Incredible free editing software?

[KristiferColumbus]

vid editing is ram hungry

try total video converter to turn it into flash

big flash

edit that

its what it will go on the web as anyway

two drives are better

buy an external usb - ebuyer

you will not regret it

d

Thanks for that Dylan.I am currently into HI-FI & all the rage there is about streaming.Now I've got a pretty good Media Center PC which I have used already to store some music tracks on but there is always the worry there that the hard drive & computer might go tits up & you loose all your tracks so my question to you is.Is that USB external thing something that I could also use for that purpose.......sorry about going off subject somewhat.

 

[st599]

Thanks for that Dylan.I am currently into HI-FI & all the rage there is about streaming.Now I've got a pretty good Media Center PC which I have used already to store some music tracks on but there is always the worry there that the hard drive & computer might go tits up & you loose all your tracks so my question to you is.Is that USB external thing something that I could also use for that purpose.......sorry about going off subject somewhat.

You could, provided that you copy the files to the USB hard disc and then disconnect it cleanly (using whatever method Windows have invented these days). Otherwise when the computer trashes 1 filesystem it may trash the other one too.

 

[KristiferColumbus]

You could, provided that you copy the files to the USB hard disc and then disconnect it cleanly (using whatever method Windows have invented these days). Otherwise when the computer trashes 1 filesystem it may trash the other one too.

Thanks for that advice st.My computer has a thing called a media drive that you can buy separately but obviously then it ties you into this precise computer so I shall have to look into this USB drive thing.Thanks.

 

[st599]

I thought you were on to something there with VLC. I managed to convert .mpg ->.mp4 not the most perfect of results but watchable.
Tried converting .mts to mp4 and nothing...got a 2Kb file of 0 length.
I have found that changing the deinterlace setting in VLC improves tha playback quality.

You need to create your own transcode setting.

Click the little scredriver icon next to the settings drop down box.

Click on keep original video in the video tab and keep original audio in the audio tab.

Choose an encapsulation format.

Give it a new name and save, use this setting and it should just re-wrap the file.

Should work on any file that VLC can play.

 

[st599]

You need to create your own transcode setting.

Click the little scredriver icon next to the settings drop down box.

Click on keep original video in the video tab and keep original audio in the audio tab.

Choose an encapsulation format.

Give it a new name and save, use this setting and it should just re-wrap the file.

Should work on any file that VLC can play.

Or if you're au fait with a command line, download ffmpeg and type:

ffmpeg -i <input_file> -vcodec copy -acodec copy <output_file>

replacing the bits in <> with the correct filenames (and possibly needing ffmpeg.exe on windows)

 

[dylanwinter]

just but the drive

Thanks for that advice st.My computer has a thing called a media drive that you can buy separately but obviously then it ties you into this precise computer so I shall have to look into this USB drive thing.Thanks.

buy it, plug it into your usb socket

put you stuff on it

unplug it and move it around all you like

simple

usb is designed for eejits like me

PCs computers getting better and better

can;t remember the last time windows crashed

worry not

 

[KristiferColumbus]

Can I ask the panel of illustrious experts present is this USB thing a substitute for upgrading RAM,does it do that function or is it just a storage device?
Also,since this new editing software is demanding more RAM & expertise that is probably beyond me.Does Windows Movie Maker cater for HD & equal quality to Quicktime Motion JPEG (1280/720 pixels 30 fps) supposing that I were able to convert it to something that it accepts.Would there be a drop in quality?

 

[FistralG]

Can I ask the panel of illustrious experts present is this USB thing a substitute for upgrading RAM,does it do that function or is it just a storage device?
Also,since this new editing software is demanding more RAM & expertise that is probably beyond me.Does Windows Movie Maker cater for HD & equal quality to Quicktime Motion JPEG (1280/720 pixels 30 fps) supposing that I were able to convert it to something that it accepts.Would there be a drop in quality?

It's not a RAM upgrade.
It's just external storage to expand your internal storage or use as a backup device.
I've been experimenting with Windows Live Movie Maker. It seems to accept a range of input formats including HD.
It does a fair amoun of preprocessing to allow file to be edited easily without huge amounts of RAM.
Output limited to .wmv and DVD using windows DVD Burner.

 

[dylanwinter]

external drive

putting all your films on an exter nal drive is a good thing because it leaves you main disk, with thw windows and the video editing software to work on what it does well

and the video is on another disk - so streaming the video off the disk is not competing for disk time with your operating system and editing software

so everything runs better

- it might possibly, if you are lucky allow you to get away without buying the etxra ram - although that would certainly help.

as for the windows video format

I am not saying that is not any good - but in my opinion its not very good

but it does always run on windows - it makes thing s a bit soupy sometimes

Dylan

 

[KristiferColumbus]

Thanks for your input.I don't think I can run Windows Live Movie Maker because I believe that uses Vista & mine is XP
So it's conversion or just running the "Quicktime Motion JPEG" unedited (which incredibly the VLC player seems to manage no problem) or Panasonic's AVCHD LITE for which they have supplied their own editing software but the AVCHD dos'nt seem as good quality as the motion JPEG.

 

[st599]

Thanks for your input.I don't think I can run Windows Live Movie Maker because I believe that uses Vista & mine is XP
So it's conversion or just running the "Quicktime Motion JPEG" unedited (which incredibly the VLC player seems to manage no problem) or Panasonic's AVCHD LITE for which they have supplied their own editing software but the AVCHD dos'nt seem as good quality as the motion JPEG.

You'll be happy to know that the VLC team are writing a basic video editor http://www.videolan.org/vlmc/

The source code is available and I've had a play - really easy to use and knocks spots of Windows Movie Maker. Hopefully there'll be a Windows download available soon. AVC-HD Lite shouldn't be too bad - it's relatively high bitrate H.264 video.

 

[KristiferColumbus]

You'll be happy to know that the VLC team are writing a basic video editor http://www.videolan.org/vlmc/

The source code is available and I've had a play - really easy to use and knocks spots of Windows Movie Maker. Hopefully there'll be a Windows download available soon. AVC-HD Lite shouldn't be too bad - it's relatively high bitrate H.264 video.

That's really good news st,thanks very much for that

AVCHD Lite dos'nt seem to bad compared to the AVI stuff that's produced by WMM but there seems to be a lot of debate on youtube about it's quality compared to Motion JPEG & what with the difficulties of editing it/learning a whole new editing program I can't be bothered.
Thanks very much for your info......you have made an old budding Orsen Wells very happy