help me be DeMille for 60 seconds - for free
January 2, 2007 12:37 PM Subscribe
Wanted: Decent, small, lightweight, free, safe software for doing very basic editing of Quicktime movies (on a PC, not a Mac).
Response by poster: spitbull, I appricate your position. However, I have a digital camera that takes sub 60-second videos that download in QT, and I really just want to be able to perhaps trim a few seconds off the start and end of the video, nothing more. $30 seems like a lot of money for that function.
posted by anastasiav at 1:58 PM on January 2, 2007
posted by anastasiav at 1:58 PM on January 2, 2007
anastasiav: "However, I have a digital camera that takes sub 60-second videos that download in QT, and I really just want to be able to perhaps trim a few seconds off the start and end of the video, nothing more. $30 seems like a lot of money for that function."
Most digital cameras that shoot video have two formats (my Sony shoots both AVI (gods know what codec, I don't use it) and MPEG2). I realize this does not help you with any videos you may currently have, but, perhaps in the future you can shoot in some MPEG or other more-open-than QT format?
posted by Xoder at 2:38 PM on January 2, 2007
Most digital cameras that shoot video have two formats (my Sony shoots both AVI (gods know what codec, I don't use it) and MPEG2). I realize this does not help you with any videos you may currently have, but, perhaps in the future you can shoot in some MPEG or other more-open-than QT format?
posted by Xoder at 2:38 PM on January 2, 2007
Avidemux2 can work with .mov but how well depends a lot on versions and audio black magic.
posted by arruns at 4:21 PM on January 2, 2007
posted by arruns at 4:21 PM on January 2, 2007
Response by poster: realize this does not help you with any videos you may currently have, but, perhaps in the future you can shoot in some MPEG or other more-open-than QT format?
Its a Nikon Coolpix 5600. If there is a way to change the type of movie it takes, I can't seem to discover it.
posted by anastasiav at 5:26 PM on January 2, 2007
Its a Nikon Coolpix 5600. If there is a way to change the type of movie it takes, I can't seem to discover it.
posted by anastasiav at 5:26 PM on January 2, 2007
From a still camera, it's likely to be MPEG-1 or MJPEG in a .mov container (less likely, MPEG-2 or H.264; even less likely, one of the Apple-specific codecs like Sorenson, etc).
SUPER © and RAD Video Tools are two free apps which, between them, will handle pretty much anything you throw at them. Use one or the other to convert to .AVI with a suitable codec - if you're going to recompress the final result to, say, DivX / XviD, then use uncompressed or a lossless codec like HuffyUV - then edit in VirtualDub or whatever.
(Beware - the GUIs on both those tools suck!)
posted by Pinback at 6:34 PM on January 2, 2007
SUPER © and RAD Video Tools are two free apps which, between them, will handle pretty much anything you throw at them. Use one or the other to convert to .AVI with a suitable codec - if you're going to recompress the final result to, say, DivX / XviD, then use uncompressed or a lossless codec like HuffyUV - then edit in VirtualDub or whatever.
(Beware - the GUIs on both those tools suck!)
posted by Pinback at 6:34 PM on January 2, 2007
Avid Free.
I don't think it's as easy as could be (it's a derivative of film/video editing software.) It'll convert everything to DV (from whatever format it is; and it handles quicktime just fine.)
But the price is right.
posted by filmgeek at 9:09 PM on January 2, 2007
I don't think it's as easy as could be (it's a derivative of film/video editing software.) It'll convert everything to DV (from whatever format it is; and it handles quicktime just fine.)
But the price is right.
posted by filmgeek at 9:09 PM on January 2, 2007
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VirtualDub and edit it there.
posted by Shecky at 1:27 PM on January 2, 2007