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This is one of my favorites. But be warned it's nothing like the higher end tools. This is what I'd call projectionist software.
Like in the old days, it was usually a projectionist's job to splice together reels of videos OR to edit them by slicing apart two pieces and adding in more footage.
That being said, while it provides basic things like titles and animating footage, tansitions, and I think it can do keying... it doesn't do particles, or any other real massively fancy graphics
For those wanting a simple video editor right now on Windows there is always OpenShot. It's a free open source application that has been on Linux for years but now runs on Windows.
A ver. Profesionalmente hablando no hay que salir de Vegas, LigthWorks y Premiere. Ahora si queres algo rápido para algo simple tenes varias opciones. Estuve probando el OpenShot y es bien simple y fácil a pesar de tenes varias features bastante profesionales.
I use Linux for everything. I haven't touch Windows for over 11 years.
Openshot is a great video editor. http://www.openshot.org/
Linux is great for everything. You just have to know what software you need and be able to use it efficiently.
From the perspective of someone who can already edit, Lightworks is easily the best, as it's a professional grade NLE. However that might not be what you mean when you ask that question. Beginners (and even intermediate users) may struggle with it.
Also, if you're a Linux user, OpenShot looks promising, but I have not tried it personally.
Mmm not really. Ardour might look like a successful DAW if you are a hobbyist, but it is far from usable if you are doing professional work (I'm one of those brave souls that tried to do OSS and Linux only audio work for 2 years before switching to the glorious OS X and never looking back). It poses as one but doing professional grade DAW is HARD.
LMMS is also a hobbyist app stuck in the 90s and early 2000s.
I didn't know about OpenShot (I'm not into video) so at least checked the site out.
Seriously, if you are thinking something like this is suitable for professional video editing work, I don't know what to say.
All of those are hobbyist projects created by ambitious people with good intentions. And they are just that.
I agree that between those, Ardour tried really hard to over-deliver in terms of quality and it stands out compared to other OSS projects, but it is very far from being enough.
Not a bother at all! The basic steps:
- use 'convert' (the imagemagick command-line tool) to split an input gif into individual frames
- use a (slightly-modified) version of demo.py in the style-transfer package above to apply the style transfer frame-by-frame
- if I'm making a gif, use convert again to mush them back into a gif, otherwise load them up into XYZ favorite video editor (I'm using openshot because it works well) to create a video
This is all extremely rudimentary, but I can paste up what I have into a github gist if you're interested; it's more of an monotonically-increasingly-embarrassing-chain of accidental discoveries rather than a production pipeline.
However, I'm tightening up how it works and with a few more attempts I might have a non-embarrassing, robust version I can share with you folks.
Blender http://www.blender.org/features/ has NLE functionality. I have used it a few times. The only thing that takes major effort is tittles/lower 3rds/etc.
If you aren't stuck on windows completely, http://www.openshot.org/ is FLOSS and kind of an iMovie clone.
Photoshop specifically? No, unfortunately. Adobe has not written a version for it (and I don't see it likely to happen in the future). Someone else mentioned GIMP. It has a huge learning curve, but it's very powerful.
Unity Type Engines - You can play any game through a windows virtual machine running what's called a GPU passthrough on Linux. It requires two GPU's (one can be very basic and low-power), and some tweaking, but a pretty cool concept for full-screen gaming in Linux.
Vegas Pro - Nope (just like Adobe), but OpenShot is a great alternative.
Firefox - Yes, it is the default browser for many distros
Steam - Yup, and many games work natively as well...just mostly indie/small dev games. Games like CoD, Battlefield, etc generally not.
What OS?
Windows: Simple, free and gets job done
Linux: Same deal as Movie Maker but better
Mac: I don't swing that way.
BTW, OpenShot is a free/libre editor, and has builds for win/mac too. Personally, I've never needed anything more complicated than OpenShot so I can't compare to kdenlive / blender's NLE / lightworks / etc
(OR, just try out linux, never hurts to dual boot! :D)
Openshot is a free open source video editing software I have been using lately. If you download and install be sure to up the memory allocation in the preferences. The desired affect you mentioned can be achieved using the Transformation feature in open shot. Regards
Just download it and open it in a video editor. Then you can watch these vids frame by brutal frame.
There's a small learning curve, but 5-10 minutes with a decent introductory tutorial should be enough to master the interface well enough for WPD viewing purposes.
Why not just work in scenes and stitch it all together later with something like http://www.openshot.org/
the blender alternative is either looking for a form of blender where the limit is changed or changing it yourself and building from source
While I've never used it, I told my brother (who is horrible with computers) to use OpenShot (http://www.openshot.org/). He managed to use it without having to ask me a 1000 questions so it should be easy to use.
For future reference OpenShot a popular Linux video editor is now freely available for Windows and Mac as well. It was once described as the "Windows Movie Maker for Linux" when it first turned up several years ago. It is a competent video editor primarily aimed at home users that has been continually developed. As it stands today it has gained features not seen in the Movie Maker from Microsoft but still with a eye to the home user.
Openshot, which should have a windows version soon...
Hard to beat Adobe Creative Cloud since you only have to pay monthly ($20/mo for single app, $20/mo for students) compared to hundreds upfront for other apps.
>Is there other software that does this better?
Nope, it's pretty basic stuff. They all do it the same.
>Is there a better way to do this as well?
Well, for annotating I'd say you're better off just using a video editor. Any video editor can do this, including OpenShot (which I've never used, BTW).
For encoding I'd at least go to two-pass encoding, and I would wrap it all in an MP4 instead of an AVI, as putting H.264 in an AVI is non-standard and AVI itself is getting on in age and it's not recommended going forward.
Also, why is your video 26FPS? That's a pretty non-standard frame rate. In PAL regions it's typically 25, and NTSC regions it's 29.97 (30000/1001) or 59.94 (60000/1001), with film typically being 23.976 (24000/1001).
If you've got a quadcore computer I'd bump your threads up to four.
I haven't tried iMovie, but you'll probably have a hard time finding an application as polished on Linux.
Still if you only need some simple features and don't care so much about the UI, Openshot as /u/WHEEEEEEEEEW already pointed out is relatively good, adding effects and transitions is pretty easy. I'll also add Cinelerra, more complex and not as user-friendly but is still worth a try.
Tip: I just want to mention OpenShot, a project that aims to be a free/libre alternative to Adobe Premiere.
I'm a photographer who's interested in getting into videography, but I haven't yet.
Edit: Since photography and videography interests often overlap I can also mention /r/FOSSPhotography, they might be able to help.
Edit2: X-posted here.
Openshot features works for me. http://www.openshot.org/features/ It took four tries to get my video the way I wanted it. It was the first time using Openshot. Now it's simple to edit my videos, the first time around now. What features that are missing that you need in Openshot? More tools doesn't make it better. Including if you aren't going to use the extra bells and whistle that another might provide.
I think it is widely held that NLE (Non Linear Editing) is Linux's biggest weakness. Over the past few years, that has improved a lot with the introduction and maturation of Open Shot. Cinelerra is pretty good as well.
Mac and Windows have Linux beat at this point. But Linux is making headway -- which it had not in the past.
Openshot source code, which includes the documentation and the images, is on github. I cannot see any reason why the images are excluded from the overall license, which I've copied from one of the doc source files:
.. Copyright (c) 2008-2016 OpenShot Studios, LLC (http://www.openshotstudios.com). This file is part of OpenShot Video Editor (http://www.openshot.org), an open-source project dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.
.. OpenShot Video Editor is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ........(more)
So as far as I can see you are free to use the images as long as you release them under GPL3+ (that is a condition of GPL). There is a standard form that the license has to take - just cut and paste.
You can get the original images from the source code
openshot-qt-develop/doc/images
Good luck.
OpenShot does allow you to create custom profiles. The official guide to it is here.
There's also a recent Github help topic on it, and this short how-to video, which has obnoxious sound but does in fact quickly walk you through creating and use a custom profile.
Be sure to choose the profile BEFORE importing any clips, to avoid distortion.
Can't tell from your current post whether you've tried this or not yet, so commenting just in case.
If you have downloaded the software from the office website, then there should not be any virus threats or malware issues. Here is the link for official download:
http://www.openshot.org/download/
However, I haven't used openshot though. For me Stellar Converter for Audio Video is quite a handy video editing software.
If you are looking for professional editing software, I will recommend Adobe premiere pro but if you are looking for quick editing, go to http://www.openshot.org/ and download their software free installation file. Install and use. It is quick and lovely to use.
So ideally you want the aspect ratio and resolution to match your source video. If the source video isn't the same 1080x1080, the video will skew.
Understanding this, you can create custom profiles in your preferred text editor following this guide.
Try OpenShot.
Its free and relatively simple compared to some of the other programs out there (Shotcut, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, Blender (yes the 3D modelling program)).
I record the video using a GoPro
I record the audio using GarageBand through the USB interface on my old Line 6 PodXT Live floor pedal into a Mac Mini.
Then I combine the two using Openshot which allows you to line up the video with the audio and also add stuff like captions. I use the Linux version which works OK for me. No idea how well the Mac or Windows ones work.
OpenShot is an open source cross-platform home video editor. It's being actively worked on so it's getting better with each revision. I first came across it on Linux and it was sometimes referred to Windows Movie Maker for Linux. There is a Windows version, it's completely free and it is very easy to use.
You've probably found a solution (what did you go with?)
I am going to give Openshot a try: http://www.openshot.org/
I have been using Premire Elements; and it feels clunky. I used Sony Vegas a LONG time ago and it worked alright. I may look into trying it out again.
Here are two Open Source video editors I use regularly. Both have fairly extensive FAQs/Tutorials/Guides as well. Shortcut and OpenShot Video Editor. (Linked to respective program features.)
Well I downloaded it from http://www.openshot.org/ and I didn't have to pay any money to use it, so I'm positive that fits the definition of "free". If you are in the mood to pay money to use a free program I could send you some links and you could give me some money for it...
What are you using to film?
If you're using a GoPro and setting it to 120 FPS it will automatically make slowmotion raw footage, figured you might be experiencing something like that.
Editing is pretty easy once you get a hang of it, you just have to find a decent editor that you like. Some of them have too many bells and whistles for me, I prefer something simple I can cut segments & drag and drop them with. I prefer openshot since I'm on Linux, but it also has a Windows version if you wanted to give it a try. Pretty simple drag & drop interface, easy to figure out the basics.
Openshot been approving a lot. It even had a Kickstarter campaign. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/421164014/openshot-video-editor-for-windows-mac-and-linux
Great review at Linux Action Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YImC0pJyWtI&t=42m42s
OpenShot Features. http://www.openshot.org/features/
Have you checked out OpenShot? It can speed up video at least to 16x speed. That's what I use for video editing, but I think most basic video editors give you decent speed-up cability.
Not sure if there is a video maker that is as easy to use as windows movie maker AND have more features. I'm not a mac user but maybe they have an equivalent to wmm that comes with the OS if you have access to one.
I have used OpenShot which seems fairly intuitive... but the thing is it hasn't been ported to windows, yet. They have a live cd on their homepage so you could always try that method if you run out of options.
Then you could use Blender, but the software is probably not something you just jump in and make videos with in 15 minutes. It's not that difficult to use, but you're gonna have to look up some tutorials on youtube or other place before you're gonna get anywhere.
Take a look at Openshot. It's open source but only runs on Linux right now. Openshot 2.0 development was funded by Kickstarter which will include a Windows version but it's not out yet.
What I have done is create a Virtual Machine with Virtualbox and set up a shared drive between Windows and the guest OS so that Openshot inside the VM can access files on my windows drive.
Just take pictures from a normal camera and combine them into a video using ffmpeg. Then use openshot or lightworks to edit the final video.
In my experience, OpenShot works well enough for basic editing. It's a bit clumsy and buggy, but hey, it's free, and it's under active development. It should run just fine on your Acer. You can install it through Software Center.
Did you keep reading the download page where you will also find Fedora as well as source. Other distros such as Gentoo and Arch have it in their respositories too.
The only free one that I've liked thus far is Openshot, however it's Linux only at this time.
I've also heard of people using Blender to edit video...
absolutely nothing like lightroom: virtualdub handles a lot of digital video effects under 'filters'. You need to be fairly competent with user level IT to use this program, it doesn't have big green 'click here' buttons. If the effect you want isn't under there then just google for it. ie. "virtualdub filter vignetting"
or if you're running linux or don't mind using a liveCD http://www.openshot.org/ It's a lot more user friendly but still no where near as simple as lightroom.
The problem you'll find is that the scope of your requirement is so small that programs that do what you want also do lots more stuff that (probably) from your perspective complicate matters and get in the way. Good luck with your search!