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Does anyone know about video editing?(self)

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I want to trim videos.

I want to paste videos together.

I want to make thumbnails, with text and pictures.

That’s about it.

Any ideas for soft wear for that.

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In-the-clouds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

Kdenlive on Linux is free. That's my main tool for editing videos, trimming, cutting, and merging clips together.

Gimp is a free image editing program, for both Windows and Linux.

[deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

It appears these are the good programs.

There’s always good programs to fit your needs. My best example is VLC, it’s great.

I consider these programs kind of secret, if you’re not in the know, then you don’t know.

Thank you for sharing. It appears I will be using Gimp and led live.

In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

Yes, like you, I also use VLC for playing videos, on both Linux and Windows machines.

Drewski 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

DaVinci Resolve

hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

https://www.capcut.com/

wristaction 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

openshot

[deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

Man. It won’t play in preview.

I can play the video in open shot. But the traditional preview window won’t play.

Kingdud 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

If you don't mind a CLI interface and hard mode, ffmpeg can do that. Handbrake adds a basic GUI. Other tools add more advanced GUIs on top of that.

[deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

I don’t understand FFmpeg.

Is that all command line?

So like I tell it where I want it cut to, where I want it merged tov?

I looked at it, it appears to pull the most quality, becuse it is the most basic. No translation errors.

Let me look into this. That is what I am doing today. Thank you for the reply.

Kingdud 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

Yeah, so with FFMPEG you'd tell it "I want from 00:00:00.000 to 00:01:13.240 extracted as 'clip1' via 'copy' (so don't re-encode it). Then a separate command would be 'concatenate clips 1-100 together and name the output movie.mkv' There is a HUGE amount of detail. Like, you can change what default subtitles are, change default audio tracks. Copy only certain subtitles/audio tracks, insert new subtitles/audio tracks, etc. But all that commandlinefu is really hard to learn and not super well documented. You'd be shocked to learn how many commercial video editors just use ffmpeg for the actual grunt work of encoding though.

Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

Yes. It's easy. Video editing in general is very easy. Just time consuming. Like 5-10 minutes of editing just for one minute of actual footage. https://www.veed.io is free and probably the easiest editor to use, but many other ones are free as well.

[deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 7 months ago

Thank you. Checking now.