, here's a question: what software should I use (preferably free, but you can always recommend me non-free popular one, I think I can handle it )? Any ideas?

 

[fiftyone]

Windows Movie Maker !

Maybe.

You can add music and text.
I use it to edit Frap files now and again.

I am also interested in what others may suggest.

 

[Bolt]

Movie maker?
I've tried, but with no success.. I know I can add text there, but it will block all other view.. Is it possible to add subtitles with it? If yes, could you please write a little "how-to"?

 

[Nimsky]

Movie maker?
I've tried, but with no success.. I know I can add text there, but it will block all other view.. Is it possible to add subtitles with it? If yes, could you please write a little "how-to"?

I've done this before. I don't really like this program though, so if I ever do video editing again, I'm going to try a better program. Anyway:

• Open Windows Movie Maker, make a new project.

• Press CTRL+I to import your movie.

• It might cut your movie in scenes of like 28 seconds, select all of those scenes and drag them onto the timeline or storyboard at the bottom.
• Click "show timeline", or something like that (it's at the bottom)
• Click the very first "scene"
• Go Extra -> "Titles and..." (should be the second option)
• Click the first link "title at beginning"
• Click "more options: change titleanimation"
• Select "subtitle"
• Click "edit title text"
• Type your text
• Click "done, add to film"
• Stupid Movie Maker put the text in FRONT of your movie. Drag the blue scene with your text from the "video" field to the "overlay" field right UNDER your first scene.
• Now you can press play on the right side to test your movie.
• You can then change when the text should appear by dragging it to the left or right, or change how long the text should stay by "stretching" the subtitle info
• Copy and paste those subtitles and then edit it, and repeat

Movie Maker is a very illogical program, but that is how I did it ... I think. Try this first, and if that doesn't work, download Sony Vegas or something. If it doesn't work, blame Microsoft, not yourself.

 

[DONT_SHOOT]

I personally use vegas video. Its not to difficult to learn the basics and its can do what your asking fairly easily by overlaying the text onto your video via a crop edit.

 

[Bolt]

Nimsky, I think that has worked! Thank you very much, kind sir!

 

[Crusher]

I use AVIsynth to edit, it's a notepad based program. It's not too hard to make a movie with it.
For exemple, I made http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjFw1LJZSQI&feature=PlayList&p=52262B968EA3EF60&index=0 with AVIsynth, Fraps to capture the footage and Virtualdubmod to convert it.

 

[Thorpy]

Start on movie maker

Push it to its limits

Then move onto more profesh software

Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere is where its at