Open-source alternative to Premiere to create turntable animations?

Mant1k0re

I am trying to create a turntable animation from the shots generated with the eponymous feature in Toolbag 2 and the first solution that turns up from Google is Premiere, but I suppose it isn't free, or cheap...

Is there any open-source or cheap software that can be used to do this?

Thanks!

Millenia

Virtualdub works fine and is free.

CompanionCube

fusion is free

Mant1k0re

Thank you!

RN

There's Shotcut:
http://www.shotcut.org/bin/view/Shotcut/Features

myclay

You could also use Blenders built-in Video Editor for that task.

http://www.blender.org/features/

Dataday

If you want something a lot easier to pump out without learning a complex compositing application, check out Hitfilm 3 Express (Free) or Sony Movie Studio (aka Vegas, $20-40 via amazon or Steam $50-60).
https://hitfilm.com/express
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The above are quite fast if you are enabling the GPU capabilities.

Other options include pro level compositing software like Fusion (mentioned above, has a learning curve) and Davinici Resolve (video editor + color correcting, also learning curve).
For a more Nuke like experience there is Natron, which is also free.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
https://natron.inria.fr/

These seem like overkill for what you want to accomplish though.

Prime8

In Blender this is quite easily done.
You can add image sequences by just adding more than one image at once.

Of course it might be over the top to use it just for that, but it is possible and of course you have a lot of options to add stuff if you decide too.

MikeF

I just recently learned that Photoshop can import an image sequence and export as .mp4 with minimal effort.

It's not the first thing that comes to mind for video editing, but for simple tasks like a turntable it's a quick and easy solution.

I'm not sure what versions support this but i've done this with cs6 extended, so if you already have ps in your toolset then it seems like a good option!

monster

FFmpeg is an open source and easy command line tool to convert to video.

Shadownami92

Da Vinci Resolve seems like a really good piece of software to get the job done.

Blender works but I found it's compression settings are a bit limited causing good results generally being much larger file sizes, fighting to find good settings that get you audio and sound was also a problem I had with Blender's sequence editor.

If you want to add sound I found that Fusion can also be a bit annoying to work with, it technically doesn't work with sound without a sort of complex system of loader nodes or having the prepared audio export with the finished composition, but even then I had problems getting audio working correctly.

Something specifically for editing sound and video together seems most comfortable to me since it assumes you are going to be dealing with your final files of the video. Fusion seems to be more for compositing stuff as a middle step of a production.

Mant1k0re

Wow, now I don't even know where to start, but thanks a lot for all this information!

Lt_Commander

If you have Photoshop CS6 Extended or better, they have a timeline video editor, it's just kind of hidden. It's really bare-bones and not very intuitive, but it's more or less designed for just this task. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't use it for much more then rendering out video from image sequences with simple title plackards/sound splicing. The only edge it has is that it's built in without installers and is, well, photoshop.

That's if you're already using PS though.

Edit:

Looks like MikeF beat me to the punch.

sprunghunt

windows movie maker is probably already installed on your system (it's free with windows) and works fine for basic video editing:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/movie-maker

Also

both maya and max can compile image sequences into a video file:

with maya you use fCheck to do it:
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/MayaLT/files/FCheck-Save-images-or-sequences--htm.html

in max you use the post processing editor:
http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/15/ENU/3ds-Max-Help/files/GUID-AD51E245-A8BF-46DE-AF4C-61B72C43E9B4.htm#WSF742DAB0410631333FB720EA112A1CECE5E-7FFA