Video Editing Tips

One of the open source programs to choose from, Ingex offers tape-less video capture using the serial data interface or you could try streaming input for real time encoding of data. It has the uncanny ability to obtain video from several sources as in a studio setting. It can also be configured to serve as a video editing server for Avid editing clients.

Using the Samba Virtual File System, it has the nice ability to use non-essential data storage for it’s libraries unlike most software commercial or free that do use up a lot of storage and memory. It’s small footprint makes it ideal for those who use Linux machines and the likes, making video on the cheap with less resources.

Opening up your options to open sourced software is very hard but considering the fact that there is a growing movement of open source users that use Unix-like languages it may be wise to get into the thick of if. Avidemux is a non-linear video editing software that allows decent visual effects in the form of filters from the developers. It can also convert video into one of the many formats it supports.

Using the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine it is user-changeable meaning it is customizable should you be a Linux geek who wishes more control on the features you get and have available to you. It was initially designed for the Unix-like platform but it can be made to run on Windows.

Another non-linear video editor that focuses more on flexibility using FFmpeg allowing it to support several video formats including high definition, one of the formats not widely supported by many open source software. It has the ability to capture data from firewire ports, Video4Linux and even webcams allowing versatile video capture.

It has some tools or effects built into the system which is continuously improved on by a small team of developers who makes changes to the software through patches as with many other Open source software. The software is small. and powerful, able to compete with commercial software without the cost that is.

Or at least try to for you have to be a developer or programmer to do this effectively and properly. One such program that can be used for free or even compiled for free is Avidemux, a French-written open source project that is offered for free for those who want a simple yet quite easy to use program to edit and put together their videos without the hefty price or huge overhead. One of the other nifty thing about the software is that it can be compiled to run in Linux, BSD, Mac, OSX and of course Windows. Read the rest…

Viva is another of the many open-sourced projects that have focused on the production of free utilities for all. It is also published under a GPL license which makes it more or less free for all to use and it has most of the facilities that you would expect of the other video editing software you can buy from the store. It has a nifty ability to combine video from different sources(video cameras), and then combining them into one file for burning. It can also support multiple scenes that is combined into one single project making it quite powerful for a free software. The software however lacks a lot of power in terms of the files it supports and can export, but for most of us, the simplicity and utter lack of cost would be enough to get us on the open-source bandwagon. Read the rest…

If you want to get more oomph to your video editing work, then why not try out Lives, a linux-based open source project that is free yet powerful enough to get you on the professional way to video editing. It can be used as a video editor, a video server and more depending on the desired function you may want it to take for being open-sourced, you get to incorporate the features you need into the package, eliminating unneeded ones to save on resources. Read the rest…

Another of the free and open-sourced video editors out on the internet that has spawned many a forks as they are called, or versions made by other people and not the original author. The forks added more capabilities in terms of support and other capabilities but overall have the same look and feel. It is quite limited but for something that is free, it is quite awesome with some easy editing capabilities. You may want to get more performance by choosing from some of the forks/variants so do check at SourceForge where most open-sourced software are hosted for all to use and download. Read the rest…

If you’re the type that wants to make serious movies and videos, here’s the idea rig for you to put together.

Your editing PC must have:

1. A capture card. This to capture video that is not recorded digitally into a hard disk or memory stick. You can also use this up capture videos from your old VCDs and VHS tapes.

2. A lot pf processing speed. You need at least an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 or any equivalent to handle the processing requirements smoothly.

3. At least 2gb RAM. Video editing software, especially the more advanced ones, need a lot of memory. So if you’re also using Windows Vista, you’ll be needing a lot more for smoother operation.

4. Hard disk space. A lot of it. Raw video tends to be large – some even breaching 1gb EACH, so you need space both for that and the output.

One of the best proprietary video editing software around that money can buy. It offers advanced editing features that can be found on more expensive professional software. It is capable of using data from Sony’s digital recorders but a good firewire converter must be installed to allow importing of the video information. The more expensive version of the software boasts ability to format video for upload to the much famed iPod and Sony’s own PSP system. It also has a canny ability to upload video directly to YouTube which is a very good feature for social internet lovers. Designed as a non-linear editing tool for desktops with several versions that varies in capabilities according to the price. The complexity of the system has been addressed by Sony with the inclusion of many How-To videos that would allows the user to get step by step instruction in the system’s use. Sony’s software is a bit complex but overall, it is considered to be one of the best consumer editing software around.

Using opensourced and free video editing tools seems to be the cheapest, if not free, way of finally finishing that video. However, since there are tons of them around, we’ll focus on just on one: Kino.

The latest version was a few months ago but seems to be still relevant: ver. 1.3.2.

This is basically a re-release of 1.3.1 with some build-related fixes.

Author Dan Dennedy
Publishing date 20.08.2008 19:15

1.3.2 Release Notes
Just some build-related fixes.
1.3.1 Release Notes

* Added HuffYUV AVI export
* Added option not to recover to the crash detection dialog
* New Belarusian translation by Hleb Valoshka
* Updated Finnish and French translations
* Bug fixes

NOTE: configure’s –enable-udev-rules-dir has changed to –with-udev-rules-dir

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