movie making software

hey guys!

I recently picked up this interest in making my own movie. Since I cant do that in the real world, I wanted to ask you guys if there is any software that I can create movies with computer graphics. I googled around and found dissatisfactory stuff like the 3d Movie Maker. I dont mind spending some money, and spending (a lot of) time, but I want a software where literally "anything" can be done, with good graphics. Because the story I want to create is a fantasy story, I will need good software to do this. THanks guys! i come to this forum because you guys always know what you're talking about!

cheers!

 

have you tried the moviemaker which comes with XP? it crashes abit, but you can make movies with it and add afew nice effects.

here's another good open source program, at least i think it's the program i'm thinking of i'll have another look in abit.
http://www.virtualdub.org/

http://www.videohelp.com/
there are links at the left side:
http://www.videohelp.com/guides
http://www.videohelp.com/articles
http://www.videohelp.com/capture
etc etc

 

inceni60,

um, well, that's not exactly what I meant. i am not really all that good at explaining this. lol. What i meant was that I am looking for a software that you could create a movie from scratch, with only 3d graphics, as I do not want to take a camera out; i have no actors available to me. the Movie Maker that comes with windows edits all ready captured footage i believe. so yea, i want to work with total cg animations and make a movie out of them by adding special effects, sound effects, etc. thx for replying!

 

oh, maybe Blender then
http://blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html

 

WMM is rubbish, or in america "garbage" it only converts movies to "wma" and doesnt have very good.. anything. good for beginers.. no good for powerusers.

 

hey iceni! do u have any more links? these look tasty, u have some good links, are they easy to use?

 

have you ever tried it? i tried to put some vidcasts together to see what it's like and it always crashes it was better then i thought it would be though. but you are probably right King Kong probably wasn't made with it, i'm not sure though

 

wow, thx for the blender! it looks really complicated.
but hey...the more complicated the better the result usually.
once again, thx for taking care of my issue!

 

I took a look at some of the samples in the gallery. They are outstanding. I love this one:

http://blender.org/cms/typo3temp/pics/906785cdd1.jpg