Re: Simple Video Edtitng Software ?


"jaekriel" <jaekriel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok this may be a slightly (ahem) dumb question, but I am just looking
for a very simple video editing program that will allow me to merely
re-sync out of sync video / audio.

I know that if I have a video clip, and I pull it into Final Cut Pro,
and/or Adobe Premiere I can adjust the audio track in the time line to
sync up.

The problem is, FCP has compatiblitiy issues with certain file types ,
and Premiere does as well (occasionally) and it is a resource hog at
times.

And with either one - exporting out and rendering impoted files takes
FOREVER.

I'm just wondering if there is a very "simple" or scaled down Video
Editing Application that will allow me to import in vvideo files (of
all type - MPG, MP4, MOV, AVI - etc) and sync up audio with video and
export out into various formats.....without needed to be a full blown
professional video editing suite/application

That's all I really want.



Any suggestions/ideas would be very helpful.

Thanks


Re-syncing is most often a matter of re-muxing the audio
and video streams, adding a delay into one or the other as
needed. This requires no "rendering".

The audio and video appears to be all one thing when you
play one of the file types you mention, but those are container
files that can contain audio and video streams of a number of
different types. Files with .mpg and .mov have a limited
number of audio and video types that they can typically
contain. For .mp4 and especially .avi, almost any audio and
video type could be used.

Video can become "out of sync" due to errors in either
stream that effect playback of that stream. There is one
program that is very good at both correcting the effect of
those errors an re-muxing MPEG streams of all kinds;
www.VideoReDo.com ; with an automatic process.

For the other formats, you may need to clean up the
effects of the error(s) that caused the problem, manually.
There are a number of free tools that will do the job
without effecting the quality of the sound or video, or
require any lengthy processing or rendering.

http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/ and the other
versions of Virtual Dub, have "Direct Stream Copy"
mode. The "Audio skew correction" controls work
in that mode.

If you have a serious need for MPEG especially .mp4,
you might consider the Elecard XMuxer Pro.

Luck,
Ken


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