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I've got a handful of mp4 video clips (a minute or two each). All I |
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want to do is |
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1) Concatenate them with fade-in at beginning of each clip and fade-out |
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at the end of each clip. |
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2) Superimpose a title at the beginning for a few seconds. |
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Can anybody recomment a simple video editor? |
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So far I've tried Openshot and Cinelerra and niether is usable even |
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for my trivial task. |
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Openshot 2.07 |
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The native amd64 build segfault a _lot_. Any time you try to move |
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the "playback head" or whatever it's called it segfaults. Various |
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other GUI operations also cause a segfault. Sometimes it gets the |
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project file into some broken state and then can't even start up and |
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load the project file without segfaulting. |
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Oh, and it "auto saves" periodically, so you can't even rely on it |
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not borking a working project file even though you never clicked |
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"save". |
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The AppImage binary at least allows the GUI to work, but it can't |
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render a 5 minute video. It either aborts part-way through or just |
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locks up burning 100% CPU until you send it a SIGKILL. |
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I was finally able to set up the edits using the AppImage binary, |
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then open the project using the native Gentoo binary and render the |
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video. The resulting video quality was terrible. The video |
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stuttered, pixellated, and in some spots even appeared to jump |
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forward/backward repeatedly. That was with the highest quality |
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setting (the output file size was acually significantly larger than |
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the sum of the input file sizes). Even though the video quality was |
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severly degraded. |
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Cinelerra 2012 (stable). |
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I used Cinelerra for a small project once before, and though it |
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_worked_ I hated every second of it. The GUI is a nightmare. It |
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uses some home-made widget set that I find incomprehensible. |
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I could probably grit my teeth long enough for this simple task, |
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except Cinelerra seems unable to deal with AAC audio. It |
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misidentifies as some other PCM format, and all of the imported |
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files just have a short burst of noise at the beginning followed by |
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silence. Cinelerra also doesn't seem to be able to play the |
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imported.mp4 video files at the proper framerate it's bog-standard |
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Android phone video: H264 1280x720 30fps, but Cinelerra insists on |
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playing at a some higher frame-rate. |
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I may try Cinelerra 2014, but I'm not optimistic -- Cinelerra is known |
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for it's slow rate of change. |