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Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« on: June 21, 2020, 11:46:37 PM »
im planning a video montage for a 50th anniversary celebration. which program would be most user friendly with professional results? i heard good things about iMovie but i dont have a Mac. any suggestions appreciated. i would also appreciate input as to songs that would go well for the soundtrack, something family minded. like ill be using the chorus from "someday", "memories" from mbd, "vezakeinu"...but need some lighter family themed songs as well....
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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2020, 11:54:58 PM »
Windows movie maker does a superb job and super easy

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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2020, 11:56:58 PM »
Windows movie maker does a superb job and super easy
+1 for movie maker being simple yet powerful.... but many computers are missing it since Windows 10
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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2020, 11:57:39 PM »
+1 for movie maker but many computers are missing it since Windows 10
Can be found online easily.

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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2020, 11:59:37 PM »
If you want something that produces very professional looking results with minimal input and decisions check out animoto.com. I've used it a couple of times and it's super easy to use. You can't do much customizing but it does a really nice job (if you want to, try movie maker instead).

It's not free but I think there's a free trial, or you can pay monthly (and cancel after the first month if you don't need it anymore).
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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2020, 12:08:18 AM »
Zarah Chaya from Yisroel Werdyger is a good song.

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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2020, 01:13:11 AM »
thanks for the movie maker suggestion. will try that out
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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2020, 01:15:51 AM »
Zarah Chaya from Yisroel Werdyger is a good song.
not sure if i searched right one on youtube but it seems to be a nice slow song. im looking for something upbeat light even humorous- for those spaghetti on head pics.... could be a country yossi song too....
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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2020, 09:12:39 AM »
not sure if i searched right one on youtube but it seems to be a nice slow song. im looking for something upbeat light even humorous- for those spaghetti on head pics.... could be a country yossi song too....
Zarah Chaya is a slow song that's good as a moving soundtrack to family-oriented material.

Maybe try "7 little kids" from Country Yossi for the spaghetti on head type of stuff?

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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2020, 09:14:01 AM »
thanks for the movie maker suggestion. will try that out
Make sure you are not using the Microsoft app, which is the standard one for later-model Windows. It's a terrible program. Only use the actual program, which you will have to download from an independent website (Microsoft doesn't offer it anymore).

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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2020, 09:59:50 AM »
Make sure you are not using the Microsoft app, which is the standard one for later-model Windows. It's a terrible program. Only use the actual program, which you will have to download from an independent website (Microsoft doesn't offer it anymore).
Do you have a link to it? I was looking at some point and couldn't find it.
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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2020, 10:00:02 AM »
Zarah Chaya is a slow song that's good as a moving soundtrack to family-oriented material.

Maybe try "7 little kids" from Country Yossi for the spaghetti on head type of stuff?
"Bubby burnt the latkes every chanuka"...?
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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2020, 10:02:00 AM »
"Bubby burnt the latkes every chanuka"...?
Is that Yeshiva Boys Choir "Those were the nights"? Country Yossi actually wrote the lyrics for that song...

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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2020, 10:02:35 AM »
Is that Yeshiva Boys Choir "Those were the nights"? Country Yossi actually wrote the lyrics for that song...
Yes, and that's pretty funny!
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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2020, 10:10:24 AM »
Song suggestion- We are Family by Sister Sledge

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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #15 on: June 22, 2020, 10:17:11 AM »
Yes, and that's pretty funny!
Another funny thing about that song: Country Yossi love to kill people in his songs. More people die in his songs than in songs from any other Jewish artist. In that song, the original lyrics read "that was uncle Hershal's LAST mistake." Eli Gerstner changed it to "BIG mistake".  ;D

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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #16 on: June 22, 2020, 10:20:42 AM »
Another funny thing about that song: Country Yossi love to kill people in his songs. More people die in his songs than in songs from any other Jewish artist. In that song, the original lyrics read "that was uncle Hershal's LAST mistake." Eli Gerstner changed it to "BIG mistake".  ;D
Uncle Hymie, and that explains the sentence :D
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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #17 on: June 22, 2020, 11:13:35 AM »
Do you have a link to it? I was looking at some point and couldn't find it.
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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #18 on: June 22, 2020, 11:22:14 AM »
Another funny thing about that song: Country Yossi love to kill people in his songs. More people die in his songs than in songs from any other Jewish artist. In that song, the original lyrics read "that was uncle Hershal's LAST mistake." Eli Gerstner changed it to "BIG mistake".  ;D
that's a good point. almost as many deaths as a disney movie

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Re: Program / Song Suggestions for Video Montage
« Reply #19 on: June 22, 2020, 11:23:15 AM »
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