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Just a heads up if you're looking to trim off excess footage - Avidemux is really simple/fast (doesn't re-encode): http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
MP4v2 is usually the format you'd want to save in, depending on your camera.
I use a couple of programs; Avidemux for extracting the frames from a video and Photoscape for compiling them into a gif. Both programs are free and easy to use. I also delete every other frame in the series to reduce the file size.
I can also recommend Avidemux to cut the videos to only the parts you want to save, that ways you can keep shadowplay to whatever length you want, and then cut out the relevant part.
It's as easy as select point A, and point B, and save as video file, and it's done in a few seconds because it doesn't have to re-encode the whole video.
MKVToolNix lets you do this with MKV files.
For other formats, I use Avidemux but it doesn't mux subtitles.
To freshen up your memory, check this post for how to do it via ffmpeg cli.
For PC footage Avidemux is a nice free option that will work for just cutting and exporting to MP4 or whatever. It's not as powerful as Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere but works great for simple edits.
Recently I was looking for a basic video editor to trim down my ShadowPlay recordings. Normally I would use VirtualDub for that but it doesn't support MP4. Eventually I found Avidemux, which works very similar but supports MP4. Both can do stream copy, allowing you to trim a file without re-encoding the video, so long as you cut at keyframes.
Neither is particularly advanced but should be quite sufficient for basic trimming and splitting of longer videos.
I use Avidemux for some quick trimming jobs. Seems to work nicely. I can also apply a resizing filter to 50% so that my gifs aren't so massive. It's a bit difficult to figure out, but once you understand how it works, it's pretty simple. If you end up using it and have questions, just let me know and I'll help you out.
I use Avidemux to cut out what I want to make a GIF of. (Remember to set video output to the Mpeg-4 Avc x264). This is the format I find best for both GIFs and YouTube.
Then just upload to GifyCat or similar if you don't want to make them yourself in Ps or whatever.
The quality of the gif is a poor representation of the quality of the vid when using online solutions, but hey, it works.
This artifact is called combing, and it's related to how you play the video back. You can help this issue by re-encoding the video with a deinterlacing filter.
What are you trying to do with this video? I would download Avidemux, open your video in it, and then on the left, where it says Video: copy, select Video: MPEG-4 AVC. Then click "Filters", Deinterlace, and try one of the deinterlacing filters you see. Save your video out, and check its quality now. Try a few filters until you see one that looks a lot better. (Unless someone else has suggestions on the best interlacing filters? I would try yadif and DG bob first.)
If you can upload this video clip to http://dropcanvas.com/, I can try out different filters for you and let you know how to fix it.
What codec is it using? You can tell by opening it with Gspot. Try renaming the extension to AVI (generic container) or MP4 and see if it'll accept it.
Otherwise, grab AviDemux and use that to trim it.
If you just want to make an SVCD, you can also use Avi2Dvd. It should make the process fairly simple.
I bought FRAPS during the alpha and I think it's worth it. Not sure which version they added the feature but the newest version includes the ability to keep a buffer going so once you hit record it saves the previous 30 seconds or so as well. This way you never miss something cool that happened but you don't have to record everything constantly. Note, you still take the slight FPS hit like you're recording you just don't fill up your HDD.
One thing to note about FRAPS though is it records huge uncompressed vids and breaks it into 4GB chunks. You'll need some other software to stitch the vids back together and then compress them. I use AVIDemux cause it's free and easy.
If you have an Nvidia card, Shadowplay / "Instant replay" isn't too hard to set up. I have mine set up to capture the last 2 minutes of gameplay, then I can hit Alt-F10 to save it out to a file if something silly happened.
If I feel like sharing it, I also edit it in avidemux which is a super simple piece of software to easily cut things and export.
Avidemux has a decent selection of video filters if HandBrake isn't enough.
It won't do soft subtitles or HD audio formats so you will have to mux those in manually afterwards.
If the built in filters aren't enough, it also has AviSynth support.
I use AVI DeMux and TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works (Not free, but worth it) for my editing.
But for just cutting like that, AVI Demux is what you'd want. Works well, works fast and it's free.
I use Adobe Premiere Elements to edit my videos and it doesn't recognise multiple audio tracks, so what I do is use a program called Avidmux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux . It allows you to save out either track you want, which you then can import into whichever video editor you like.
Edit: It will also play all audio tracks together.
here are the basics :
You have a container, can be MKV or MP4 (mpg and avi also are older container types)
Inside this container you can have multiple streams. Usually one video stream and one audio stream. The container is there to tie them together and to keep them in sync while playing them. a container can also contain subtitles, metadatas, images and other things.
Each streams has it's own codecs, you probably have heard about some of them : mp3, aac, AC3, DTS, FLAC, opus are audio codecs. While h265, h265, VP9, Xvid, mpeg are video codecs.
MKV is a flexible container, you can put a lot of different codecs inside, it will playback if the player can handle the codecs. Most of the time you'll find x264 for video and AC3/DTS for audio.
MP4 is more strict and only specific codecs can be used. For video you can use h263, h264, h265 (Xvid, x264, x265), and only AAC for audio.
So if you have a MKV containing a x264 video and a DTS audio, you only have to transcode the audio to AAC and then wrap the original video with the new audio in a MP4 container. It's faster to do since video encoding is a very long process, while audio encoding is fast. It also better for quality because each time you encode the video you will lose some details.
However, since MP4 can't handle the soft subtitles you usually find in a MKV, you have to burn them in the image, thus you have to encode the video anyway.
If you want to play with streams and containers, you can try the soft cedesse recommended. You can try Avidemux as well. More advanced people will use the command line program FFmpeg. Video encoding is a broad an complicated world.
I hope things are more clear now, and sorry about my english.
From thread: "PSA: You can trim your Shadowplay videos without re-encoding":
>I'm not sure if everyone knew about this so I figured I would share it. If you wanted to make a gfycat of a clip you can trim it with out any video editing software.
>Load up your video, pick your two points with the A and B buttons, and hit save. Oh, make sure to change the output format to MP4 Muxer. Hope this helps someone out :)
About Avidemux (from website):
>Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license. The program was written from scratch by Mean, but code from other people and projects has been used as well. Patches, translations and even bug reports are always welcome.
Can't wait! Personally I use either avidemux for simple trimming and appending or HitFilm 4 Express for making more edits, both are FOC too and I dislike Windows Movie Maker.
I loved iMovie in the past but don't own a Mac now so these are my choices.
I guess I should have provided my software suggestion in my previous post. I think that Avidemux will do most, if not all, of what you said you were looking for.
Edit: typo in software name - the most important part of the post!
It's actually pretty easy.
Gather the clips that you want to use. If you don't have any then use WEBMaker (link in the sidebar) to make some.
Depending on how many clips you have, you might want to add a slow motion effect because gfycat has a 15 second time limit for webms. Avidemux is free and allows you to do this (video -> filters -> change fps).
Download MKVtool and use it to compile the files (first add the clip you want to start with, then right click it and choose 'append').
Not on Mac myself but Avidemux seems to have a Mac version available:
Drag and drop raw onto Avidemux window to open
Set Video Output to something like x264 or xvid and click Filters
Select Subtitles then double-click on SSA/ASS/SRT, pick the subtitle file, OK, Close when loaded in to Active Filters column
Audio Output can be left at Copy or MP3 Lame if there are sync issues
Output format MP4
Save the video
I also use FFMPEG to hardsub which has a Mac version but I only know how to do commands via Windows for it.
Depending on the file container, Using a computer you can split the file without re-encoding . Avidemux is free and easy to use. http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ just set the video and audio output to "copy" and then use the slider to select start and end points.
Nope. Just plain OBS MultiPlatform on GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which is a bunch of years old and does not seem to be supported by ShadowPlay. Then it was cropped using Avidemux. The only trick here is using 60fps.
I've actually even used http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ if you need a FOSS editor to just overlay some mask images and cut up your clips in a pinch.
OBS is the standard for FOSS capture & streaming, though there's many other apps that can do some or all the same things, e.g. VLC can do capture and streaming too (e.g. triggered by a 1click/hotkey'd .bat file in Windows), and both are using the x264 libraries that also power the other stages of your editing pipeline, such as Handbrake for transcoding & compressing.
Audio is trickier, I think people would suggest Audacity to do editing, and again OBS for capture, though iirc Dxtory has better options for capturing difference simultaneous sources (e.g. keeping game, mic and comms app sounds in separate channels from the get-go).
Tools I'd recommend using :
- OBS, the interwebs is full of guides on how to set it up. For this all you need is local recording. I'd recommend setting up start/stop recording keybindings.
- gfycat drag and drop the recording for your conversion pleasure :) 15 seconds is length cap!
- Avidemux, for editing length of your recordings. Any editor will do the work.
I'd open the replay, skip to where I want the recording to start and with the keybindings I start and stop the recording. The uploading part is self-explanatory. If you haven't already bound keys for replay navigation, then get started! It will save you time if you're able to navigate the replay from your keyboard. Personally I use the numpad to host all the keybindings.
Oh and good luck!
I'm not sure if there's really bad blood or not. Avidemux uses its own fork of ffmpeg, but so do a lot of other projects. As far as I know there's nothing like the conflict between libav and ffmpeg.
Avidemux can do a lot of stuff that ffmpeg can't do alone, but the things they can both do, ffmpeg generally does better. I use both.
Avidemux is GUI oriented and can make use of more codecs than those provided by ffmpeg.
Here's some really old screenshots:
I play whatever interests me, which usually ends up being old console games and small, independent PC games. I use Open Broadcaster Software to record (and stream to Twitch, when I do live streams.) When I need to do small, quick edits to a video, I use avidemux.
Avidemux is what I use for editing these clips and I think it'll serve your purpose pretty well. It lets you edit videos using keyframes so you can skim through the movie in a few minutes and find the nude-y scenes without having to actually watch the entire thing. And it doesn't have any playback problems, not for me anyway.
I've read/heard that Avidemux is a good free video editing program. I have not personally used it. I use Sony Vegas.
EDIT: Check this out. https://www.reddit.com/r/VideoEditing/comments/19v6u5/basic_guide_to_pc_video_editing_software/
Avidemux. Set video and audio to copy and output to flv muxer. Cutting works with setting the start of the part you want to get rid of with the A icon, the end with the B icon and then pressing del. When you save, you have to manually enter .flv at the end.
For my participation on some of your posts, I use DVDVideoSoft Free Studio for getting your YouTube videos, Avidemux for non-linear video viewer, and Reddit Enhancement Suite source copy for copying your templates.
As far as I know, a lot of AVIs use an MPEG-4 Video (XVID) stream and MKVs uses H.264 stream. Officially, Roku only accepts videos with an H.264 video stream. Unofficially, Roku will also play MP4 files with MPEG-4 video. This means that you can put your videos in MP4 container, without really converting it, and it will play on the Roku.
This process is called remuxing and it cuts down on conversion time incredibly. On a decent computer, it’ll only take a minute or two from start to finish. To remux our video, you can use Avidemux, which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. If you’re using Mac OS X Lion, download Avidemux 2.5.4.
If your MKV and AVIs still cannot be played on the Roku, you will need to trnascode or convert your media. I've had the pleasure of using EaseFab video converter ultimate to convert all media files (including MKV, VOB, AVI, movies on my DVD and Blu-ray discs) for playback on my Roku 3 via Plex. The output quality is excellent and see no difference with the original media files.
PS: MKV is the norm for high definition video content. Usually, these files have a 5.1 surround sound audio track. There are two issues with these 5.1 audio MKV files. The main issue lies with Dolby Digital and DTS audio. These files only work over USB and the audio is only supported via pass through. This means Roku won’t help you out if your system doesn't support 5.1 DTS audio. So you need to convert your media files, too.
First you need to get that DRV file onto your computer which can be quite tricky. Another alternative would be to stream from the DVR to your Computer and record it. I'm sure someone with better technical knowledge can tell you more about either option.
Once you have a video file on your computer it gets quite simple. If the video is still too long cut it down to the bit you want to show (something like Avidemux is perfectly fine for that) and afterwards just upload it to the host of your choice.
edit: I see OP deleted his post, so this is all looks a bit pointless...
Video files are not encoded as a collection of individual frames. Stepping backwards one frame is not merely a trivial reversal of the process of stepping forward one frame.
Anyway, you might try this: http://devel.mplayer2.org/ticket/49#comment:8 Or try using AviDemux.
Download Avidemux, it can repackage video in different container formats, as well as re-encode audio and video (or bake in subtitles, so I can watch anime on my phone).
Lightworks for Windows is the most powerful free editor for Windows that I know of. If you are doing lighter stuff try Avidemux which is can be used on Windows, Linux, and Macs. Also Microsoft Live Movie Maker is pretty decent and easy for simple stuff.
Screenshot of my Fraps when I record: http://i.imgur.com/v3ZsU.png
Screenshot of Avidemux when I render the video: http://i.imgur.com/XX5Mw.png
Also, click Configure under Video (where you select MPEG-4 ASP Xvid) and slide the quality from 4 to 5.
Basically you just drag each 4GB raw Fraps video into Avidemux one at a time, in order, then change the settings to match what i have listed, and go to File > Save > Save Video. Call it Whatever.avi and upload to Youtube. Done deal.
Get Avidemux here.
He just told me he did. I assumed different, thankyou for the feedback.
He used one program called 'Andreamosaic' that splits it up into a mosaic, and another program called 'avidemux' that splits up a movie into jpeg stills.
If anyone's interested in doing this here's the links to the programs:
Out of curiosity, if one of the unfixed VOB files is renamed .mpg does it fast-forward any better?
Also, would Avi-Demux help fix them? I ask because it's freeware.
Use this for recording then upload to youtube or directly to reddit, super easy to do:
Record as mkv or mp4. If you record as mkv then you need to change it to mp4 to upload to reddit. avidemux can change mkv to mp4.
I believe youtube can take mkv.
Avidemux can do that kind of trimming without reencoding (if video/audio output is set to copy). But you will be limited to cutting at keyframes (basically, each half a second with shadowplay vidoes, and 1-2 seconds with OBS (depends on settings)).
Avidemux (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/) is perfect for that. It is unbelievably light and allows you cutting and appending without re-encoding. Just make sure you cut at keyframes. For appending your videos have to be of the same resolution, but you can quickly add borders to one of them, also without much re-encoding.
On first glance it looks barren, but it is really powerful and stable!! (!!!)
Have a look at Avidemux and this tutorial on splicing videos
It's not super difficult to make a supercut like you're asking. It will require downloading and reviewing all of her videos though... so sounds like you're the perfect person for the job!
Maybe you could count the time(frames) between tracer rounds? Counting the frames over a few seconds should be good enough to avoid big measurement errors.
With avidemux for example, you can advance through your video files frame.
I don't have this menu (OSX). But it's highly likely a lossless cut of the original media.
If you want to cut media and want to be sure, you can do the same with Avidemux ensure you select copy for both video and audio.
If you don't want any quality loss, open the video with Avidemux, go to Audio > Save audio track.
If the audio is encoded with something else than aac or mp3, you may have trouble playing it with a standard audio player.
In this case, use Audacity, open your video with it, choose File > Export and select the codec you want.
It will be faster with Avidemux.
You can cut videos without re-encoding them is you cut at a keyframe. You can navigate from a keyframe to another with the << and >> buttons in avidemux, place your A/B markers at the begining and end of the segment.
Be sure to set video and audio to "copy" on the left side, chose mp4 muxer, and use the save button to save your clip. It will be as fast as copying the video clip on your drive. No loss of quality.
If you must cut between keyframes, you need to re-encode.
I set mine to 10 mins, but 5 mins works too
Use http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ . Its very straightforward, all it does is let you delete from a single clip
free too
quality sometimes on pubg was kind of mediocre but it got job done
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/download.html for a gui solution similar to the ffmpeg
Avidemux can use what's called copy encoding to do exactly that: be extremely fast. Drag your video in the program, seek to where you want the clip to start and press "[A" then seek to where you want it to end and press "B]", (try to make it be on an "I" frame if it's a MOV/MP4) ensure it's copy on video and copy on audio dropdowns. For the container use the same container (if you have an mp4, use mp4, or mov, mkv if it complains) then hit save
I use Premiere Elements, and it does everything I need. I do however have to use a program called Avidmux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ to extract the second audio channel that I record, and then just import it into Premiere Elements as a second audio track.
> i have a long gopro vid that i need to take several short clips whats the fastest most efficent way to do this?
Are you asking how to break out little pieces to keep for the long term? Or how to use small sections to edit?
If it's the latter, it totally depends on your editor. But they all allow making selects of footage.
Do you have an editor yet?
If it's the former, the biggest issue you're going to run into, is that the GoPro footage is so highly compressed that it's difficult to break off pieces. I'd suggest lossless cut, AviDemux or FFMPEG, all of which can cut a section without re-encoding.
blender is really good, but an even simpler "editor" is avidemux, you can do basic cut and pastes maybe some transitions and cropping etc, but it doesn't have a standard time line as you would normally expect from a video editor
EDIT: just read avidemux was removed from ubuntu repository as of 16.04, and is not so easily installed
was able to install from here fairly easily; http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/16.10/?q=avidemux
While Vegas is cool shit (I also use it), avidemux is a lot simpler for just chopping vidyas and probably other simple stuff too. Might be cool depending on what you want to do
There's no need to do all that, you can easily join all the clips together without needing to re-encode anything. There are a lot of ways to do it, a simple one is to use Avidemux.
As I understand it, Avidemux will do this.
What you're asking isn't trivial. You're taking a very lossy video and trying to snip moments from full frame to full frame. H264 compression works by throwing out everything but the changes - most frames only have the changes since the last.
Mpeg4-ASP is h263 -> XviD
h264 is Mpeg4-AVC -> x264
AVI is the container
Your original video is certainly h264 in an mp4 or mkv container, if you want to preserve quality and save time you can change the container. It's possible with Avidemux. Select copy for audio and video, then chose AVI in the bottom then save.
An alternative free video editor is Lightworks. Or for simple edits, AVIdemux does the job. For recording video, I echo the suggestion of OBS.
Naming convention for Plex should be SXXEXX-EXX for multi episodes and you can do more than one lIke S01E01-E05. For splitting or even combining the video I use Avidemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
+1 on this,
it's a shame it's considered a pirates format these days (and I doubt you'll fool anyone by saying it's not pirated content considering I've never seen a mkv file come out of a camera or editing software, only on torrent/usenet sites)
But to answer your question I'm not sure if Avanti will re wrap, I couldn't find a lot of into about that. If the command line doesn't work for you, this is what I used to use to rewrap / convert content (back when I was practicing editing by making my own movie trailers and downloading a copy of a movie was easier than trying to rip my physical dvd, what's the point of even "buying" a movie when I can't do what I want with it)
in anycase check out avidemux: http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
same idea, a gui for ffmpeg, but you can select direct stream so it doesn't rerender the video and audio streams, it will just wrap it. Chances are though the h.264 settings used for your high quality mkv blu-ray 1080p -aXXo- probably aren't compatible with the mp4 device you're trying to use it with. Maybe it is, but sometimes they'll have weird frame rates, resolutions or other things that screw with stuff.
If your purpose is to edit with it, you can try to do this to save some time, but I ended up converting my mkvs back in the day to cineform, because it's free and lossless and premiere plays nice with it. nice codec to edit with considering the other options out there. (so long huffy, we barely knew ye)
Here's a pretty easy way to edit yourself a working copy of the full video using some free software(a downloader, audacity and avidemux):
Download the video in whatever resolution you'd like (just look for one of the multiple browser extensions that do that)
Download a copy of the audio only using the same program as above (160 or 192kbps should be fine)
Download/install/open audacity and open the audio track.
Split the two channels.
Delete the left channel (you'll know which one to delete by looking at the waveform)
Turn the remaining channel to mono.
Save the track.
Download/install/open avidemux and load the video.
Replace the audio track with the one you just saved from Audacity. Set it to AAC.
Set the output format to mp4v2, save it and you're done!
Excluding the download part, which depends on your connection speed, the edits can be done in 10-15 mins.
Hope this isn't breaking any rules. If so, sorry and please remove the post.
Try to convert it first with Avidemux, i have the same problem the video HD PVR Rocket can't be use with Sony vegas.
Just download Avidemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
Video Output
Mpeg4 AVC (x264)
in configure :
Encoding mode : average bitrate two pass 3000
Audio Acc (facc)
Output format
MP4
i still work on the same problem
by the way never power up you "HD PVR Rocket" from the usb of the console use a USB charger
There is also avidemux en blender for video editing. (both are open source)
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ Avidemux is a simpler program, that i've used to crop video.
Blender I've haven't used as a video editor, but does have such a mode and interface.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
there is a filter button for the audio track that can boost the volume. Although it looks like you have to re-encode the audio (not copy) to be able to use the filter.
You could also use avidemux to save only the audio track, then use Audacity (also free) to raise the volume, then replace the original audio track in the video.
Avidemux if you're on Windows. Load the video, change the audio encoding format to your preferred, then go >Audio>>Save Audio.
If you're on Mac, (Unlikely, but this was the method I used for years before I'd even heard of FL) just drag-and-drop the file into GarageBand, delete the video track, and re-export.
Beware, Shadowplay may causes BSOD(at least for me with 970)
Windows movie maker is always free if you just want to cut, convert and upload.
also I found this from Planetside sub before, you can cut mp4 without long re-encoding but i didn't try it http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
Try recording at 720p 30fps and see if it still happens.If the issue doesn't happen with those settings then your CPU or HDD may be too slow, Lagarith Losless make large files so 1080p 60fps maybe the issue.You could also try this x264 codec.With the x264 codec you will also need to convert videos to use an MP4 containter so that your rendering software Vegas/premiere Ect can read the file, for that you will need Avidemux.Pull the video file into Avidemux near bottom left it should say "format" select MP4 the click the floppy icon to save the file.
> Also, I kind of said I would have gameplay gyfs this week but I still can't find a screen recorder that will actually work. What do you guys use?
I use free fraps to capture -> avidemux to cut and resize. Seems to do the trick.
Avidemux. When you load a file, both audio and video are set to copy mode by default (will be visible on the left). Underneath that set the output format to mp4. After setting your in and out points, save your new file. Since it is not recompressing, it is very fast.
If you are only doing basic trimming, you can do that without recompressing. No recompressing, no further quality loss. Give avidemux a try. After you set an in and out point for trimming, it can copy the source footage into the new file without losing quality.
I've noticed I get slightly better youtube quality if I minimize re-encoding. I use FFMPEG to extract and merge clips from my recordings (segmented at keyframes) without re-encoding them. AVIDemux can do this for people who are afraid of command line tools.
Unfortunately, since you're basically copying the compressed video frames, you can't really do anything else but extract and merge clips with this method.
EDIT: What I'm trying to say is youtube's encoder seems to pick up on compression artifacts, even ones that aren't really all that visible to the human eye, and make them even worse. I've edited videos together in premier that look fine on my local computer, but terrible once I upload them. They looked a lot better when I edited them with the FFMPEG method.
I like http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ for workout editing. It's a bit ugly but it's free, super quick to use once you know the keyboard shortcuts, and doesn't re-encode the video so saving is really fast after you're done editing.
If you record using OBS, you can open the video in this program to cut the time down without losing any quality. Then upload the shorter video straight to gfycat (you can upload videos too!)
Someone asked a similar question in another sub, I'll just copy over my reply from there.
That can be done with almost any editor, but for this I would use avidemux. It's free and fast. With this you can strip out the audio without recompressing the video (no quality loss). Open the program, load your mp4. You'll see that on the left both video and audio are set to copy. Under that you'll see output mixer, select mp4 so that the file format remains the same after you create the new file. Next, click audio on the menu bar, then "select track." Remove all checkboxes so that no audio is loaded. Should look like this.Then save the new file.
That can be done with almost any editor, but for this I would use avidemux. It's free and fast. With this you can strip out the audio without recompressing the video (no quality loss). Open the program, load your mp4. You'll see that on the left both video and audio are set to copy. Under that you'll see output mixer, select mp4 so that the file format remains the same after you create the new file. Next, click audio on the menu bar, then "select track." Remove all checkboxes so that no audio is loaded. Should look like this.Then save the new file.
Avidemux and VirtualDub are both very lightweight video editors that can splice videos together and edit audio tracks. Avidemux is probably closer to what you want than VirtualDub as vdub doesn't feature much in the way of audio editing capabilities. I know that Blender is also capable of editing videos but have no experience with it.
You could go with Adobe Premiere, it'd certainly have the features you want, but it is hardly 'lightweight'.
Edit: I'm assuming you're on a Surface Pro?
I am using Linux, but I use SimpleScreenRecorder (not available on Windows, but I'm sure there are free screen recorders that are good and easy to find), then Avidemux for editing.
Does the video fail to open in the first place, or does it just not display properly? Also, what file format is the video in? Android has surprisingly spotty support for video container formats, so you may have to convert the file to an .mp4 if it is not already in that format. I use Avidemux to convert my videos to .mp4 since it allows me to change the container easily without re-encoding the video.
I personally recommend Avidemux. It can demux your files (separate audio, video, and headers) and then mux them with different formats (and you can adjust settings along the way like cropping, removing logos, changing hue and saturation, taking parts of the video out, removing the audio, etc). Try it out, it's kind of a life saver.
Check the "Basic Gif Making Tutorials" in the side bar.
Well, if you don't want to edit anything, it's actually super easy.
Use Avidemux (or any other video editor) to create a clip of the desired scene.
Save it as h.264/MP4.
Upload to http://gfycat.com/
That's it, really.
The two I've heard of are Lightworks and Avidemux. Lightworks has a steeper learning curve and is supposedly on par with professional video editing software, but I didn't have good luck with it when I tried importing recorded gameplay files. Avidemux is a simpler editor, but I don't have much experience with it.
I tried to use vlmc a while back, but I think the project is dead.
I'd say go ahead and give it a go, but you may be better off with something like Avidemux
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I have this problem too. It has something to do with what formats Registax can read and what container is used. I'm not too familiar with the technology behind it.
To solve this, download the software called Avidemux. Load the video into Avidemux, then choose File->Save->Save selection as JPEG images. This will convert each frame to an image. After that, load each image into Registax (you can import all at once).
ConvertXtoDVD is basically a commercial $50 front-end to FFmpeg.
The same results can be achieved for free with other programs like eRightSoft SUPER, Handbrake or even Avidemux.
>I'm a Linux user and my favourite video editor is OpenShot where this is coming soon.
They've only got builds for Debian and Ubuntu, AFAICT. Oh well, I'll keep fiddling with Avidemux then.
Uploaded this to test how the hauppauge looks after uploading to youtube. How's the quality? If anyone has experience with recording and uploading videos, I would love to hear how you did it.
I took the .mp4 files that got saved, and loaded it up in Avidemux on linux (Ubuntu 10.04). Set the video to x.264 and the format to AVI. It encoded the 4 minute file to about 230 MB (the .mp4 was 250 MB). After that I just uploaded it to youtube.
Anyway, someone asked me how it was after I played with it, and it looks really easy. I'm going to have a blast. You can even use it to stream (Here is one of the saved stream attempts), but it looks like it's going to take a lot of configurations to get it right, so I'll have to mess around with that some more.