Questions about video editing software and their related topics, not to be confused with [video-conversion].
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Greenscreen (aka chroma key) effect with a webcam?
This is not the blue screen of death I am speaking of, but the process called bluescreening (also known as green screen, or Chroma Key).
It removes a particular colored background from an image so ...
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What is the best software to split and join avi files? [closed]
What is the best software to split and join avi files without losing quality (lossless) in Windows?
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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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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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What is the easiest video editing program to use on Windows [closed]
I am looking for suggestions for video editing programs like iMovie, which are dead simple to use. We just need basic editing and titling features for making videos of our kids slightly more ...
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Looking For Video Editing Software for Ubuntu [closed]
Can anyone recommend a good video editing program for Ubuntu?
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How to split an m4v file?
I downloaded a TV season on iTunes (.m4v files), however the files are clustered into 3 episodes each. I'd like to chop these up so that each episode is in it's own file. Googling around a while ...
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What are the good alternatives to Windows Movie Maker in Vista? [closed]
Short of getting a Mac and using iMovie, what are the alternatives that you'll recommend to a non-profit organization that needs to produce simple (but polished) videos to showcase their community ...
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Cut part from video file from start position to end position with 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 can I join multiple .mpg movie files?
I create a lot of these small clips on my digital camera. These are in .mpg format and before I share them with others, I would love to just join, clip a few seconds here and there.
I use Google ...
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Free Chroma key tools
I want to create an educational introductory video, where the tutor stands and explain a subject, and the background is an illustration of that subject. This is done using a technique called Chroma ...
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Trimming / cropping a movie file?
Now, I'm not really sure what's the exact term here. As far as I saw, cropping is related to video size.
I need a program to trim some parts of the video file. On a timescale, for example, from ...
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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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What is a good alternative to Camtasia Studio (screen recording not required)? [closed]
I'm looking for a good alternative to Camtasia Studio - really just the video editing part. My current workflow looks like this:
Record audio (with Audacity)
Save screenshots of the subject matter ...
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How to losslessly combine multiple AVI files into a single file?
I would like to combine multiple movie clips with .mov and .avi extension into a single file. Is there any free software in the market that is good and able to perform that?
Preferably that should ...
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What's the simplest free (or cheap) software to remove unwanted motion in video footage?
I used a program 7 or 8 years ago, that stabilized a video by letting you select a part of the footage that was not supposed to move (like, a sign on a building, or a picture frame on the wall, etc). ...
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How to speed up small parts of a video file to match an audio file?
Currently, I have a video which has been originally made in language X.
Now, I have the audio of the same song in language Y and I want to dub the video but there are some slight moments where they ...
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How to determine segments of footage held in common between different video files?
Context:
Say I have two video files--rips from a DVD or DV tape. They are both MKV or AVI format, some standard container or other, but were ripped separately, with different encoders, different ...
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Successfully concatenating multiple videos
My mission is to create videos out of old web slideshows. To start with I have jpegs and audio files that worked as Flash slideshows in an old system, structured such as this:
Audio structure
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How do I reduce the size of a huge MP4 video?
I paid $59.95 for Vimeo Plus only to find that there is a 1 Gigabyte limit on video size.
I have a 4 GB MP4 video file that I shot with the HD Flip Mino. How do I reduce it to no more than 1 GIG ...
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How to trim or delete parts of an mpeg video from the linux command line?
I have an long mpeg movie and I want to cut out a lot of material from the beginning and end, and certain patches in the middle. Is there a way I can easily do this from the linux command line?
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How do you put clips from a DVD into a website?
I have a promotional DVD from a client, and they want to put clips from it on their website.
I'm in a Windows environment, so I'm looking for a decent video editor program, free would be preferred. ...
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Accurately cut video files from command line
I'm having trouble finding a cli application that can take a video file (avi, mkv, and mp4 preferably) and cut out very short clips (2-6 seconds) with precision time accuracy. I've tried ffmpeg, ...
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Batch-split many AVIs in 2 parts?
how can I batch split many AVIs into 2 parts,
with no conversion?
NB: this didn't help much What is the best software to split and join avi files?
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How to lay one video over another
I have two video clips. What I need is for the first video clip to play behind the second. I need to be able to choose the offset since the two videos are not exactly in sync.I need to adjust the ...
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Combining video and subtitle files as one video?
I have a video file (in the format of .mp4, .mkv, .avi or whatever) and a subtitle file (.srt). I want to embed the subtitle file into the video file so that I have only one file - the video file in ...
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Very simple video editor
First of all, I must to say that I don't know anything about video editing. I'm a total noob in this field.
I need to make a screencast. Actually, I have made the desktop recording and I have some ...
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Windows-based video creation with Ken Burns effect
I want to create a video of old photos and I would like to use the Ken Burns effect for more pleasant transitions. I don't think I require inserting any existing video clips into this -- I just want ...
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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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Split MPEG video from command line?
I have a homemade DVD that I'm effectively trying to insert chapters into and rearrange - the original author burned it as one long chapter, and I'd like to rip it into smaller pieces and re-encode it ...
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ffmpeg to join videos
I previously learned that FFMpeg can join videos:
However, I am attempting to join recorded over-the-air broadcasts (.ts files), and I believe that minor hiccups in signal quality are causing FFMpeg ...
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What software can I use to rotate a video?
I took video with my Sony Cyber shot holding the camera sideways to get a taller capture. I didn't realize that the video would playback sideways. Does anyone know of a app. to rotate the video?
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How does one get Vista to display .MOV thumbnails as a frame from the movie?
I've discovered that the Windows Vista Explorer shell does not display proper thumbnails for .MOV files.
As an example, a .JPG file will be shown in the Explorer shell thumbnail mode as a scaled down ...
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Editting HD Quicktime .mov files in Windows
I recently purchased one of those new wave of point & shoot digicams (canon SD780) that shoot high definition 720p video.
Unfortunately it only writes to Quicktime files.
How can I go about ...
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How do I export only a single clip from a Premiere Pro sequence?
I'm cutting a video in Premiere Pro CS4 and need to slice a long sequence into smaller parts. I've successfully sliced the parts, like this:
I even set the sequence markers to the current ...
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Which file format to use for simple video editoring
I've just bought a Sanyo VPC-CG10 camcorder which saves clips as MPEG-4 (specifically, High-Definition 720p MPEG-4 AVC/H.246)
I want a simple, cheap way to edit the clips and as, I'm using Windows ...
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How can you trim repeating/consistent video from a video?
A friend is working on a sleep study for their university. As part of the study, they place night-vision camcorders in children's rooms and have to monitor how often they wake up, call out for their ...
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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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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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Video editing software with 2D drawing/animation support?
I think I'm looking for video editing software that has some sort of 2D drawing/animation support.
For example try to imagine a video capture of a busy road from the sky and wanting to tell your ...
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How can I watermark my own videos?
I was watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIFNLDQU0VQ and the first thing I noticed was the small watermark in the upper left corner.
What (open source/free) software allows one to do that? I'd ...
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Cut (smart edit) .mts (AVCHD Progressive) files un Ubuntu Lucid
I have a bunch of .mts files containing AVCHD Progressive video recorded by a Panasonic camera, and I need software on Ubuntu Lucid with which I can remove the boring parts, and concatenate the ...
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How can I fix Problems with interlaced video jerking/flicking when playedback on DVD players? (Mixing own DVD from raw footage)
I'm trying to make a DVD and the final DVD jerks when played on standalone DVD players. It seems to play fine on PCs.
I think the problem may be to do with interlacing settings when rendering the ...
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Dealing with AVCHD. Any free software to extract or edit AVCHD video?
I have a Panasonic HDC-SD5 video carmera which records in HD format to a memory card. It also came with a DVD burner which burns this format to DVD which I need a blu-ray player to view. I can get ...
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Accurate and reliable movie editing with avconv
I'm trying to perform movie editing in an automated way with avconv. It is made in two steps:
extract some parts of an input movie:
concatenate the parts to form an output movie:
I tried some ...
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Is it possible to remove movie frames that contain no audio?
I have an AVI file that contains a lot of empty frames, i.e. frames without audio or even picture changes. Is it possible to remove those frames?
Specifically, I have an 8 GB AVI file where almost ...
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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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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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What video editing software can merge 2 videos?
I'm looking for an open-source video editing program that can combine 2 videos into one single video where both video are playing along each other side by side (see example here)
One video is made ...
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Choosing between two video cards: nVidia GTS240/250 vs. ATI HD4870
This is for a Dell gaming PC (XPS 630) but it's primarily used for work stuff (software development, video editing) not so much for high end gaming (I'm still playing Star Craft )
My main criteria is ...
