Great, thank you!!!

I'm downloading the 2.0 sound now and will be muxing it altogether later tonight and I hope it could be finished uploading tomorrow. In the meantime here are a few clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd4aJ9IoRLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Xi2KY3F68

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9HeMEL7cww

Thanks guys. The 1980 soundmix provided by Mattman works perfectly, so I'm uploading right now. Empire contains 5 soundmixes now:

1) hairy_hen's 5.1 purist mix @ 448Kbps AC3

2) 1993 2.0 mix @ 320Kbps AC3

3) 1980 2.0 mix @ 224Kbps

4) 1992 2.0 CZ dub @ 192Kbps

5) 1997 2.0 CZ dub @ 192Kbps

I put in both CZ dubs simply because there was space for them. This gives anyone space to replace them with any desired soundmix.

Awesome!

Well, actually I'm not sure if you should take my path, I'm using an amateur program called Power Director for editing because my computer keeps crushing when I try using Sony Vegas (which is what most people here recommend). For the FX work I use Adobe After Effects. There is an array of other programs I use, like TS muxer, RipBot or Yamb but if you want to start editing you should check in the Technical Discussion forum, I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for there.

Vegas is one of the easiest video applications to learn how to use. That is why it became so popular so quickly.

Yeah, I'm not sure if I'll be putting them into my releases (I might though) but I'm definitely interested in obtaining them :-)

Also, it is now completely uploaded, so if you're interested let me now. (Again, preferably here than by PM).

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Vegas is one of the easiest video applications to learn how to use. That is why it became so popular so quickly.

Wow, it is? I must be one of the stupidest video editors then because it seemed incredibly complicated to me, so many buttons and windows and not enough space for anything on my laptop's 15.4" monitor ;-D

Harmy said:

.. it seemed incredibly complicated to me, so many buttons and windows and not enough space for anything on my laptop's 15.4" monitor ;-D

The only windows that come up by default are a timeline, a preview window, an audio slider, and a file browser.  You can change the file browser to any of a number of other things (for instance, if you want to browse backgrounds instead).  It all fits on my 15" screen, but I do have to resize things to keep the preview window reasonably large while still viewing multiple tracks on the timeline.  I make the timeline tracks as small as they'll go, and the preview window as large as I can.  You're right there are little buttons all over the place, but most of them can be ignored as they are shortcuts to functions that are on the right-click menus.  You only need to use a few of them at the start, like the mute and solo buttons, and the play, stop, and pause buttons.

You can generally start right out by browsing for the files you want, stacking them in rows on the timeline, and pressing play.  Where Vegas excels is in manipulating the clips on the timeline... stretching, cutting, moving them around, and crossfading them is, I found, intuitive. And pretty much everything can be previewed in real time without rendering or pre-rendering, so you can try stuff out immediately as you move things around. Even Avid requires pre-rendering a lot of things that Vegas can just preview instantly.

I started out with iMovie and was impressed with its ease of use. However, as my needs became more intricate, I found myself finding it hard to get it to do the things I needed to do. The first time I fired up Vegas, I never opened iMovie again.  I've also used Premiere, MovieMaker, and Avid, and find Vegas by far the easiest to use.  Of course, this is my personal opinion and other people may have their own style of working/thinking.

+1 for Vegas.

PMs sent.

And guys, could we please move the pro/against Vegas discussion somewhere else? I can't get it to work without crushing all the time anyway, so even if I did like it, I wouldn't be using it, so it's quite off topic here :-)

PM plz :-)

PM sent :-)