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 16:05, 2 April 2007 (MEST))

Links

Video editing

• 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 recent Win systems, but can't do MP4 (e.g. won't deal with Nokia N73 movies).
• Cinélarra (Wikipedia) Free for Linux
• 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)

Encoders, converters/transcoders

(not complete)

• MediaCoder (Wikipedia). For Windows.
• MEncoder (Wikipedia) Free converter) mplayerhq.hu - MEncoder and MPlayer Official site
• Real Video Editor (convertor for some formats)