Video editing and conversion

Draft

“Video editing is the process of re-arranging or modifying segments of video to form another piece of video. The goals of video editing are the same as in film editing - the removal of unwanted footage, the isolation of desired footage, and the arrangement of footage in time to synthesize a new piece of footage.” ([1], retrieved 16:46, 2 April 2007 (MEST))

Links

Video editing introductions

• video editing (Wikipedia, short overview)
• non-linear video editing (Wikipedia)

Video editing software - overviews

• Video editing software (Wikipedia, Overview)
• Comparison of video editing software (Wikipedia, good comparison, including price, system requirements, feature sets.)
• List of videoediting software (Wikipedia)
• low-cost video-editing tools

Free editing software

• ILife (Wikipedia) Free on recent Macs.
• Windows Movie Maker (Wikipedia). Free on older Win systems, but can't do MP4 (e.g. won't deal with Nokia N73 movies).
• Windows Live Movie Maker (Wikipedia), On Win VISTA/7. Free download from Microsoft
• VirtualDub, free (GNU) video capture and video processing utility for windows, operates on AVI files. See Wikipedia article.
• Cinelerra (Wikipedia) Free for Linux. There are two versions:
  • Cinelerra CV (community version of cinelerra). See the manual.
  • To install on Ubuntu: see [2] and giss.tv (you have to install all the libraries you find there).
  • Cinelerra Heroine (more the orginal, comes only in source code.)
• Blender (Wikipedia). Multiplatform 3D editor, also can edit videos it seems, but not tested.

Popular commercial editing sofware

Cheaper (< $100) systems

• Adobe Premiere Elements
• Video2x Video workshop and converter (not tested).

Medium-end popular systems, often referred to as the "A-Team"

• Avid
• Adobe Premiere
• Final Cut Pro (Apple)

Specialized commercial

• Software to create Movie Credits VideoTagger

Encoders, converters/transcoders

Free

• MEncoder (Wikipedia) Free converter)
• XMedia-recode. Can handle most formats. Page in German, English version of softwar exists. Read the Wikipedia article

Adware and nagware

• MediaCoder for Windows. Read Wikipedia's MediaCoder. Probably one of the best free programs, but you will have to cope with ad/nagware.
• mplayerhq.hu - MEncoder and MPlayer Official site
• Real Video Editor (convertor for some formats)
• SUPER, Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. (see also the Wikipedia article).

Unknown status

• Adobe Media Encoder (Win). This product comes with Flash and CS5 suites, but it looks like it can be downloaded (not tested).