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.
• 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

Links for encoders, converters/transcoders

• Wikipedia's category of Video conversion software

Free

• FireOgg is a Firefox plugin that can convert mp4 to to ogv and webm. Advanced option allows to parametrize codecs, i.e. video (size, framerate, aspect, quality, etc.) and audio quality
• 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.
• ffmpegx for MacIntosh
• SUPER, Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. (see also the Wikipedia article).
• mplayerhq.hu - MEncoder and MPlayer, Win, Linux

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.

• Real Video Editor (convertor for some formats)

Unknown status

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

Other

• MediaInfo displays information about a video file. Read the Mediainfo Wikipedia article

• Gspot is another nice free tool that displays information about at video file. Unfortunately it is outdated (last upgraded in 2007 as of April 2012), i.e. it can't precisely identify new video formats