I played w/ Avidemux for about a half hour last night before I posted my suggestion.rosacer wrote:@ idamtnboy
At CNET the reviews says avidemux is not good , it has 2 1/1 stars only. All kind of complaints
Have you tried it ?
OK, here's the skinny, as I see it. You can have a free and not so good program, or you can pay and have a good program. As for the former Avidemux fairs about the same as all the others, no free program gets rave user reviews. ekubaskie's recommended program, multiquence, has only 2 stars. Its replacement, Videomeld, is too new to have gained many reviews. Softpedia gives it a 3.3 by 8 users. CNET doesn't show it yet. It's going to be free only for a limited time according to the home page. As for the latter, the programs on CNET that have 5 stars cost money, anywhere from about $100 for a number of them to $2600 for Adobe's video editor. I have used VideoReDo TVSuite and it seems to be pretty good. But it's free for 15 days only after which you are limited to editing a max length of 10 minutes. It's priced at $95.99. It gets 4 stars on CNET.
Search for video editor on CNET. Many of the free programs, and the lesser paid programs, are limited in the types of videos they handle, or in what their focus is.
I haven't delved into video editing much at all, largely because it is a jungle. The only thing that is standard in the world of video that I have been able to determine is -- they all show moving or changing images. Picture formats have an arm full of standards, both in resolution and frames per second, and a basket full of file formats. And in the constant pursuit of something new, regardless of whether it really is better, new formats for both pictures and files are being added every year. The good news is that apparently many of the file formats are mostly what are called "wrappers" that package an otherwise more common format for the video content so all the editors have to do is strip the wrappers off, modify the content, and then repackage the content in a different wrapper. But since I haven't studied video, and not sure if I want to, that's all I can tell you about that.
All I can say is I wish you good luck. Be ready to tear your hair out if you want to combine video off of DVDs w/ downloaded videos. It can be done, but the process getting there ain't pretty. If you happen to find a really good video editor that works great for mucking with YouTube videos, and costs less than about $250, let me know. I've been trying to find one to keep the minister and admin ass't at church happy. I haven't succeeded yet, especially with the admin ass't.
