[ale] Free video editing software?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

What I'm playing with now is not the original...it is a copy I grabbed from youtube using the "kissyoutube" site.  Since the drummer has a video production company, he is getting the original footage from the people who did the show and will be able to do something that looks professional, but I am just playing around with it a little so that we can have a copy without all the interview segments.
Allen B.
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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of JD [jdp at algoloma.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 8:49 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Free video editing software?

On 10/10/2013 01:05 AM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> allow me to "chop up" a .wmv file.

If you could get the source in a better format ... mpeg2 or h.264, then there
are lots of choices.  WMV is just a container, so without nkowing the exact
codec used, we don't know if anything can cut it ... or even play the content.

If VLC can play it, then there should be lots of tools that can do what you want.

OTOH, WMV is known for proprietary formats that are hard to edit. Transcoding
always looses "some" quality, so minimizing transcodes is a basic idea. I doubt
the orginial recording was made in WMV.
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