HD Video editing

[Bill Davidsen]

Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:07:36 +0800
> Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/22/14 18:05, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> A quick test shows that avidemux can edit the file.  I've not checked to
>>> see if some components from RPM Fusion are required.  And, I've not
>>> check to see if there is any loss in quality when standard defaults are
>>> used to "copy" the video.
>>
>> Ooops...  Just realized that avidemux-qt does come from RPM Fusion Free.
>
>   I'm not a Fedora-purist, so rpmfusion is fine. A quick check show that I
> can open and convert the file to other formats. But the timestamp in the
> stream is missing. It's encoded as a subtitle strem in the videofile, but I
> can't get that to show. Also, what are the editing capabilities of avidemux?
> If I want to assemble a complete video from several parts of the input, and
> add crossfades or other transitions, captions, overlayes and so on, will
> avidemux still be the proper choice?
>
avidecode is easiest to use as a cut and snip editor, other choices have been 
posted. You can also look at ffmpeg, which is nice for bulk convert tasks. I 
have found avidecode does the best job of the tools I have used in terms of 
keeping the sound and audio in sync, ffmpeg with async option comes right 
behind, and has some offset options which are sometimes helpful if the out of 
sync is a constant in the source material.

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