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Adding captions to a video clip (preferably on MAC OS)

I'm creating a scientific video clip for a conference, and I need to add captions to the movie. So, How can I add caption to a video? Here are some more details: I'm working on either mac os or ...
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Is there a way to add a “fade to black” effect to a video, from the command line?

I have a script to encode videos (using mencoder), but is there a way to add a simple "fade out/in to black" from the command line, preferably free (as in open source). It could be either on Windows ...
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Is there a tool which can resume video conversion?

I'm using Handbrake for converting and resizing my video files, but other users come and close my video conversion process. There is no resume facility in the software. Because of this, I just have ...
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A program to remove audio segments from a movie

I have a video file, and want to remove the audio from one segment of the movie. Do you know a free software, preferably for Windows, that can do that?
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Unable to cut out part of video with ffmpeg

What I want to do I'm trying to cut a video for a science project under Ubuntu 11.10 with latest ffmpeg, I also tried Kino and avidemux where the video failed to even open properly although it plays ...
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Are there software enabling translation when seeing a video?

I have videos , flv format, the language spoken is american-english and I don't understand most of what is said. So I need that there is a translation below the screen when I see the video. So are ...
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Lossless cutting of MPEG TS files in Windows

I have several HD video files in transport stream (.ts) format, recorded with my satellite receiver. I want to cut them, as in simply remove a few minutes from the beginning, the end and sometimes a ...
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Progressively Accelerate Video with ffmpeg

I'm currently trying to make a time lapse video. This can be done fine with iMovie, however, I'm having one simple issue. Is there any way to accelerate a video progressively with any open source ...
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Add timer/stopwatch overlay to video - is there any free or cheap software?

I'd like to add stopwatch overlay with seconds counter to video file (in the middle, also insert some additional captions). What is the best free or cheap software for such task?
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1080p to 720p converter that converts very fast

Any ideas about a good 1080p to 720p converter that is able to convert a video of 90 minutes in less than several hours? (maybe like in 2, 3 or 4 hours ;-) The compression of a file is H.264/MPEG-4 ...
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Why does dvd-slideshow fail to create an output file?

I'm trying to follow the instructions here. It fails at the end. When I look at the log file, this is what it says. [dvd-slideshow] Multiplexing audio and video... [dvd-slideshow] ERROR during mplex ...
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Tool for remixing audio channel of a video

I am looking for an online service or freeware tool that can remix the audio channel of my video. More specifically I am looking for an easy one-time way to add background music to my video - but ...
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Automatic scene detection

I'm looking for a program which is able to split movie into parts depending on a scene change. So if movie consists of forest landscape and fishes in aquarium then I want to get two movies: the first ...
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Joining and editing videos from Canon DSLR camera

I recorded some videos using my Canon T3i DSLR and my camera kept stopping the recording. I ended up with a number of short videos that I want to join together. I tried doing this using Windows Movie ...
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Cut part from video file starting from startpos to endpos (ffmpeg)

I have a video file of 30 minutes, but I want to extract a video from 00:09:23 to 00:25:33. I can define the startposition with -ss, but I couldn't find one for the end position. Any help please?
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How do I trim OGV files without re-encoding?

So first, a little background. I record videos using recordMyDesktop. It's not the gtk or qt wrappers, I just use the command line. The command looks like this. recordmydesktop -o file.ogv ...
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How can I achieve this inclination and depth effect in screencasts?

Here is an example of what I would like to do: http://vimeo.com/32852176
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Is there any better idea to reverse a video and save it with and without voice? [closed]

What kind of programming language we have to use for this process or any free softwares are available ?
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Aspect ratio of video sliced with FFmpeg unintentionally changes

I am trying to extract a small part from a larger video without changing the codecs, resolution or something else. Therefore, I use FFmpeg with the following settings. ffmpeg -vcodec copy -acodec ...
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Sound out of sync after merging multiple mp4 files with Avidemux

I am trying to join (merge) two or more .mp4 files together, without re-encoding. Here is what I did: Started Avidemux 2.5.5. With File->Open, selected Input1.mp4. I received this message - "H.264 ...
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Inadequate Power Supply - Can I upgrade Video Card on Dell XPS 8300 to assist Video Editing?

I have a Dell XPS 8300 with i7-2600 and 16GB RAM. It has a Radeon 6450. It also has an amazing (as in, incredible) 125 Watt power supply. Somehow, it runs. Recently, I wanted to work with video from ...
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How to blur vehicle plates in video files?

I would like to make all car tags in a given video unrecognizable. I know there are methods of doing this automatically, as it happens on Google Street View. Is there any tool that could process my ...
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Changing colours based on neighbouring pixels in Adobe Premiere

I'm trying to make a mask to key out a video in Premiere. But this question applies to photoshop pictures too, really. My human brain has a very simple solution for this problem: all those white ...
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How to go about setting up a virtual newsroom? [closed]

I am looking to set up a virtual newsroom, to do sme broadcasting fro a non profit. Does anyone have actual experience of doing this - and can you recommend what equipment (hardware) and software ...
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Concatenating ogg video files from the command line

Okay. I've got a few ogg files I've created using a desktop recording tool. I've transcoded them using ffmpeg once (mainly to clip out the beginnings and the ends). Now, I have 3 such files which I ...
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High quality video frame grab under Linux

There is a software (I suppose there are more) under Windows, which claims to take high quality frameshots from videos, called Moment I suppose it works in a way that it takes a set of consecutive ...
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How can I reorder parts of a video file

I have download a mkv movie file which gave me 3 files suffixed .001, .002, and .003. When i join them together with different tools like winrar, 7zip, hjsplit, concatenated file shows only last 40 ...
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What tools should I use to edit H.264 MP4 GoPro videos?

I have recorded videos using a GoPro, which produces MP4 files containing H.264 encoded videos. I would like to do some simple editing tasks on these videos without losing quality:- Cut various ...
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Downloading latest stable release of Avidemux?

I would like to try some simple video editing (joining/cutting videos etc.) with Avidemux. Could you please advise what is the latest release (non-beta version), and where to download it? The reason ...
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How to censor parts of frames in a video, using a Mac? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How to censor a part of a video? Something similar was already asked here How to censor a part of a video? What's the simplest way to cover rectangular areas over ...
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Command-line video editing in Linux (cut, join and preview)

I have rather simple editing needs - I need to cut up some videos, maybe insert some PNGs in between them, and join these videos (don't need transitions, effects, etc.). Basically, pitivi would do ...
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How to turn images into a video slideshow with sound

I have a 65min long MP3 file and 14 different images (a slideshow). How do combine these into a video file that is less than 500MB? Is there any free/opensource/trial software for Windows 7 that can ...
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Select multiple video segments and save in one go?

I don't know much about video, so this is likely to be a newbie question. I need to select multiple sections/segments from an AVI (MP4 + MP3) file, and save them all into a single AVI file. Is there ...
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Outputting videos from multiple crop/mask markings

I have a video, and a mask that goes over the top (that mask consists of various squares at different orientations). What I need/would like todo is output the video that appears in each square to a ...
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HD footage playback is slow on my computer

I have an MSI X58 Pro Bord with an i7 processor and 6 GB Kingston memory. My VGA card is ATI RADEON HD 5850 and I have 2 hard disks of 1 TB size. The Power supply is a 700W/80 plus goldkist. I run ...
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Does a new Dell XPS 15 have native support for FireWire, or have a CardBus slot? [closed]

I'm looking for a new Dell laptop to live stream from a video camera as well as do some video editing. It looks like a XPS 15 is the best cost/performance laptop for this. I'd like to have a FireWire ...
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How to add elements over video

I was watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCSBoOcGFFE And I'm wondering what kind of software you would need in order to take the original and add in the over-layed objects (e.g. the ...
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AVI -> WMV file - why has the file size increased?

I had some home movie footage that I saved as a 75MB AVI file back in the mid/late 90s. Today, I used Windows Live MovieMaker to make a two and a half minute clip from the original AVI. It has ...
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Most efficient way of having an object move across a video?

I have a still image that I would like to utilize to move across a .wmv file I have. What is the easiest and most proficient way I can accomplish this without having to go frame by frame? I wasn't ...
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Recording instructional videos like khanacademy

I want to create instructional videos exactly like the videos from khanacademy.org. http://www.khanacademy.org/about/faq#equipment says that sal khan uses Camtasia Recorder ($200) + ...
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Software to cut video without saving a new file

I need a application to cut video files. I have tried some applications and they require me to save the cut video into a new file rather than overwriting the original file. This is quite annoying ...
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What type of video editing software and resources would be recommended for a beginner?

Ultimately this is the style that I would like to learn how to do: http://www.picturelab.tv/ I have very little experience outside of basic video editing with free programs (e.g., Windows Movie ...
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How to save mplayer's output when watching in ASCII mode (with aalib)

I was helping out a friend working on a presentation where he wants to show some videos he has taken but converted to ASCII art. I can do that quite easily with mplayer on a Linux box using aalib (-vo ...
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How can I crop a 16:9 video to 4:3, cutting off the edges?

I've got a 720p video, that contains a picture that's only 4:3, so the edges left and right stay empty/black. I want to cut of the left and right so that video is 4:3. How do I do this in Windows? ...
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What is a good, high quality data rate for mp4? [closed]

I am exporting a 720p at 30 fps video from Final Cut Pro 6 using quicktime conversion. It has a field for data rate with no presets. What is a high mp4 quality data rate (in kbps) that isn't grainy?
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What is mencoder's -speed option doing?

I need to change the playback speed of a video, but can't use mencoder to do it. Changing the speed that a video plays at seems like the sort've thing that any video encoding software should be able ...
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Playing random short clips from a collection of movies

I'm hosting a party, and I want to play random sequences from a collection of movies in the background. I don't want to sit and edit together five hours of footage by hand though. Ideally I would: ...
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Digitize textbook

How can I digitize my physics textbook? It's huge and I don't want to cut the spine. I saw a picture of this: Ion Audio I want to know what's most important when making my own. I have a digital ...
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Stutters in mkvmerge output files

While using mkvmerge for .mkv muxing, I noticed that some output files had video stutters in the same locations (no matter what player was used to play them). The video quality does not really suffer ...
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Unable to watch a high resolution and high frame rate video

I have a video of a tennis match whose Resolution = 1280 * 720 Codec = H264 Frame rate = 50fps (Copy paste from info given by totem media player) My laptop is not powerful enough to play ...

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