{"id":9043,"date":"2014-02-05T14:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T19:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9043"},"modified":"2014-02-05T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T19:01:25","slug":"video-editing-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/02\/05\/video-editing-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Editing Software?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both SteelyKid&#8217;s kindergarten and the snow-day day-care program that the kids go to were closed today, which kind of threw a wrench in things. But it&#8217;s also kind of fun, as I got to spend some time playing outside with SteelyKid on her play set in the snow. The &#8220;featured image&#8221; above is a cell-phone snap from this, and I got three short video clips of her going down the slide.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pB0nXn5-dYc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JikyXsbOLB4?list=UU7ymL5G00acSuo0KJi9tPeQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TcXYKV8lHCA?list=UU7ymL5G00acSuo0KJi9tPeQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s kind of stupid for these to be three separate YouTube clips, but when I went to stick them together using Windows Movie Maker (which is what I&#8217;ve used for this sort of thing in the past), it turns out that it doesn&#8217;t recognize the .mp4 files that my phone produces as media files that it can import. It won&#8217;t handle the .mov files produced by my camera, either.<\/p>\n<p>While this seriously increases my long-standing desire to go to Silicon Valley and just start slapping software engineers for producing the idiotic gaggle of incompatible video formats that we&#8217;re stuck with, it also raises a serious problem, namely that one of the things I was hoping to work on in the next week or two is a short video on a science-y topic, which would potentially involve combining media clips. And since the only video editor I have is Windows Movie Maker, which is a worthless piece of crap that can&#8217;t handle the output of any of my media-recording devices, I apparently need a new video editing program.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I could try to use something like avidemux to convert between video formats until I find something my idiot software can handle. I could also stab myself in the eye with a fondue fork, which prior experience with format conversion suggests would be considerably more enjoyable.)<\/p>\n<p>So, wise and worldly readers, what should I be looking at, here? The constraints are that it has to run under Windows (I&#8217;m not switching to a Mac, no matter how much of a religious experience Apple users may find it to be, ditto Linux), should be simple before powerful (that is, I&#8217;ll accept a limited feature set if it&#8217;s easy to use, provided it can handle the files I have&#8211; what I want to do is basically like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4gqZUr8rvPw\">Bohr-Einstein puppet show<\/a> from a few years back), and shouldn&#8217;t be exorbitantly expensive. Free would be best, obviously, but I&#8217;m willing to pay a small amount of money for something that <em>works<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both SteelyKid&#8217;s kindergarten and the snow-day day-care program that the kids go to were closed today, which kind of threw a wrench in things. But it&#8217;s also kind of fun, as I got to spend some time playing outside with SteelyKid on her play set in the snow. The &#8220;featured image&#8221; above is a cell-phone&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/02\/05\/video-editing-software\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video Editing Software?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451,2,11,3,56,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computing","category-personal","category-science","category-steelykid","category-technology","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043","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=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}