Video Editing

Æthelred

I need some video-editing software fairly urgently and I'm prepared to pay money for it. The key features I want are:


- convert from .VOB
- ability to split up a movie + compression/resizing
- watermarking

..That's basically it. I know I can Google, but the field is so saturated that I could easily pick up a dud. Does anyone have any simple, cheap, straightforward, reliable suggestions? And it's not even for anime!

edit: Nevermind then.. found a good free utility; job done.

Everywhereasign

If you can, before this gets locked. Throw in the name of the programme so people searching can avoid asking the same question. Free is great, everyone loves free.

Æthelred

I realise this is rather a necro-post, but the combination I hit upon was VirtualDub + AutoGK. They can do pretty much anything together.

nexuscrawler

Mpeg Stream Clip

SkankPlaya

I have a presentation tomorrow, and I've found a bunch of videos online that I want to cut together and show. they're all flash videos, and I wasn't planning on doing anything too fancy, just cut them together. what can I get that is free and really easy to use?

Also, they're sort of poor quality, and I plan on blowing them up a little....so if you could help with that...thanks

SkankPlaya

so I re-encoded flv.'s to avi's, using a program called SUPER, then cut them together with VirtualDub, the only problem is that my 3 and a half minute video is a f'n Gig, and it's not even that good quality. How do I shrink that down?

Marty81

Grab a video codec like XviD and choose it under "video compression." You'll likely need to mess around with its configurations (within VDub) to get a good quality/size ratio.

Also choose LAME MP3 for audio compression. A lot of people forget to compress their audio, resulting in unnecessarily large files.

Edit: Goddamn fucking piece of shit editor here. Anyway, as I tried to type earlier: Make SURE the comp you'll be playing the video on has the appropriate codecs (Whatever you compressed with) installed, or at least make sure it can play back videos with the type of compression you use. If you're bringing in your vid on a flash drive, you might want to also bring along a copy of VLC media player, just to be sure.

SkankPlaya

thanks, now its a reasonable 9MB.


Edit: I didn't see a way to add credits or a title to it. Can I?

Æthelred

I added a watermark using this guide and it says that you can have it appear for only a certain amount of time. I imagine you could add a title that way; doubt scrolling credits though.