Free NLE video editing

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What free NLE video editing you recommend?

[Warperus]

Windows Movie Maker is quite good for beginners.
You can do NLE in VirtualDUB even though it's not that convenient.
Also you can do it in pure avisynth scripts. It's no way easy to understand (editing here looks pretty much like programming), but with visualisation tools and understanding of what you are doing you can achieve nearly anything with it.

I don't know of any decent and truly free NLE though. Many video editors have trial period, but in the end developers want some money from you or have pretty much limited product.

Do you consider trial versions?

[Ghitulescu]

Technically WMM is not free, just a free complement. Like "you can have these blurays for free if you buy this bluray player".

A comprehensive list of video editors is here - with images and a short description (plus comments) -> http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-editors-basic

[Yobbo]

There is none. Blender maybe?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

VLMC maybe?

http://trac.videolan.org/vlmc/

[Yobbo]

VLMC holds a lot of promise but it's nowhere near ready to use.

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/318250-VLMC-video-editor

I hope it's still being worked on? The developer blogs/Facebook pages are very quiet...

I really think the new Blender 2.5 is the only candidate at this time (for Windows users). It is ffmpeg-based NLE, I believe? But should be stable and is fairly feature-rich (I haven't used it yet tho').

[PatchWorKs]

Hey, have you checked my 3ad ?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=149302

[santiago79830]

VLMC holds a lot of promise but it's nowhere near ready to use.

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/318250-VLMC-video-editor

I hope it's still being worked on? The developer blogs/Facebook pages are very quiet...

I really think the new Blender 2.5 is the only candidate at this time (for Windows users). It is ffmpeg-based NLE, I believe? But should be stable and is fairly feature-rich (I haven't used it yet tho').

I'd question if Blender is really an editor. It's more of a 3d cgi - program. Any editing capability is really more peripheral than a direct intent.

If you can use Linux, you might take a look at Cinelerra (http://cinelerra.org/). People seem to either really like it or hate it.

[Mug Funky]

this looks very promising:

http://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=164&Itemid=146

lightworks is being made open source. no idea the details - i've signed up for notifications and whatnot.

this could potentially be blender for video - lightworks has a long history (the longest of any digital NLE), however this announcement smacks of "we've taken it as far as it can possibly go without a complete rewrite, and our competitors are killing us, so we hand it to you".

we'll see. even if it's antiquated and completely unintuitive, it is a real NLE that's been proven over and over on long-form jobs (feature films). it's probably just missing out a little in the media management department. perhaps avs3 can be hacked into it? i doubt that'd help.

[Yobbo]

I'd question if Blender is really an editor. It's more of a 3d cgi - program. Any editing capability is really more peripheral than a direct intent.

Well it's definitely more than a 3D imaging program - it animates, renders, etc. The NLE (or "Video Sequence Editor") is an integral part of the process. It supports multiple video & audio tracks and has transitions & effects etc. It's a lot more sophisticated than any other free "NLE" out there!

Great news about Lightworks!

Also tin2tin's DVDSlideshowGUI can now import video via avisynth, so video can be trimmed in, say, AVSPmod and imported into DVDSlideshowGUI, where all sorts of transitions and effects can be applied. Very nifty!

[Yobbo]

Here (http://www.darkscarab.com/tutorials/downloads/Dark%20Scarab%20-%20Sequencer.pdf) is a quick overview of Blender 2.5's Video Sequence Editor. Nice! Multiple audio/video tracks, fast preview scrubbing, chroma-keying, handling of interlaced footage, titling, colour balance, transitions & FX, chroma vectorscope/luma waveform monitor/histogram, support of many input/output formats (ffmpeg) etc etc. Obviously version 2.5 is still in alpha (however sturdy!) so there may be some bugs, but development is strong & fast and an official 2.5 beta is imminent, followed by an official "stable" 2.6 release. Grab the latest build from graphicall.org, though (not the official Blender site).