Recommendations for making FMV

[Blondbraid]

Hi everybody!
I thought that it would be fun to experiment with adding FMV cut-scenes to my next AGS-project,
but I have no experience making 2D videos and want to hear if anyone has any can recommend
any program for creating FMVs that is easy to learn for beginners. Any tips?

[Jack]

I would do something like this in-engine, for never having to deal with video codecs or compression artefacts in AGS, but even a simple scene takes a lot of scripting, so I can see the appeal. I expect something like the tween module would make this approach easier.

But if I had to do a video I would probably use spriter, since it has quite an intuitive interface and the free version can do a lot.

If the FMV is short however there's not really any reason why you couldn't just include it as a succession of frames, rather than a video, in AGS. That would make it lossless and you wouldn't need to deal with codecs.