Free Video Editing Software

[peterah]

The pain comes in with AVCHD type movie clips (many handycams, etc) which requires converters and such nonsense

Again it depends on whether you have the correct codecs installed. WLMM imports my AVCHD movie files directly from my Panny for editing.

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

Again it depends on whether you have the correct codecs installed. WLMM imports my AVCHD movie files directly from my Panny for editing.

Yep... I should have expanded that... Most times you get the disks with the required installations/codecs, etc... Install it, and all should work fine

We have had a pain though with Mac based software... I can import and convert AVCHD with FinalCut, but the cam needs to be connected and a conversion happens as it gets copied. Takes quite long... maybe the next version will have it all in the box as the use of AVCHD becomes more widespread.

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

Interesting.....I have problems with Sony Vegas Pro 9 handling the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec in 720p Are you saying the footage from a 550d, in 720p would be easier on the pc and software? Or did I miss something

Well... it might... the VSLR clips come in .mov (h.264) format... so it tends to play on more or less anything

[visagieh]

Now I need help.

A friend shot some surf on his HD GoPro 2. We want to extract short clips and stills from the MP4.


I have downloaded Lightworks, but doesnt seem to be able to import MP4. Win Moviemaker same issue.

Where to start, do I have to first convert to AVI ?

Hannes

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

MPEG Streamclip (http://www.squared5.com/) nothing better than it for converting videos and the price can't be beat!

[visagieh]

MPEG Streamclip (http://www.squared5.com/) nothing better than it for converting videos and the price can't be beat!

Thanks Sean. I got that from some other site also, at least on the right trac.

Nothing special, first edit
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150667442773242

Hannes

[Forgiss - Sean Nel]

nice... is that flare on the lens, or did you pick up some moisture inside?

[visagieh]

nice... is that flare on the lens, or did you pick up some moisture inside?

Sean, dont know. This was his first out, so we will see on the next.

What I find the software is when you go back, playing backwards it struggles a bit. I click pause with a big delay. Easy enough to use for extracts end stills.

Hannes