Makeing a movie trailer...help?

Question

For my english project, I have to make a movie trailer. Are there any good movie editing sophware that you would reccomend? I would need to do voice overs, background music etc. Are there any microphones that could clip on to clopthing to enhance sound for a non professional camcorder? Are there any tutorials to help?

Answer 1

"Good" movie editors typically cost... Windows comes bundled with MovieMaker; iMovie comes with Macintoshes.

For audio capture and editing, I occasionally use Audacity.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

For mics... many consumer camcorders do not have a mic-in jack. Before going down the mic path, it would be more productive if you can tell us what camcorder you are using - then we can determine if it has a mic-in jack... then we can discuss mics.

Answer 2

I'm an audio engineer, so I'll try to help out with the microphone side of it.

Your camcorder doesn't appear to have a microphone input, so I'm not entirely sure how you'd connect a microphone to it.

MAYBE your camcorder can support streaming, and using Windows Movie Maker you can plug your camcorder into your computer and you can record straight to your hard disk. This would let you choose another sound source. Then you could get ONE decent battery powered condenser and plug it into your computer's soundcard, and record audio from the microphone and video from the camcorder. You would need a laptop if you wanted to move around though. If you wanted to try the idea above, here is a decent battery powered condenser microphone which will plug directly into your laptop's sound card. http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-SM-320-Pro-Wired...

I'd use this technique if I could. Otherwise your practically stranded. Maybe you can still buy this microphone, and record sound later on? (record the video, mute the sound on the video, and then re-record the audio?)

Hope this helps!