Need video editing software

[TeeJay3800]

What I'd like to do is save a YouTube video (that part is easy) and then edit it so just a portion of the video is left, rather than the whole thing. Can someone recommend some video editing software that is capable of that? Thanks!

 

I searched the forum and came across DVDShrink. Will this be able to do what I need?

[Andavari]

DVD Shrink won't work for that, you need something that can edit FLV, or even transcode it into another format like DVD Video which you could only then use DVD Shrink for as it only works with valid DVD Video.

 

You could try this 100% clean open source called Avidemux, which is supposed to support FLV, I like that program allot. Note that with Avidemux you have to manually type in the actual file extension when saving.

[TeeJay3800]

Thanks! Avidemux should work fine since KeepVid.com saves videos as MP4, not FLV.

[BrownSugar]

Avidemux is an excellent program. I've been using it to edit and convert from very early versions on and it's been greatly improved over the last two years.

 

Another great tool to have (in case you're not happy with the Avidemux editing) is Virtualdub. In the past, if you wanted to make sure Virtualdub handled all files, you had to go to several sites for plugins. but Videohelp.com has put together a pack of all the extra plugins you'll need to decode files such as flv, mpeg2, mp4 and mov.

 

All the links are located here:

 

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Virtualdub

 

Remember that:

 

1) While Avidemux is an all-in-one self contained program that has all the codecs you'll need, Virtualdub relies on your system codecs for encoding,

so if you don't have Xvid or some other codec installed, you can either install them one by one, install ffdshow, or the one of the K-lite codec packs found here:

 

http://www.codecguide.com/

 

 

2) Virtualdub will only convert to an avi file (preferably Xvid), but I find that it's a better editor than Avidemux. When using Avidemux, if you don't cut your scene on a key frame, you'll get several seconds of jumbled video during scene changes. Virtualdub handles edits much better.

[Andavari]

Does VirtualDub have the ability to keep things in sync? The issue I'm having with everything is it gets about 1-2 seconds out of sync starting at about 20 minutes, but I haven't used VirtualDub as of yet.

 

Edit:

Forgot to mention, the out of sync problem only happens when editing commercials out of TV programs only.