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VLMC is a non-linear multitrack editor. It's based on VLC and inherits a pretty vast format compatibility from that. The UI is a little rough, but it gets the job done.
Lightworks is a more recent project and seems polished. It's rooted in broadcast editing, so a large number of familiar codecs are unsupported. It supports Matrox codecs, which you have to ...
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Can Sony Vegas Pro be used or compared to the output produced by Final Cut Pro for professional use?
Vegas is a mature, full-featured NLE. I use it regularly for professional work from spots, to corporate video to feature films. I've also used it for semi-professional things like editing a video of my stepdaughter's choir concert for a Christmas DVD.
Here's where I run into problems. My producing partner is all about FCP. There's no clean way to export an ...
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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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I believe you can join MPEG ts (transport stream) files simply by joining them together. In Linux:
cat file1.m2ts file2.m2ts file3.m2ts > joined_file.m2ts
In Windows/DOS:
copy /b file1.m2ts + file2.m2ts + file3.m2ts joined_file.m2ts /b
As long as the input files are split properly, and each new file begins with a key frame (and I would expect your ...
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Yes, it's possible. What you need to do is demux and remux. Check out free tools like VirtualDub and Any Video Converter to split the original into separate streams, add what you want using Audacity or similar, then re-multiplex them together using a tool like AviMux. The video can remain unchanged.
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Allow me to edit out commercials anywhere in the video.
Any modern editor can do this (Adobe Premier, Sony Vegas, Final Cut etc) including light-weight (ex. Pinnacle Studio) and free editors.
After editing, it keeps the 5.1 Surround Sound.
Provided your original clip contains 5.1 channels and your editing environment is set up with (and can ...
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Both kdenlive and cinelerra should do all you need. If you can't make them so, try the consumer version of Sony Vegas, it's also still in your price range.
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Subtitling is a horrible horrible thing, and there are loads of regulations and standards and other bull which can be found here.
As for the font, it really depends on your opinion - if I'm not mistaken Trebuchet Sans and Deja Vu Sans are as close as you can get to the standard DVD fonts.
But all I just said depend on your artistic point of view - if the ...
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If you are judging Vegas Pro audio editing on native effects than I don't think it has any edge over others.
I have been using the Pro version for about 18 months now and I find it pretty darn good overall. I am also learning Adobe Premiere and After Effects CS5.5, so far I think Vegas has the edge on the audio for sure.
However, are you aware that Vegas ...
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I recommend the Creative Cow web site, specifically, http://forums.creativecow.net/adobeaftereffects. This will serve your need for getting help on AE, but this is not a site for posting to find some one to do the work for you. Hope this helps.
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I personally run Cinelerra CV and it's "mochup" Cinecutie on my Linux boxes.
Cinelerra (and it's relatives) can do some very sophisticated editing work, but they aren't the easiest to use. Luckily, there are lots of video tutorials out there to help you.
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You might want to see Wikipedia's Comparison of video editors and list of video editing software. From my personal experience I recommend Kdenlive over any others. It has good support for a wide range of non-linear video editing functions. If you are the real geek, you may want to try out Cinelera.
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Can Sony Vegas Pro be used or compared to the output produced by Final Cut Pro for professional use?
The way you've phrased this question makes it meaningless. Of course you can use Vegas for professional and semi-professional work. Of course you can compare the output of Vegas with other professional production tools. The problem is that "professional and semi-professional work" is such a broad field that you will always be able to find some situation ...
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The following video was made entirely on a Nokia N8 mobile phone. It is the winner of the Nokia Shorts competition 2011 and was just posted this week in the short list for the Vimeo 2012 Awards under the 'Advertising' catagory. Time Magazine says it's the 9th Most Creative Internet Film 2011.
http://vimeo.com/25451551
As you can see by the credits there is ...
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From the beginning.
Set your Vegas Project properties for 720 P (assuming you are using a 30 fps frame rate) you should be able to find the correct set up already as a template, otherwise take the closest thing and customize it. Adjust the audio tab to the best match to your sound track.
Next add your sound track to the Vegas Timeline.
Next add your ...
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Windows Live Movie Maker is a free app that can do both audio and video fades (both in and out). You probably already have this application installed on your computer, and if you need further help I would imagine you can find a number of YouTube tutorial videos.
Once you import your video, click on the Edit tab and you'll see the audio fades immediately.
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With a 99% chance After Effects was used here.
As long as you plan on doing a commercial video I would avoid home video production programs like iMovie at all costs. Specially because iMovie is made for cutting video and not making animations. Thats like making a commercial in Windows Movie Maker.
There are many many talented freelancing After Effects ...
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If you can script yourself, all you need to do is call FFmpeg repeatedly:
ffmpeg -ss [start-time] -i input.mp4 -c copy -t [clip-time] output.mp4
Here, start and clip times can be in the form HH:MM:SS.mmmm, or just in seconds.
To give you a rough idea how that'd look like in Ruby, see this Gist of mine. It contains a script that takes an edit list, a ...
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Finding non-linear editors on a computer can be really hard. The linear approach in the old days was actually a forced limitation due to the restrictions you had with tapes. You needed to add clips successively. Sure, you could make an insert but at the risk of messing up the time-base and other things.
That being said - the non-linear/linear is not the ...
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Kdenlive is rapidly becoming the most advanced Open Source video editor for Linux.
As a Windows user, you can download a live CD of Kdenlive. Burn it to a CD, and then it will boot up into a Linux system for you. Or, you could install Virtual Box on Windows (again, free software) and then install the live CD to that. This would allow you to simultaneously ...
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There is an Linux/Gnome based video editor called PiTiVi which is working close with the GStreamer multimedia framework which is used by most Linux distributions. The PiTiVi project has been slow moving because of their development philosophy which is "upstream first". Challenges they encounter in GStreamer means that they work with GStreamer to solve the ...
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You could use Windows Live Movie Maker, which is free with Windows Live Essentials. Here is a tutorial on how to do it.
It looks like Windows Movie Maker doesn't have native support for the 3GP format, but you should be able to download a CODEC for it.
For Mac users, iMovie is the equivalent.
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In general you should be able to do that with any video editing software.
Professionals use timecode-synced equipment for this job. Low budget productions do this with simple audio marks at the beginning and the end of a take. You can do this simply by clapping with your hands. But using a slate gives you a more significant mark (peak).
The main audiotrack ...
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Apple's Final Cut Pro X includes a variety of auto-analysis and auto-correction features — stabilization, compensation for rolling shutter, color balance, et c. It can also attempt to automatically time-sync multiple clips, which I've found does a pretty decent job at roughing out the timeline.
While I normally would feel uncomfortable relying on automated ...
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I think pretty much every editing program would allow you to zoom, pan and insert text. Inserting another video into the main video is a little more complex and the only program I know for sure that does it is After Effects. But I'm sure there are others that will.
I would suggest using Premiere because it's a very powerful program. Even though I've never ...
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In many instances you can use ffmpeg to create a clip out of a longer clip, and request that the original frames are copied instead of re-encoded.
I'm writing this from memory so you may want to double check, but I believe the command line options you need to use for this are:
ffmpeg -i <source-filename> -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss ...
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Check this Wikipedia article
The article doesn't go into full detail, but let's address yo your problem:
YES Audio loses quality very easily specially when changing its sampling rate and in your particular case it probably has to do with aliasing, which is a consequence of re sampling audio.
Basically - as people tell me at least - you should only raise ...
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Do a complete offline edit, it you want the quickest editing, use something like DV NTSC Quicktimes and edit on the fly, it will be SD but you never see the difference, then online to the original by replaceing footage back to your H.264...btw play around with your settings in Premiere and do some tutorials, there shouldnt be a reason an H264 file does not ...
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I think the short answer (one you may have already found) is no! I'm in a similar situation: I write music to picture and used to receive clips as .movs. I could then add final audio myself for showreel/web purposes. Now those clips arrive as mp4 and are useless and unchangeable. I can merge files in QT pro for viewing, but no saves are allowed.
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