Video Editing
#1
Posted 06-12-2011 08:12 AM
Free is great, sub-$100 is okay. Windows XP required.
Oh yeah, its GoPro video so, mp4 format is required. Thus, Movie Maker is out; unless someone knows something I don't.
Recommendations?
-tch
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#2
Posted 06-12-2011 08:33 AM
Some good discussion here:
http://mazdaracers.c...p?showtopic=893
#4
Posted 06-12-2011 09:38 AM
I found a decent free editor, VideoPad. It works: allows selection of in/out segments from multiple videos, etc; transition effects, audio tracks, sub-titles, the usual. Seems to encode okay without loss in quality. The primary issue is that the encode seems to be single-core, software only (no HW/GPU acceleration). So, its dog-slow...took about 8 minutes to encode a 1 minute video. I have a core i7 running at 3.6GHz with 3GB of usable RAM (6GB total, but in XP you only get ~3 available). In task manager you can clearly see that it has maxed only 1 CPU at 100% while the other 7 are idling at 5%.
Sony Vegas will use all cores, and the GPU apparently. 245MB download....hmmm.
-tch
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#5
Posted 06-12-2011 12:40 PM
On the other side of my home partition I do have 64 bit Vista and we have 64 bit Win 7 on some apps at work that require that platform. And get as much ram as you can afford and as fast of a disk as you can. If I had to try to do that on Windows I'd get
#6
Posted 06-12-2011 03:00 PM
Video (and audio to an extent) is resource intensive. Going to 64 bit and an app that is multi thread aware will help. What you are seeing is related to a)cost and B ) platform. Not to start a platform jihad but this is one area with MacOS really shines. That's why it's the choice of fat, crusty entertainment pros that pretend to be race car drivers on the weekends.
On the other side of my home partition I do have 64 bit Vista and we have 64 bit Win 7 on some apps at work that require that platform. And get as much ram as you can afford and as fast of a disk as you can. If I had to try to do that on Windows I'd getAdobe Premier Lite or whatever they call it these days, on second thought, the light weight Vegas package looks good, it's about a hun, buck up the ram and get Win 7.
Yeah, I spent a good portion of my career designing high-end intel and AMD platforms...from the days of the multi-processor pentium III's to the first multi-processor-multi-core CPUs. I was on the team that booted windows on a 4-way Opteron. It's less about the OS internals, and more about the relationship between the people who work with these platforms, and the people who develop them. MacOS was the platform of choice early on, so the market adopted the platform. The developers who target the market then must develop on it...etc....There is very little actual computing difference between the two platforms at this stage. But, the PC version of the marketplace is much less mature.
I've been playing with the trial version of Vegas (the $100 version). it DOES use GPU accel, and all 8 cores from my i7-940, ram doesn't seem to be a limiting factor as it is not using the full 2GB process space available under XP. Render rate from GoPro 720p@60fps to "Internet HD"@30fps is essentially 1:1, eg. 1 minute to render 1 minute of video....that's acceptable....
Now...to upgrade that video driver....
-tch
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#7
Posted 06-13-2011 12:36 PM
You don't need to do too much to edit the GoPro vids. The new Movie Maker in Win 7 should be enough though something like Vegas is going to offer more in terms of flexibility and functionality. On my tour vids I'd do titles, wipes, dissolves, etc but on the track footage I hack off the pre grid and post grid and put it up. The last couple in fact I used MPEG Streamclip and didn't import into Final Cut at all.
#8
Posted 06-13-2011 02:43 PM
-Cy
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#9
Posted 06-13-2011 03:55 PM
Which option is that cy? I used the "Internet hd" option but, i don't recall seeing a bandwidth statement. Oh, wait you have version 10, right?
-tch
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#10
Posted 06-13-2011 04:40 PM
-Cy
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#11
Posted 06-13-2011 05:01 PM
-tch
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