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On 2021-12-21, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> As someone who has experimented with video editing software, I can |
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> understand Wols on this. What some of us needs is something similar to |
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> 'video editing for dummys' except we need the software not the book. At |
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> one time, I wanted to remove like 20 or 30 seconds on the beginning and |
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> about the same on the end of a few videos. Hours later, still couldn't |
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> figure it out. Heaven forbid I wanted to remove something in the middle |
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> as well or add a second or so of black screen. |
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I've had pretty much the same experience with all of the GUI video |
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editing software I've tried: |
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0. It takes at a day just to get one to build. |
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1. The GUI is always completely baffling, and there doesn't seem to |
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be any commonality from one package to the next. |
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2. There's little or no documentation available other than lists of |
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commands/features with descriptions that assume you already know |
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how the program works. When you need to know how to accomplish a |
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task, there's no help. It is always assumed you already know what |
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command/feature to use. |
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3. The "project" structure and paradigm always seems to be WAY too |
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complex for what I want to do and does nothing for me other than |
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get in the way. |
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4. About 30% of the features/commands don't work at all, another 30% |
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don't work they way the documentation says they do, and the rest |
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have been renamed and moved to a different menu/panel/mode since |
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the documentation was written. |
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5. All of the ones I've ever tried crashed frequently. They crash |
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when adding a source, when adding or changing an edit, |
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transitions, or effect. They crash when exporting/rendering. |
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Melt is the only one I've ever been able to actually accomplish |
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something useful with. The really nice thing is that you can write a |
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bash (or other) program to automate stuff. If all you want to do is |
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concatenate a directory full of video clips with some intro, outro, |
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and transitions, you can write a script that does that and then run it |
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on as many different directories or lists of files as you want. |
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You don't have to set up a new project and start from scratch every time. |