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I've been building a model railway layout for my son, honest it is for him, but that aside, I came across a Video on youtube that started me thinking.

can anyone here give me any idea on what or how to do something like this.

 

That is quite impressive video editing Match. It can be done with some of the better video editors as it means superimposing one video onto another with correct synchronisation. Doing it the way he showed would actually be the best, though not sure how he created the steam and smoke, possibly some clever animation involved in making that bit.
Not quite as simple as working with one single photo in photoshop but similar processes perhaps.

Nev.

 

While it takes an artist to pull off something like this it also (unless you have the money to hire extreme artists) takes the right software. Not really sure as, even though I have it I haven't really touched it's abilities, but Camtasia might be able to help... looking from USD $200-$400. Has to be added that even with the best software if you are not an artist you will not get the results.

Look at the original Disney animated movies such as Snow White. From what I understand these movies were done by EACH AND EVERY FRAME being hand painted. Just due to the feeling they give you I challenge the best editing software to give the same results as these hand painted masterpieces.

 

I thought about the Frame by Frame approach, but I think video runs at 50fps? not sure, but that's a lot of editing, I remember once watching a tv program on Disney, and his attention to detail was incredible, whenever I watch one of his original hand painted films I always have the thought about the work that went into them.

I was hoping that their was free software available that had the editing ability to make the Job simple and easy, as I have an Idea of attaching a miniature camera to a train and running it round the completed layout, lol still have plenty of time to research this Idea, about 30 year to my thinking on a completion date.

 

Just to lessen your task look at anything at or over 30 frames per second to be OK, don't need 50. While there are some people that will detect flicker at 30 frames a second on an average it is fine.

Consider this... the following quote is from Wikipedia on the subject of 'Super 8' film that was released in 1965. Please not the comparison that the professional movie standard at that time was 24 frames per second. While there are extreme exceptions the most that the human eye can detect is 30 frames per second.

Aforementioned quote:
"Launched in 1965, Super 8 film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take-up spools loaded with 50 feet (15 m) of film, with 72 frames per foot. This was enough film for 2.5 minutes at the professional motion picture standard of 24 frames per second, "