How to make "comparison videos?"

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:48 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7WIFWYTKPU

How do they make those comparison videos?

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:55 am

They probably used Adobe Premiere or After Effects.

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:58 am

bicostp wrote:They probably used Adobe Premiere or After Effects.

Aww, no....

Any freeware alternatives?

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:04 am

I think you can do something like that with Movie Maker and custom transitions, but it's tricky.

You might be able to do this with VirtualDubMod and AVISynth, but I'm not crazy about either one of those.

ArugulaZ · Post by **ArugulaZ** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:17 am

Loosen your grip on that wallet and buy a copy of Cyberlink PowerDirector. It's easy to use, incredibly versatile, and offers up to six simultaneous picture-in-picture windows. Plus, you can get it for as low as thirty dollars on eBay... that's how I got mine.

If you absolutely have to use Wimp-os Movie Maker, you do have some PIP options. Rehan offers a PIP suite for a very reasonable price... it's what got me through my first shaky year of video production. The price is about eight bucks, which is what you'd probably pay for a good dinner.

http://www.rehanfx.org/

If you can't spend any money at all, you may want to try Wax 2.0. It's a last resort, but it does offer picture-in-picture and it is totally free.