Editing race vids

[BertBert]

What do people use to edit race vids? I only want to cut out the dull stuff, join bits together and add a caption page at the beginning.

Vid editing programs always seems inexplicable to me! I used to use windows movie maker, but the version that works on Win 10 seems a mess!

Tks
Bert
PS Fortunately my driving is a little better than my vid editing, but it's a close call

[stevieturbo]

I've only ever used Moviemaker on W7 etc. I have used Racerender to add overlays, but pretty sure it can do editing tasks as well ?

[BertBert]

Yes, I'm trying regretting not having win 7! I'll have a look at race render. Thanks!
Bert

[Fishy Dave]

Hi Bert,

I use AVS http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Editor.aspx, worth buying the unlimited subscription. It's easy to use and does everything that you're likely to need. I used to use Adobe Premier years ago and actually prefer this.

Cheers, Dave

[stevieturbo]

Just had a look at RR.

I can see in it where it will let you basically shorten the video you want to work with an add an overlay, altering start and finish. But dont see how you could easily do multiple cuts like you would with Moviemaker.

So probably not what you'd be after

[BertBert]

Cool, thanks for looking!
Bert

[IanUAE]

I used to use iMovie. Found it very easy to use.

[BertBert]

I guess I should have said I'm a Windoze and not a Mac user!!

[Mr_Thyroid]

LightWorks is very good, and free.

The workflow isn't obvious but there is a getting started video on the website - once watched it's easy.

[Centurion07]

VSDC Video Editor.

Quite basic compared to some I would imagine, but it's free and for what you want probably fine.

[MR2_SC]

Persevere with windows live movie maker. It's still pretty easy, free and seems to use very little computing power. I can edit GoPro 1080/60 footage on a £150 windows tablet without any problem. Simple to add title screen and captions too.

Otherwise GoPro studio is free but seems to crash a lot but has some useful features.

Edited by MR2_SC on Thursday 16th February 10:49

[Altrezia]

I use GoPro Studio when using 1 camera - and AfterEffects when using multiple.

[RobM77]

I've done all mine on Movie Maker in Windows 7. I use the same for my scuba videos. It's nice and easy to use and if I remember rightly it can even burn a watchable DVD.

Can I infer from the above that MM has gone in the latest versions of Windows? I use it constantly. I did wrestle with Go Pro studio for a while, but found it so unintuitive that it was almost impossible to use - shame.

[stevieturbo]

RobM77 said:

I've done all mine on Movie Maker in Windows 7. I use the same for my scuba videos. It's nice and easy to use and if I remember rightly it can even burn a watchable DVD.

Can I infer from the above that MM has gone in the latest versions of Windows? I use it constantly. I did wrestle with Go Pro studio for a while, but found it so unintuitive that it was almost impossible to use - shame.

I think a lot of useful stuff disappeared with the "upgrade" to W10...either that or they want you to purchase them

[Altrezia]

You can still install movie maker in w10 - it's just not included by default. Search for Windows Live Essentials.

[BertBert]

Sadly, it's not the same one as the well-loved original from Vista/Win7

In fact it's horrid!!

Altrezia said:

You can still install movie maker in w10 - it's just not included by default. Search for Windows Live Essentials.

[RobM77]

Altrezia said:

You can still install movie maker in w10 - it's just not included by default. Search for Windows Live Essentials.

Thanks

edited to add: Now discontinued apparently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Make...

[steeviegeebies]

I just use YouTube video editor. It's free and easy to use - you can find it on your YouTube channel. There are also various videos on there on how to use it.

[BertBert]

Well as it happens, I thought I should get around to trying some of the suggestions and see what I like.

I started with AVS yesterday as suggested by Fishy Dave. I made a vid, it was ok. I struggled a bit to get opening titles on a blank blue page, so ended up overlaying them on the vid at the start of the race. Need to work on that.

Youtube is a good suggestion other than you have to upload all the vids. They can be whoppas, especially the gopro ones.

Bert

[ol]

I use Final Cut Pro X, which is a bit more in-depth - here's an edit I just did a few days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB39B42_ULM?vq=hd1...

If its just cutting the start and end off footage, then MPEG Streamclip will do it, but it wont do much else...

If you're trying to use the You Tube one, then you need to shrink the footage - there is a programme called 'Handbrake' which massively reduces Go Pro file size with no visible quality loss. I'm using mac, but pressure its also available on windows.

Edited by ol on Wednesday 1st March 12:54