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Every now and then, I've tried to do some basic video editing. Nothing super fancy, just clipping out part of a long video, maybe cropping and re-encoding to lo
by ufmace 4y ago
Every now and then, I've tried to do some basic video editing. Nothing super fancy, just clipping out part of a long video, maybe cropping and re-encoding to lower resolution or adjusting the volume. I've never been able to find a GUI app for that which is free and I can actually figure out the UI for. Last time, I thought I'd try ffmpeg command line. It actually worked really well and was easier to figure out than the UIs for any of the apps I tried. Just made up a cheat sheet of a dozen or so options combinations, and I get what I need done. So cheers to ffmpeg!
- LocalH 4y agoAvisynth is still great for processing video and doing non-interactive editing. It has built in filters for the basic operations you might want to do (such as trimming and concatenating video files). It's basically a scripting language for video. I find it handy for processing interlaced video, and there are tons of external filters that can be installed. Double framerate deinterlacers, even motion-compensated frame rate conversion. I've used those type of filters to get very nice and extremely watchable smooth 60fps video from interlaced PAL DVDs (I have a personal conversion of the PAL Blackadder DVDs into 60fps and it looks wonderful).