Help needed with editing software

[GorGuy RIP]

Does anyone know of a good, easy to use, free video editing programme? 

 

I have a lot of my own personal videos I ripped from VHS, camera and DVD to my computer and I want to put a PowerPoint presentation together and cut down the videos to 20 seconds or so.

 

Thanks in advance for all suggestions

 

Gor Guy

[rainman333]

if it is just trimming/cropping out video, i would suggest using avidemux, it's free although there are some video formats it doesn't support.

 

but if you want to do a full blown video editing, like adding text, titles, fading in / out videos, adding multiple sound tracks etc, I would suggest getting a hold of sony vegas, it's not free but

you could prob find a copy out there somewhere

[GorGuy RIP]

if it is just trimming/cropping out video, i would suggest using avidemux, it's free although there are some video formats it doesn't support.

 

but if you want to do a full blown video editing, like adding text, titles, fading in / out videos, adding multiple sound tracks etc, I would suggest getting a hold of sony vegas, it's not free but

you could prob find a copy out there somewhere

 

They are simple Mpeg's

 

Would avidemux do that?

 

No fancy stuff, just cutting down the size, and put one after the other.

[tuk]

No fancy stuff, just cutting down the size, and put one after the other.

 

Be aware, cutting down the size is pretty fancy ..cos it involves codecs and re-encoding your audio/video files.

 

The editor you need depends greatly on the format of the source files ...there is more than one kind of Mpeg.

 

Best thing to do is download a bunch of video editors, then one at a time drag all your source files into the empty timeline of each editor, if the editor doesn't like 1 or more of your files it should complain, if it does complain move on to the next editor ...of course you won't know if it works until you actually re-encode the file which the editor might do without complaining but when you go to play the audio might be out of sync or something.

 

As well as Sony Vegas I would recommend CyberLink PowerDirector Ultimate which, so far, accepts everything I've thrown at it....unlike Adobe's video editor!

[sfstudmuffin]

This may have been asked before......can anybody recommend a good video editing software that is easy to use.  Specifically when it comes to blurring faces.  I have Final Cut Pro but am finding it hard to use.

[Serj]

Sony Vegas Pro 13 .

 

The best!!!

[buttcheese]

This may have been asked before......can anybody recommend a good video editing software that is easy to use.  Specifically when it comes to blurring faces.  I have Final Cut Pro but am finding it hard to use.

 

Here's a tutorial on how to blur with virtualdub

 

http://www.golb.org/?itemid=1056