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  • MyDogHasFleas
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    • Apr 2008
    • 529

    #1

    Lean video editing software?

    I'm looking for simple lean video editing software. I just need to delete chunks of video from the file. To make the video shorter. I don't need to add anything to the video. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can use? I don't have a super computer to run some of that other stuff on.
  • Helix
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    • Feb 2002
    • 6021

    #2
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...iting_software

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    • Caligari
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      • Oct 2009
      • 5414

      #3
      Windows movie maker, it can do that precisely and quickly and its free.

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      • Operator
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        • May 2009
        • 2419

        #4
        http://virtualdub.org

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        • raymor
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          • Oct 2002
          • 3745

          #5
          mencoder is about as lean as you're going to get. It's about a 7MB download for Windows, smaller for POSIX systems like Linux.
          That's what I use. Look up "edit decision lists", or EDL. They mark chunks you want to take out.

          To make the edl, play under video with:
          mplayer -edlout somefile.edl thevideo.mpeg

          Use your spacebar to mark sections to cut.
          Edit the edl in a text editor if you want, thrn run the final edit something like:
          mplayer -edl.somefile.edl thevideo.mpeg newcopy.mpeg

          The script I actually use is:
          #!/bin/sh

          edl=/tmp/edl.$$

          echo "playing video, please press 'i' to start and end skips"
          sleep 2
          mplayer -ao sdl -quiet -edlout $edl $2 $3 "$1"
          echo -e "\n\nPreviewing video...\n"
          sleep 2
          mplayer -ao sdl -edl $edl "$1"
          echo -e "\n\nTo change timing, edit $edl\n\n"
          echo -e "New name?: "
          read newname
          mencoder "$1" -edl $edl -oac copy -o "$newname" -ovc copy

          On Windows you can run it by hand, adjust the above to be a bat file, or use cygwin.
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          • INever
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            • Jan 2005
            • 4031

            #6
            FOr VERY SIMPLE stuff like this I'd use IMovie for the edit/chops and MPEG Streamclip if I wanted to interlace/deinterlace to reduce digital artifacts.
            Last edited by INever; 01-03-2012, 02:48 PM.
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            • chaze
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              • Aug 2002
              • 9774

              #7
              Originally posted by MyDogHasFleas
              I'm looking for simple lean video editing software. I just need to delete chunks of video from the file. To make the video shorter. I don't need to add anything to the video. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can use? I don't have a super computer to run some of that other stuff on.
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