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Sony Vegas
Sony Vegas is a very popular program used to make these videos. It is used by the majority of poopers; so many in fact that a list of people who do not use this is smaller (usually, these people are WMM masters or Adobe Premiere users). Was originally made by Sonic Foundry under the names VideoFactory and Screenblast until Sony bought them.
Advantages
Over Windows Movie Maker
- Simple reverse effect, in WMM a reverse effect is possible but it requires timing in cutting the clips small enough and rearrange the clips. The end result comes out jerky and unpolished.
- More visual customization (lots of visual effects suitable for teching. Movie Maker can have these but it requires plugins.)
- Able to have other methods of Ear Rape
- Audio effects including the pitch shift, popular for YTPMVs (Pitch shift only exists in WMM XP and even then it can only be done by speeding up or slowing down a clip with it.)
- More reliable in that the program does not crash as often as WMM. Vegas rarely crashes unless either it is an intense video such as the MycroProcessor/GameBop variety of visual and audio art, an audio effect or a dodgy clip.
Over Adobe Premiere
- More reliable (?)
- Can be run on less powerful computers
Criticism
Sony Vegas is not without its flaws. Since most people use it, a lot of poops end up coming out as "the same", with poops becoming less creative compared to the earlier eras where Vegas was not often used. This claim has been challenged in recent times; various poopers have claimed that a poop's style is not created by the software used, but by the pooper himself/herself. Some other, less opinionated flaws is that Vegas 5 has a weird bug when the mp3 plugin can't be activated. In addition, some (i.e. Gallers) have reported problems such as disappearing sound(or video with avi) when using certain video file types.
Where to Find
Sony Vegas can be obtained legally through websites like eBay or Amazon, or possibly at various software retailers.
There is also the option of downloading them, but this is illegal, you know.
