Mike the Elder wrote:
> Bryan Heit <bjh### [at] NOSPAMucalgaryca> wrote:
>> Dan Byers wrote:
>> I second audacity.  Great program, easy to learn, easy to add-in
>> plugins.  Handles recording, editing and outputting audio files like a
>> pro.  I've worked with a few commercial products, and audacity is equal
>> to those.  "Professional" level software is probably better, but within
>> the consumer category their isn't really any for-purchase software that
>> I'd call better.
>>
>> In terms of the normal stuff we basic users do - background & hum
>> removal, balancing, normalizing, & pitch adjustment -  audacity does it
>> all with a click of a button.
>>
>> Bryan
> 
> Thanks for the input.  I will certainly be checking out Audacity.  What I
> was REALLY hoping to learn more about (I probably could have worded my
> original question much better) is free or cheap software for adding a
> soundtrack to an animation created in POV-Ray and converted to MPEG.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike C.

Ahh, I see.

Unfortunately, I don't think a single piece of software exists which 
allows you to go directly from the image series outputted by povray to 
what you want in one step.

I use virtualdub to load the images and save them as an avi.  There are 
lots of other tools out there that can do this; I think you mentioned 
one of them in your first post.

As for adding audio, what you're basically looking for is a simple video 
editor.

One option is windows movie maker, which I think allows the addition of 
audio.

Other options include Jahshaka (open source, getting to be pretty good, 
multi-platform), Cinerella (linux only), and LiVes (linux only). 
Unfortunately, most of these tools are still in the development stage 
and are not as easy or as stable as commercial software.

That said, I've use all three of the above videos to do basic video 
editing with success.  Jahshaka seems to have the most potential at this 
point, although cinerella is the most complete and capable (and confusing).

Bryan

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