[ale] Free video editing software?

[Adrya Stembridge]

A similar thread was posted a couple months ago.   Openshot is what you are
looking for.   http://openshot.org/


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> I'm looking for some free software that will allow me to "chop up" a .wmv
> file.  For example, if the file is 30 minutes long, and I want to save out
> a separate clip of 12:25 to 15:42 minutes only.  I would prefer a Linux
> package, but something that will run on MacOS would work, too.
>
> Here is what I'm trying to do -
> My girlfriend's band was on a local TV show, and the format of the show is
> talk a little, play a song, talk a little, play a song, etc..  in reality,
> when it was filmed, they did all the talking in one block, all the music in
> one block, and they spliced them all together into the show.
> Anyway, I have a .wmv of the entire 30 minute show, and permission from
> the producers to do whatever we want with it (yay!).  The drummer actually
> has a professional video production company, so he is going to work with
> them to get their original footage and do something a bit more
> sophisticated, but I've pulled a copy from YouTube, and I want to play
> around with it in the meantime :)
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for something that will let me easily
> chop it up into individual songs?
>
> <begin shameless plug>
>  Oh, if any of you want to see the show, it is here - it is very local,
> but entertaining:
> The first two songs weren't the best audio-wise, but were not that bad -
> the song at 14:05 to 16:50 ("Robot Girl") is probably the best audio
> quality:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om30Tvbr_zE
>
> They also recently had a professionally done video created, and here is
> the link to it if you want to hear what they sound like in better audio
> quality - with some awesome production work done:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSQw-GuR6ZU
>
> Oh, my girlfriend (Sandra) is the one with the reddish hair/lightning bolt
> earings doing most of the vocals, and the band's name is Mary Tylosaur :)
>  Chuck, you met her at the SUSE Linux Days event a few months back.
> </end shameless plug>
>
> Sorry, I didn't mean for it to turn into an [OT] post in the end, but I
> couldn't help but share the youtube links.  Oh, and back to the main topic
> - any suggestions on the video software would be appreciated :)
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
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