Decide you want to work in a different resolution or frame rate? Make the change. Work the way you want to. If you change your mind, work that way, too, without having to replicate a ton of work already done.
It feels intuitive, like it was made for you, because however you want to work, VEGAS Pro enables and encourages your unique style. But experienced editors, used to and preferring a keyboard-based approach, will find a totally customizable keyboard layout waiting for them. To adjust its length, just move one or the other clip, or trim the end of the first or beginning of the second to overlap the clips more or less.
You can make adjustments to anything, anywhere, as the timeline plays, so you can see instantly the effect of any changes you make. Loop an area of your timeline and keep it playing while you adjust, and see your changes take effect in real time. Experiment, and see the results immediately! But it's a command line program, so not so easy to use. And you should be aware with highly compressed codecs like H. It's the nature of the codec, not the editor. Most times you want to cut on keyframes I frames or you risk video breakup and audio sync problems.
Or you can re-encode just at the cut point to avoid re-encoding the whole video. Virtualdub has a 'smart rendering' function that makes this easier. Highly compressed codecs use widely spaced I frames. An I frame is a full frame of video. Divx uses about I frame spacing for example. In between the I frames are just partial frames that are the difference in the video to the next full I frame.
Makes frame accurate editing a real PITA. By input sources, do you mean importing video into the program directly, or the file types? I'd certainly try Windows Live Movie Maker for starters. Aside from the above, and steep learning curve, how is Lightworks?
I may be noobish at video editing, but am not at all a noob as far as overall PC stuff goes. Plus I'd be willing to learn. Last edited by budwzr; 14th Oct at I can afford it! Originally Posted by landstake.
Recommends: Kiva. Right, the free tools have always been arcane. Although AutoGK was an attempt to bring something to the masses, most of the other programs are for the geeks with pocket protectors and slide rules. You'll see some of that play out here once in a while. They start throwing codes and algebra around and compete to see whose formula is geekier. Sometimes one will catch the other that a symbol or plus sign is out of order and they all rejoice and make merriment among themselves.
It's like "The big bang theory" show on TV. These days, pretty much all video editing is non-linear, meaning it can be done in any order with great flexibility. Non-linear editors NLEs replaced linear editing systems, the type of analog video editing done in the days before the advent of computer editing. Computers heralded a revolution in editing ease, speed, and flexibility. Read on to find out why non-linear editing is so much quicker and easier — and a few surprising things you could still learn from linear editing!
In the days of linear video editing, you had to edit in sequence due to the nature of the process. A linear editing bay consisted of a source deck which was basically a VCR from which they would play video. Finally, there were monitors to view both. The source deck fed directly into the record deck. In short, editors would load a tape containing the video they wanted into the source deck, scrub through the tape to the first frame where they want the segment to start, set an in point, then scrub through to the last frame of the desired segment, and set an out point.
The video fed to the record deck which was synchronized with the source deck so that it would start recording as soon as the source deck started playing, and stop recording when the source deck stopped playing.
They would then load the tape containing the next video segment they wanted into the source deck, mark the in and out points, and repeat the process. The segment from the source deck would then record to the tape in the record deck starting at the exactly the next frame after the previous recorded clip stopped. They would repeat this process for the entire program.
You get the idea of why this was effective, but limiting. The process was slow. Everything had to be done a specific order. Resolutions supported include 1K, 2K and 4K. Premiere integrates linking to After Effects CC for more complex special effects, to Photoshop CC for editing single frames, stills and titles, while colour grading is easily achieved though SpeedGrade CC albeit at further cost for these additional applications.
Adobe's Mercury Playback Engine ensures smooth playback on a modern PC, even at high resolution, without the need for preview file generation, and completed edits can be exported to a wide range of formats. As for the rest of the 'Linux' NLEs, Kdenlive has a good feature set and track record, with a healthy development community; Pitivi looks promising; and Cinelerra is a capable editor, although its slightly clunky graphics, floating windows and idiosyncratic operation count against it.
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