Stroke meter in middle?

[fapscallion]

Hey, I've recently discovered the various Cock Hero movies over the last few months and really enjoyed them. I started working on one of my own and recently finished one round. I use Windows Movie Maker and haven't found any way to download Adobe Premiere to implement a stroke meter, but I messaged brewster and he promptly sent me the video for my stroke meter. However, I'm having troubles merging it over the CH video. I was finally able to get it to a normal size, but it was the in the middle of the screen. Does anyone know a way to adjust it? If not, what do you guys think of having it in the middle?

[ThumpeR11]

Hey, I've recently discovered the various Cock Hero movies over the last few months and really enjoyed them. I started working on one of my own and recently finished one round. I use Windows Movie Maker and haven't found any way to download Adobe Premiere to implement a stroke meter, but I messaged brewster and he promptly sent me the video for my stroke meter. However, I'm having troubles merging it over the CH video. I was finally able to get it to a normal size, but it was the in the middle of the screen. Does anyone know a way to adjust it? If not, what do you guys think of having it in the middle?

I can't help you with your problem, but you'll probably need something more serious than Win Movie Maker if you want to have a stroke meter on-screen.

[Jackal403]

As someone who got started with Windows Movie Maker, I speak from experience. You're going to want to upgrade.

It works well enough for the video portion, even captions and adding music wasn't so bad. It's adding all the extras where it falls short. I'm not 100% on this, but I'm pretty sure you can't adjust the orientation of the video layers in Movie Maker.

If you can "acquire" Adobe Premiere Pro, it was a great transition for me from Movie Maker. Easy to use from the get-go, with lots of room to grow as you become more familiar with the interface and it's capabilities. 9 times out of 10, if I couldn't figure something out, I could just Google it and find written directions, YouTube tutorials, troubleshooting forums, etc. that solved my problems. In the past couple weeks I've taken the leap and learned how to make my own strokemeter with Adobe After Effects (many thanks to brewster's video guides on YouTube, see this thread for links: http://www.milovana.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=8721) and it's been very easy to integrate into Premiere Pro, putting it wherever I want it to go, adding transitions, etc.

My advice would be to finish your video with Movie Maker. It's what you're currently familiar with, and will ensure uniformity for the full video. Once you're happy with it in it's current state, export it to video and then, if you choose to use Adobe Premiere Pro, you can very easily drop your finished video into Adobe to continue the extra editing. This would make it very easy to add the stroke meter.

If you want to take the plunge and have any questions regarding how to start out with Adobe Premiere Pro, I'd be happy to help!

[fapscallion]

Thanks for your input. I just found a way to get Cyberlink PowerDirector 11, so that's a definite upgrade from Windows Movie Maker. I still would prefer Adobe Premiere Pro but hopefully this should be enough for me to continue.