On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 05:13:25 GMT, Sam Alexander wrote:

>Hi. I am looking for a program to edit video frame by frame. I want
>to do special effects like take one person and put them in the same
>video as if they were two people (kind of like Patty Duke Show or
>Parent Trap). I would also like to do effects like morph people
>together in video (like take one persons head and put it on another
>person's body in video). Stuff like this.
>
>I'm not a professional video editor, so those thousand dollar packages
>won't do. I have MGI's Video Wave III, but it doesn't seem to let me
>edit stuff at the frame level, just put frames together with special
>effects and sound. If it can do this, can someone please tell me how?

The common video editors (Premiere, MSPro, others) can
do this - I edit at the frame level often in Premiere
to get a custom transition just right, a sound blend
ideal, a variable filter adjusted, etc. It's
time-consuming, but not hard...