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eco, if you know how to program or not afraid of it you can do some serious editing on yes I know don't say it Windows, using this avisynth.org.
The language is super easy to learn and with 4 lines of code you can do some serious editing especially on those really large files on a really old computer. Here is an example concatenating two different video files and overlaying your favorite mp3 on top of it.
Code:
a = avisource ("C:\images\demargo\MVI_0988.AVI", false )
b = avisource ("C:\images\demargo\MVI_0989.AVI", false )
combined = a + b
theaudio= MPASource ("C:\projects\ILoveLindyLex.mp3", normalize = false) + MPASource ("C:\projects\ILoveLindyLex.mp3", normalize = false)
final_project=AudioDub(combined, theaudio.Trim(0,combined.FrameCount())
My son turned one and I already have over 60GB of video, most of it rubish cause my camera skills are /dev/null.
Anyway, I was wondering what programs you guys would recommend for croping, ordering, ... videos.
I'm not looking to make DVDs with fancy menus yet, just a good stable tool to keep the good and bin the rest.
Thanks for your advice.
For advanced stuff most people use cinelerra, but don't ask me about it. I never used it and all I do with videos can be done with mencoder in command line (just cutting some pieces and that stuff).
lindylex, thanks for the info but 'sadly' I don't have windows at home. i92guboj, I tried them both and found cinelerra to be way over the top for my needs as you said it might be. It looks like I might be going the mencoder way if I can figure it out fast or I'll fall back on Avidemux.
-idx means reindex the file, so you can jump to any random position at any time
-ss is the starting position
-endpos if my memory serves correctly is not the absolute ending position, but an offset, counting from -ss
-oac copy -ovc copy means just copy the streams, do not recode
So, to crop from minute 7 to minute 9 you would so -ss 00:07:00 -endpos 00:02:00. Not excellent, but certainly damn fast and in any case it's enough for my needs.
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