Becoming a movie-making genius...almost!
Alright, we're not going to turn you into a fully clued-up movie producer just yet. However, you don't have to be one with the following video-editing tools. One of the most painful experiences we had while researching this book was navigating through the maze of compression codecs, frame rates, aspect ratios, and other thorny issues that make digital moving-image production such a nightmare.
In this book, we will produce animations that are suitable for upload to popular video streaming sites such as YouTube or Vimeo. For this, we will use the following two dedicated tools:
VirtualDub (Windows) to create an animation out of our rendered images
HandBrake (Windows and Mac) to convert the video into a streaming version with H.264 compression
We will look at the details of the process of making a movie in Chapter 10, Animations, and also introduce a few other tools to make our lives as movie producers easier.
