Looking for a simple movie editing program

Impersonator

I basically just want to use a single picture as the video's background and use a .flac audio file. Is there a simple, lightweight program that will let me do this?

I tried Windows Movie Maker but it doesn't support .flac files.

Tsk

You could always convert the .flac to a different audio format in Goldwave or something.

Seeks

Seconding Tsk. Mediacoder, Audacity, Foobar, uh.. maybe Winamp. Tons of programs can help you convert flac to something WMM can use.

Impersonator

I don't want to convert it, though. Are there any solutions for my problem?

Seeks

You can try VirtualDub and see if that works. Other than that, I can't say I know much about simple, presumably free Windows video editors.

Impersonator

VirtualDub doesn't support it as well. :?

There has to be a way of doing such a simple task, it's making it seem like .flac is some kind of weird file format.

ben0207

Err, it is? Very very rarely would somebody need an amateur level video editor to use lossless audio.

Impersonator

That shouldn't mean that there's no video editor out there that handles it.

stigweard

It's going to be converted at some point, no matter what. You might as well convert them back to wav, do the work you need, and thenuse the best audio codec for the final application (dvd, youtube, whatever...)

Impersonator

How would I go about doing that?

PeregrineFalcon

Impersonator wrote: »

How would I go about doing that?

1. http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
2. flac.exe -d yourfile.flac

stigweard

MediaCoder will convert just about any audio, audio / video from one format to another. Drop in the flac files you want to convert, click the audio tab on the bottom left, choose waveform encoder, pcm format, original for resample, and hit start up top. It will drop the copies in the source folder. There are a dozen other ways as well, just google around and you'll find many methods and tolls to do it. I'm not 100% positive waveform convert is a lossless process, you'd have to find someone more knowledgeable. I only ever make clips for youtube, so audio quality doesn't really matter so much since it gets compressed as mp3 and resampled to 44.1khz.

GothicLargo

Impersonator wrote: »

I don't want to convert it, though. Are there any solutions for my problem?

You're deliberately making the problem hard. It's not. Transform the audio to something your non-linear editor accepts. Problem solved.

I mean seriously, is there a better solution? Probably yes. I don't know if Final Cut Pro accepts FLAC input (it might, I haven't tried and it's at home right now) but I don't think spending several thousand dollars for new hardware and software is a necessary expense to solve your imaginary problem that can be fixed very easily by just converting the audio.

I go to work and bounce similar engineering questions every day of the week. Are there times when the workaround is unacceptable? Yes, sure. This isn't one of them. Losing sleep, time, and money over trying to use audio in X format when Y format will work and you can convert between the two is... well... the kind of thing the people I work for would try to do if I wasn't there to point it out.

elliotw2

At some point, that flac file will get converted into a lossy format, simply because a DVD doesn't really have room for lossless audio and still have enough room for decent quality video. Just change it to .wav (which is the same but slightly bigger) and start editing. Hell, I use a copy of Sony Vegas and it doesn't even support .flac files

General_Win

Impersonator wrote: »

VirtualDub doesn't support it as well. :?

There has to be a way of doing such a simple task, it's making it seem like .flac is some kind of weird file format.

You might be upset at converting your flac to a weird file format, but to me .flac is weird.

Don't be hating on regular and more common media formats, we can all get along here without hurting people's feelings.

Impersonator

But, but, but...

Well, this is really just to upload a video on Youtube so... I will try to convert it to .wav then, thanks for the help.

Seeks

Hmm.

Doesn't youtube let you upload soundtracks independently?

Edit: Admittedly not going to help you if you're trying to sync the music in any sort of precise fashion.