Editing videos

[Fitter]

Hi all!

I'm quite new to the matter and I'd like some advice as regard a free and simple sw, working with formats avi, mpeg and wmv to:

1- trim (cut pieces from) a selection
2- join (append) more clips into one.

I'm searching for light sw that does them both quickly, i.e. without long recoding or other processing and/or the need to set many "strange" parameters.

Thanks a lot for any suggestion :)

[smok3]

for avi files this could be virtualdub (free), for mpeg there is videoredo (not free), no clue about wmv.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

1) An alternative for processing MPEG files would be "TMPGEnc"

2) I've got to believe that the Microsoft freebie, "MovieMaker" can handle your ".WMV" needs

[gellar]

1- trim (cut pieces from) a selection


For this task I can suggest VidCrop

It compresses & crops (cut some pieces) video :p :)

[snowden]

@Fitter:

I have been looking for a long time for something that can handle avi files in a 'direct stream copy' fashion (similar to the way Womble handles MPEG-1/-2 files), with support for AC3 or mp3.

I did come across a program (for AVI + mp3) called AviTricks. It works for the most part, but is a bit buggy (crashes here and there). Wouldn't recommend it for a large project (which is what I would want!!).

Pity I haven't seen anything that supports AC3 in AVI yet...

If you are about to reply to this thread with the words 'Adobe Premier', don't even bother. I'm not going to wait 5-10 minutes for each 40min episode of something i want to clip bits out of (to make a trailer) so premiere can make a 'conformed' audio format...think of it in terms of 22 episodes per season and i have to wait for this to happen evn if i only want like 1 second from an episode. :(