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Ok, try this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31862634/i-need-to-cut-mp4-videos-a-part-at-the-beginning-and-a-part-at-the-end-in-a-bat

As I suspected, ffmpeg with a little script. Not sure what os you are using though, or what the file formats are.

Okay, all the YouTube stats at the bottom, they haven't removed the YouTube background from a recording, those are graphics that they've created to mimic the YouTube UI. YouTube's video title/stats use the font Roboto which can be downloaded directly from Google: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto

The title is bold 18pt and the stats are normal 14pt.

The thumbs up/down icons have either been recreated from the SVG paths or just re-drawn or maybe cut out of a screenshot. (Probably recreated as vectors).

This is a weird clip. I have a feeling that Adobe apps aren't reading it correctly, because Premiere, Audition, and Media Encoder all seem to not understand that it has four channels, but some other, non-Adobe apps do. What you can do, even though this kinda sucks, is you can bring the file into Handbrake and use that to convert it to a file that has discrete multiple channels that Premiere understands. I've confirmed that this works, see this screenshot for how I set up the audio channels.

Look up the benchmark charts for the hardware you want to use. Check the AVID forums for advise on which video-card you should get. Of course a Quadro would be an ideal choice for the Avid software, but prepare yourself for a second mortgage. You can also check the CreativeCow forums for extra advise.

Try out Fusion.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion

There is a free version and it is basically a poor mans Nuke. Some people even prefer it over After Effects but I'm not one of them.

Oh and one last thing, editing software, compositing and the word "easy" don't go together. Sorry.

BTW you say you're in highscool, Adobes student license thing is quite affordable. http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/buy/students.html

An 'easier' way would be to use a dedicated subtitle tool like: aegisub.

Though, it's only easier if you already know how to use it. If you think you might do a lot of subtitle work, it could be worthwhile to learn. Then you can offer both hard and soft subtitles.

https://speedof.me/

This will tell us how fast you can download.

Are you on wifi? Hard wiring in will help.

My up/down aren't even that good, but if it's taking you 2 days to download 100GB, your speeds are probably less than 30Mpbs.

For reference, I could download that in less than an hour. Uploading that though, I'm near a day.

Check your ISP to see if you can upgrade if this is the issue.

Lastly, you didn't mention what you're downloading to. Straight onto your computers harddrive? Or an external hard drive.

This could factor in as well.

I'm using Adobe Premiere Rush.. It's really good and has all the features I need. I'm using the free version, it has no water marks and you can still use most features

Hi! I was so happy to find this (especially seeing it was posted one day ago). I got a Canon MiniDV ZR900, and I’ve been looking into buying cables to transfer video onto my 2015 MacBook. Does anyone know if these comments apply to the ZR900 as well? After some research I was going to try this dv to FireWire cable 800 along with this Apple thunderbolt to FireWire adapter but would love confirmation that it would work. Thanks in advance & good luck to you too! Sorry I’m not very helpful in reference to your question lol.

hey not sure if you still need help, but one of the videos in this link shows a website that does thermal imaging. https://www.tiktok.com/amp/tag/thermaldrawing

You could try Shotcut. I haven't used it myself, but I have a friend who has and she seems happy with it and best of all it's free and open source.

In terms of sounds, try searching CC0 sounds in your search engine.

There is also some great cheap/free music on bandcamp.com

In most audio editing programs you can edit out a sound provided you get an isolated cut of it. Keep in mind it may cause a warble in the actual dialogue. Audacity is free provided you can export and reinport the audio: https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/remove-background-noise-audacity

If you want something like photoshop, that is free and will even run on low spec hardware (such as a chromebook) try photopea.com.

It resembles photoshop and mirrors a lot of it's functionality so if you ever want to transition to photoshop afterwards you'll be a step ahead.

- For future reference, look at the sub sidebar to check if your question is relevant / use reddits search engine to research first.

In general if your question is considered too off-topic or has been answered well multiple times before it might be deleted by mods.

I will highly suggest you to try davinci resolve, in my opinion is the best and most user friendly software at this moment, Powerful all in one solutions. And the best part ... you can get it for free https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Most of the big editing software producers have their own pretty good tutorials online, but you can always check Skillshare or something like that too. Youtube is hit and miss with all things, and tutorials are no exception. There are great ones and horrible ones.

If you're planning on using Davinci Resolve, their training looks pretty great: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training

This doesn’t have anything to do with what editing program to use, but I want to offer one piece of advice in anticipation of a problem you may run into: before you start editing it, convert your footage. You can do this using Handbrake to convert your footage to H.264, but even better (if you’re ok with the file sizes being very large) is to use another program to convert your footage to either ProRes or DNxHR.

The reason for this is because a lot of screen recording software (and maybe capture cards, I’m not sure) record footage using a variable frame rate, which is good for saving space but bad for editing. So the goal, by converting, is to make the footage constant frame rate. Again, this can be done using Handbrake and making sure it is set to constant frame rate, but if you can spare the hard drive space you should go ahead and use this step to convert to ProRe or DNxHR, which are special codecs designed specifically for editing, and they will give you better performance than H.264 when working with your footage.

I know I just threw a lot at you, so I’m happy to answer any questions you may have. I know it doesn’t answer your initial question at all, but this issue comes up very commonly and I want to try and help you avoid it.

What I would try is downloading Handbrake and using that to create a transcode with Constant Framerate enabled. If you’re not comfortable using that program just let me know and I’d be happy to arrange for you to send me the video file and I can make a transcode for you.

First off, seeing as though that's pirating, which is very illegal, I doubt you'd get any help on how to "download movies in 4k quality".

Why is this in r/editing? this isn't an editing problem.

For your file opening problem, go download vlc, it's a workhorse and will open literally anything you throw at it.

For photoshop it depends, if you want a digital image manipulator then Krita or GIMP are the most mature projects.

But also check out Paint.NET and Pixlr.

https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-photoshop/?license=free

Regarding a video editor, Lightworks has a great selection of options for a free editor, but if you want something simpler then check out HitFilm Express or Shotcut.

Hope that helps =)

These two tools

http://download.cnet.com/Visual-Subst/3000-2248_4-10598834.html

http://www.randomvideo.com/products/mediamover_avid.html (trial is enough)

along with the internal MediaTool will make your life a lot easier in the long run and can basically save you a couple thousand dollars for a Unity Isis.

Protip: ALWAYS check the Media Creation Settings and point everything to the substed drive/folder of your current project. If you do this correctly you can have an infinite amount of projects media files on a single harddrive, always available by substing and moving, if necessary (it basically makes a drive out of a folder as long as you run the program), without having to cramp everything into one drive.

Hey mate, sadly it's a windows machine, however I should imagine there's similar software for windows and I can look for it. I'm not having much luck yet, but I think that's because it's difficult to know what I'm looking for exactly. There's lots of livestreaming software, and all would use a webcam, and probably any camera hooked up to a capture card.

Making it work with (and convert) the output of the I/O card that feeds the client monitor is the interesting part that I'm struggling with. What is your setup exactly when you do this?

Are you using a blackmagic I/O card like ultrastudio for example? When you run camtwist, does it allow the I/O card to be a selectable device from which it captures and processes video? Does skype then use 'CamTwist' as a webcam?

I see on this section of the camtwist website that it works with capture cards http://camtwiststudio.com/works-with-hdmi-capture-cards/ But I only have playback card, and in any case, unless you can loop the ouput of a card that is both capture and playback, back in to itself, I'm curious how it works.

If you really want to do it yourself you can download YouTube vids using this: https://www.4kdownload.com/products/product-videodownloader Then download mpeg streamclip...set an in and out point...and hit export: http://www.squared5.com/ Whatever works for you.

.flv is a flash video file... MPEG Streamclip works well

*.flv isn't listed specifically as a convertible file type on the site but I've been using an old version for flash files since 2009. I'd be kind of surprised if they killed that functionality.

There are a number of ways to transcode your footage, MPEG Stream Clip is a free option, Apple Compressor being another, though more expensive (if you pay for your software) option.

Hi naokomiyano. I would suggest Olive Video Editor. It's Open Source, meaning its free, and quite powerfull. I did test it, and since I edit mostly HD up to 4K video, it did perform perfectly. Here is the link: https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/

The free version of DaVinci Resolve is about as good as you can get. Some functionality is blocked but nothing you absolutely have to have to do professional work. It does have a steep learning curve.

Not sure, but if you choose to learn it, they have just released some official books here for free with certificates of completion if you do the free online exams afterwards. They're about 200-400 pages each with files to support.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training

Davinci Resolve - Free, industry standard program.

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Scroll to the bottom of the page to find the download links, you do not need studio.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Use JDownloader. For literally anything. You can grab almost every recource from every streaming sit and seperate it by audio, video, thumbnail, etc.. This prevents you from having to use any kind of third-party website to convert the video for you. It takes a few minutes to download and set up properly, but it's worth it.

https://jdownloader.org

Of you have a very powerful PC (especially a good GPU) , and don't wanna export bigger than 1080p,go woth davinci resolve. Chances are that this is not your case, because if you can afford such a good PC you can afford the software.

For mid-level machines, you could try using an open source alternative. The ones that I know of are:

Kdenlive: Originally for linux, was getting ported for windows, I don't know how reliable it is now. It's still a beta.

https://kdenlive.org/en/download/

Blender: It's a 3D software, but there are ways to edit with it, if you do a little search.

http://www.blender.org

Get a program called Handbrake. Insert your .vob, output as whatever you need to edit (high quality .mp4 will work, or anything lossless if your software can handle it.)

edit, export as mp4 with h.264 codec, done.

The GDrive Mobile Pro are great if you have thunderbolt3. Very small, incredibly fast, SSD (better for lugging around), powered through the Thunderbolt port so you only need one cable... but super expensive. 1TB is $450 right now, which is insane, but also "on sale." On the other hand, you can get a Seagate 8TB USB3 drive for $140. It's slower, will have multiple cables (power and data), has moving parts so it's a little less safe to carry around...

There are some enclosures that have 2 disks set up as a mirror, which is great (Like the G-RAIDs.) Copy everything to the drive and it automatically backs up to the other drive in the enclosure as long as you have it set up that way, which you should do. Way safer since it backs up to a second disk on the fly, but still bad since all data would be gone if it gets run over by a truck or gets left on a train or is stolen or grabbed by a hawk that thinks it's a rabbit or you drop it in a puddle or... you get the idea.

Whatever you end up getting, BACK IT ALL UP to multiple drives in different locations.

I just picked up one of these 32" BenQ and freaking love it. I also have the BenQ SW271 4k and it's been a great monitor as well.

I actually am doing this with my videos as of late! I edit the videos with Premiere, After Effects, and Davinci Resolve. All videos are edited digitally. I then transfer the videos using an HDMI to AV converter. https://www.amazon.com/NOVPEAK-Converter-Composite-Adapter-Blue-Ray/dp/B01N0HGKD2

The AV side of the converter is connected to an old VCR. I also have a VHS tape in there to record the digital footage. I use 2 different tapes depending on what I'm doing. One is a brand new tape for cleaner transfers and the other one I constantly re-use/tape over to give more graininess, washed out colors, and artifacts. Once the footage is copied to the tape, I use an AV to digital converter. https://www.amazon.com/ION-Analog-Digital-Converter-Composite/dp/B002MT7JFQ

Once the footage is imported back into the computer, I re-edit/trim some of the footage back using either Premiere or Davinci Resolve.

I feel like if you're coming from VHS footage, you should get a VCR and the AV to HDMI converter and then edit the footage digitally. It's just easier control over what you have and can make the edits cleaner or faster cuts.

I remember in high school, our film class was the first one that had a computer to edit with. Everyone was pretty intimidated with using the computer. Our teacher made us and basically conditioned us to use two VCR's and an analogue board to mix effects using two or three tapes. It's not as fun as I remember for as much as it seems like fun.

Just my two cents on helping you out but good luck either way! I hope to see what you create in the near future!!!

Well here ya go, this is the monitor hands down from what I've gotten from this subreddit, its a monitor I want to game and edit perfectly on. Its 27in 1080p IPS(for color) 1ms response time(for gaming) freesync, 144hz(for gaming) https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-VG279Q-Monitor-FreeSync-Adaptive/dp/B07KXHTRT5 its only 310 right now and its 315 at bestbuy if you wanna go to store.

Using an external recorder is a good idea, and a phone can be a great recorder if used correctly. You may not need the lapel mic. If there is a lectern or where you can put the phone on a flat surface near the speaker, the internal mic can do a good job. You should get an app for the phone designed for recording, such as the Rode Rec app.

If the speaker is moving around, a lapel mic might be better. I suggest this one which is designed to be used with a phone with no extra battery.

When you shoot, roll the audio first and let it keep rolling for the entire event. When you roll the camera, don't stop and start, just keep rolling. That will mean you will have to re-sync. When you first roll the camera clap your hands 2 or 3 times at 1-second intervals. Those hand claps will have a distinctive appearance on the audio tracks of your editing software so it will be easy to sync up the external recorder with your camera.

Hope this helps!

Davinci has a $6 kindle instructional guide that walks you through the entire software and provides real footage to practice with. It takes a bit more time, but it's very easy to follow.

I use this and it's amazing. I also have a workflow that uses extreme fps in preview (cineform 720p with 14-core cpu/1080 ti) so I use a 1080p 240Hz PG258Q for previews and the 1440p 27" monitor if i need to do anything other than see the scene for .004 seconds.

Thanks looks like this is the most affordable firewire disk

I just use a $30 DAC that powers both my headphones and speakers so that I can use both or just one of them at a time. This prevents having to change the output in software because it is all over one usb input into the computer. Also improves sound quality. You can buy much higher quality DACS and many editors do, but on a budget this one works just fine.