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I believe the only answer to that is to take at least a 24hr break. Move onto another project or start something new. The number of times I have come back to something after a decent break and can all of a sudden see what needs to be done is shocking.
I don't believe their is a quick fix to this issue.
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In recent versions of FFmpeg, use the crop filter:
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -filter:v "crop=out_w,out_h,x,y" out.mp4
Where the options are as follows:
out_w is the width of the output rectangle
out_h is the height of the output rectangle
x and y specify the top left corner of the output rectangle
So, for example, to crop a 640×480 window, starting from ...
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PBS is made up of 354 different broadcasters and carry content from many different studios, it is highly unlikely that they all use one product and chances are good they use a product other than Final Cut or Premiere. Avid makes several very popular products and the software that drives actual broadcast studios isn't the same kind of software used by ...
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What you need is a sequencer that can also handle audio data, or an audio suite that also handles sequencing. Collectively, these programs are known as Digital Audio Workstations, commonly abbreviated DAWs. While the term "DAW" technically refers only to audio editing (waveforms), it's very common for a DAW to also support MIDI sequencing, or to be more of a ...
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Note that SyxEx data is, by its very nature, vendor specific. Supporting detailed SysEx editing would require custom work for each MIDI synth ever made. EMagic's Sounddriver did this, but was discontinued shortly after Apple bought EMagic.
You can accomplish a lot of MIDI and SysEx manipulation with Logic's environment, though it is awkward, poorly ...
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Depending on what sorts of editing you want to do, you might be better off doing your audio editing within your video editor itself. I have used Premiere and Final Cut Pro, and both have fairly serviceable audio editing and effect processing support. For more detailed audio editing, Logic Studio has excellent support for editing audio with a reference video, ...
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Here are some options:
VirtualDub can join still images to videos. Just select the first
image, choose a compression, and save the video. That's some mouse
clicks per folder, but no automatic batch procession.
FFmpeg can do the same, but you need to write a command line for
each folder, which can then be automatically batch processed.
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So after 8 hours of research, trial and error, I found a successful workflow for .mov footage from my Canon EOS Rebel T3i.
The first part is that you can't import .mov "Apple / H264" files with Lightworks without purchasing the "Pro" version. The pro version costs $60 per year (which is actually a good price for what you get). So I bought that and was ...
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The first thing I would check is frame rates of the input, the composition and the output. I would also check the render settings on the output to make sure it isn't only rendering 50% of the frames. Check the properties of the input, the properties of the composition and the render settings in the render queue. Let me know if you can't find the problem ...
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To answer your edited question:
If your footage is 15fps and After Effects thinks it's 30fps, you need to tell After Effects to re-interpret the footage.
You do this as follows:
Open the Project panel (by default on the left of your screen)
Right click on your footage and go to Interpret Footage -> Main... as shown below.
In the screen that opens up ...
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As 50ndr33 says, you need to shoot/capture at as high an FPS as possible. The more FPS the better the slow motion effect afterwards.
Kronos is also a great plugin, but as he also states - it has some problems when footage isn't linear. If that's the case, you should have look at Twixtor. It's a bit more advanced (and more expensive) but it's better at ...
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A common problem for a slow edit is incorrectly setting the codec of the sequences.
Unless under very specific circumstances (of which I'm not sure of), you should set your sequence codec (when you create the new sequence and Premiere asks you what preset it should use) to be identical to your footage.
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What you want to do is make a sequence with the same frame size as your source file (in Premiere and other NLEs your project doesnt have a specific frame size, as you can have multiple sequences with different frame sizes in one project)
Open Premiere and Start a new Project (File > New > Project)
Give the project a name and click ok (dont worry about any ...
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Adobe Premiere Elements is like $80 and does all that including stabilization.
I use Premiere pro on my main comp and you elements on my backup computer since I couldn't afford another copy.
It's not free but I've looked for free editors and you won't find anything free that does stabilization.
Elements project files can be imported in to Premiere Pro so ...
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In the early days of AVC where pretty much nobody had a computer that can decode H.264 with decent performance it was standard to transcode to an intermediate format for editing.
There are many choices for an intermediate format. An important quality of the intermediate codec is that it is intra-coded, meaning that each frame is encoded independently, ...
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Remember every time a video is transcoded or rendered you will loose some quality. Why not consider getting Vegas Movie Studio. Version 9 through the current version 11 are compatible with WinXP and can handle the AVCHD format just fine.
Vegas Movie Studio is the light or home version of Vegas Pro and costs about 84% less.
If you are only editing simple ...
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It seems to me from a high level, two things. First off your project settings in FCP do not match your source materials. First off you should transcode one of your two sources to a common format so you are dealing with only one aspect ratio and frame size, it may require cropping or scaling down some of the larger content to match the smaller one (i.e. bring ...
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FFmpeg can do anything :D
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 \
-filter_complex '[0:v]split[top][bottom];[bottom]crop=iw:ih/2:0:ih/2[right];[top]crop=iw:ih/2:0:0,pad=iw*2:ih:0:0[left];[left][right]overlay=W/2:0[outv]' \
-map [outv] -c:v libx264 -crf 22 -preset veryfast output.mp4
The split filter creates two identical versions of the input video ([0:v]), called [top] and ...
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I assume you want to extract sections. You can do this with ffmpeg which is multiplatform, open source, and free. This example will skip the first 12 seconds and create an output that is 10 seconds long. The video and audio will be copied instead of re-encoded, so there will be no quality loss.
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 12 -t 00:00:10.00 -c copy -map 0 ...
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You can always try this one for example:
http://www.dvdvideomedia.com/video-cutter-joiner/video-cutter-joiner.html
But as will all "free" software, be aware during installation if you need to opt-in or out of any added software, tool-bars and so forth.
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You can also try to use Avidemux -- its free and open source program + you can use it on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Here is the documentation wiki on Avidemux, where you can find section "Scripting":
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WaveShop might fit your constraints. It's free and open-source, it's less complicated than Audacity but still has plenty of editing features, and it has a straightforward, uncluttered native Windows interface. It's also thoroughly documented, has 64-bit and portable versions, has good surround support, and is being actively developed. From the WaveShop ...
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Found it!
You can press the "J" key to play in reverse. Each time you hit the "J" it will jump a full speed up to x4. If you want to jump by speeds of .25x, hold the "K" button and hit "J". While it is play backwards, hitting the spacebar will jump you back to where you started playing, and hitting "K" will stop you where you are.
To adjust playback speeds ...
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There is no such tool that I'm aware of and I'm not even sure what exactly the output of such a tool would look like. What is available, however, is the ability to use the integration between Adobe applications to work on the audio track in Premiere directly in Audition so that you shouldn't have to manage it yourself like this.
In fact, I believe it may ...
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A quick Google search for the terms add photo with virtual dub shows this result. Quoting:
save the titlescreen in bitmap (same size of video, obviously)
import image in VirtualDub (with Open command)
select the single frame you get after opening and copy it
open your video
paste the frame you copied in the desired position (every ctrl-v is a ...
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I'm sure Virtual Dub http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/ can do what you want, though there may be simpler scripted cutters out there. Before investing too much time in the script, be sure VD can handle the particular codec(s) you'll be using.
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You could check out these links to see if they provide what you need:
http://www.theneitherworld.com/mcpoodle/SCC_TOOLS/DOCS/SCC_TOOLS.HTML
Caption Maker Pro:
http://www.cpcweb.com/
And of course Scenarist and Encore, although both are DVD oriented you should be able to produce at least MPEG-2 with closed captions embedded:
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You'll need to use something different, other than VirtualDub. Sony Vegas 8+ comes to my mind.
In Sony Vegas you can put your video, rotate it, crop it and fit the first upper part in the left side of the video. I am assuming that you are going to use a 16:9 aspect ratio video project for this case, so you can use the left side of the canvas in order to put ...
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If you only need the basic audio editing functions (such as extract audio from video, remove unwanted part of the whole audio, convert ogg audio to mp3, etc.), you can use professional video converter. The number of separate audio editing software is not much, but most of the video converting and editing software can also edit audio perfectly.
For Mac OS, ...
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I have not done any audio editing for video, but I have done a bit of recording music.
I have used Audacity in the past and find it good for simple multi-track recording. Audacity is easy to use for basic recording and editing and it is free.
If you need to do anything with effects or more complex editing I would recommend a lower cost DAW such as ...
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