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i'm looking for some basic free sw to edit movie clips like adding background audio, cutting out fragments etc.
thanks much!
video editing tools? recommendations please
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 02:31 PM
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 03:02 PM
i assume you've tried and rejected windows movie maker, included with xp sp2? i don't know that there's much free, good video editing software out there.
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 03:46 PM
Are you making cooking videos, too?
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 07:09 PM
Windows moviemaker for PCs and iMovie for Macs are both free and remarkably good for basic editing. Very user friendly. Moviemaker is a free download if you don't have it already.
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People like her are always scared. It’s a lonely world when you’re just so damned right and everyone else is so stupid. That’s why God made cats.
He tended to date high-strung women — another symptom of his shyness. "Say what you want about them, psychotics tend to make the first move."
When you get over-confident, you get your ass kicked with your own shoes. (Fabio, Top Chef)
They probably drink corporate water.
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 08:51 PM
QUOTE(GrantK @ Oct 9 2007, 12:09 PM) 
Windows moviemaker for PCs and iMovie for Macs are both free and remarkably good for basic editing. Very user friendly. Moviemaker is a free download if you don't have it already.
I have Vegas and it's "powerful software with sexy features", as they say, and I've gotten pretty good at it but Moviemaker is fine for 90% of it.
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 09:28 PM
iMovie, or FinalCut, but you'll need a Mac.
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 09:41 PM
QUOTE(Rebecca @ Oct 9 2007, 02:26 PM)
Hark, is that a native California sunflower? Air-bourne seeds, fluffweed and like? You growing sunflower seeds, too?
I grow lots of things.
i believe it is a Tarahumara Indian variety.
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Posted 10 October 2007 - 02:41 AM
QUOTE(mongo_jones @ Oct 9 2007, 11:02 AM)
i assume you've tried and rejected windows movie maker, included with xp sp2? i don't know that there's much free, good video editing software out there.
well, you give me too much credit - i had no clue about a built-in sw
QUOTE(rancho_gordo @ Oct 9 2007, 11:46 AM)
Are you making cooking videos, too?
no way, and in fact i'm pretty much done with food photography... The clips in question are of the outdoor kind, like the one of a beaver we were lucky to spot last week...
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Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day." Bruce Mau
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Posted 10 October 2007 - 06:00 AM
QUOTE(helena @ Oct 10 2007, 04:41 AM)
i'm pretty much done with food photography... The clips in question are of the outdoor kind, like the one of a beaver we were lucky to spot last week...
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Posted 10 October 2007 - 06:02 AM
QUOTE(rancho_gordo @ Oct 7 2007, 06:51 PM)
QUOTE(GrantK @ Oct 9 2007, 12:09 PM)
Windows moviemaker for PCs and iMovie for Macs are both free and remarkably good for basic editing. Very user friendly. Moviemaker is a free download if you don't have it already.
I have Vegas and it's "powerful software with sexy features", as they say, and I've gotten pretty good at it but Moviemaker is fine for 90% of it.
Are you going to give her yours?
Never assume animosity when stupidity could be the cause.
Whichever side you're on, the other side doesn't just have bad ideas, they have to be bad people too.
People like her are always scared. It’s a lonely world when you’re just so damned right and everyone else is so stupid. That’s why God made cats.
He tended to date high-strung women — another symptom of his shyness. "Say what you want about them, psychotics tend to make the first move."
When you get over-confident, you get your ass kicked with your own shoes. (Fabio, Top Chef)
They probably drink corporate water.
'Happy Cuatro de Cinco!'
Whichever side you're on, the other side doesn't just have bad ideas, they have to be bad people too.
People like her are always scared. It’s a lonely world when you’re just so damned right and everyone else is so stupid. That’s why God made cats.
He tended to date high-strung women — another symptom of his shyness. "Say what you want about them, psychotics tend to make the first move."
When you get over-confident, you get your ass kicked with your own shoes. (Fabio, Top Chef)
They probably drink corporate water.
'Happy Cuatro de Cinco!'
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Posted 10 October 2007 - 03:25 PM
QUOTE(GrantK @ Oct 9 2007, 11:02 PM)
QUOTE(rancho_gordo @ Oct 7 2007, 06:51 PM)
QUOTE(GrantK @ Oct 9 2007, 12:09 PM)
Windows moviemaker for PCs and iMovie for Macs are both free and remarkably good for basic editing. Very user friendly. Moviemaker is a free download if you don't have it already.
I have Vegas and it's "powerful software with sexy features", as they say, and I've gotten pretty good at it but Moviemaker is fine for 90% of it.
Are you going to give her yours?
My what?
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Posted 10 October 2007 - 07:20 PM
Your Vegas software. She wanted free. Nevermind.
Never assume animosity when stupidity could be the cause.
Whichever side you're on, the other side doesn't just have bad ideas, they have to be bad people too.
People like her are always scared. It’s a lonely world when you’re just so damned right and everyone else is so stupid. That’s why God made cats.
He tended to date high-strung women — another symptom of his shyness. "Say what you want about them, psychotics tend to make the first move."
When you get over-confident, you get your ass kicked with your own shoes. (Fabio, Top Chef)
They probably drink corporate water.
'Happy Cuatro de Cinco!'
Whichever side you're on, the other side doesn't just have bad ideas, they have to be bad people too.
People like her are always scared. It’s a lonely world when you’re just so damned right and everyone else is so stupid. That’s why God made cats.
He tended to date high-strung women — another symptom of his shyness. "Say what you want about them, psychotics tend to make the first move."
When you get over-confident, you get your ass kicked with your own shoes. (Fabio, Top Chef)
They probably drink corporate water.
'Happy Cuatro de Cinco!'
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Posted 12 October 2007 - 09:55 PM
I just found software that lets you get the video from your DVD and then keep it as a file.
This was my first attempt:
Dos tipos de cuidado.
There are so many possible settings that it makes my head spin.
The initial file was an avi and Vegas could only read the sound, but Movie maker could read it fine. So I saved it in Movie maker as a wmv file and then Vegas could read it. Then I exported as an mp4, which of course Windows can't read but You Tube thinks is fine.
GrantK, is there a site with a master list of all these settings?
This was my first attempt:
Dos tipos de cuidado.
There are so many possible settings that it makes my head spin.
The initial file was an avi and Vegas could only read the sound, but Movie maker could read it fine. So I saved it in Movie maker as a wmv file and then Vegas could read it. Then I exported as an mp4, which of course Windows can't read but You Tube thinks is fine.
GrantK, is there a site with a master list of all these settings?
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