Video editing and conversion
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“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.
- DVDVideoSoft Free Studio, a freeware set of multimedia programs (including convertors) for Windows. Read Wikipedia's Free Studio
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 software exists. Read the Wikipedia article
- Miro video converter Converts to mp4, ogg and webm.
- 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).