{"id":3105,"date":"2008-11-01T15:58:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T15:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/01\/pimp-me-video-editing-software\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T15:58:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T15:58:27","slug":"pimp-me-video-editing-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/01\/pimp-me-video-editing-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimp Me Video Editing Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve recorded a bunch of video for the dance-like-a-monkey thing. I want to edit several of these clips together in order to form a longer clip. I did this once before with video recorded using Kate’s camera, to make the Hoops With Moss<\/a> video, using the Movie Maker program that came with Vista on the tablet PC.<\/p>\n

Of course, because computers hate me, the webcam I used to record the monkey-dancing clips records in some DIVX format (video uses the DIVX 5.0 codec, audio is PCM audio, if that matters), and while downloading and installing the DIVX codec got Windows Media Player to recognize the clips as video clips, Movie Maker thinks they’re all just audio clips, and is thus useless to me.<\/p>\n

So, I am in need of some video editing software that will recognize my .avi files as video clips, and let me splice them together to make a longer movie. The ability to replace the audio on certain sections would be a nice bonus, but I can cope without that.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there must be something out there that will do this, so please recommend some to me, subject to the following conditions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1) The software in question must be free. My willingness to humiliate myself for charity only goes so far.<\/p>\n

2) The software in question must run on Windows. Either XP or Vista is fine– I’ve got one machine running each. If you use this as an excuse to talk about the wonders of MacOS or Linux, I will ban you from ScienceBlogs.<\/p>\n

3) It has to be usable by, well, me. Or, preferably, a chimpanzee, in which case I have a chance of getting it to work.<\/p>\n

The sooner I get something workable, the sooner you get monkey-dancing video. Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve recorded a bunch of video for the dance-like-a-monkey thing. I want to edit several of these clips together in order to form a longer clip. I did this once before with video recorded using Kate’s camera, to make the Hoops With Moss video, using the Movie Maker program that came with Vista on… Continue reading Pimp Me Video Editing Software<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}