Video editing software?

[MNKyDeth]

I am looking for some easy to use video editing software for personal use.

I do some live streaming on twitch from time to time and I also do some recording to my desktop via fraps if I want raw video data.

I seem to be at a loss for a low cost but easy to use solution for video editing. I mostly want to do little things for myself or to show off features or comparisons of pieces of hardware that I am capturing. it may expand past this at some point but I am yet unsure if I will use this more than just in passing from time to time.

If you have any suggestions on software to try, let me know.

[esteban]

MS Notepad

[ccovell]

Me too!  I was going to ask the same question.  What is a good, freeware (so I'm cheap, sue me) piece of software that captures video from USB capture devices, and/or edits it?

[MNKyDeth]

MS Notepad

Btw...

Natas and I made up and I reinstated him to power once again. I felt the calling of the dark side and thought it only appropriate.

[SuperDeadite]

MS Notepad+ AVISynth can do almost anything if you take the time to learn it.

For capturing AmaRecTV.

[SuperPlay]

Microsoft Movie Maker?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/movie-maker

[esteban]

MS Notepad

Btw...

Natas and I made up and I reinstated him to power once again. I felt the calling of the dark side and thought it only appropriate.

I knew everything would work out.

[xelement5x]

MS Notepad+ AVISynth can do almost anything if you take the time to learn it.

For capturing AmaRecTV.

I can second AmaRecTV, it is a nice capture software designed for retro stuff.  I didn't use his official driver/encoder though.

[KnightWarrior]

VideoPad

[majors]

I have not used it but a co-working told me he was looking for a free video editing solution and told me the video software within Blender (Video Sequence Editor) is good. Just throwing it out there...

[MNKyDeth]

Hmm, trying to setup AmaRecTV today. It doesn't seem to play nice with the AverMedia LiveGamer HD capture card.

It sees it but will not establish a connection and just throws out errors no matter the options I choose.
I did a lot of searching and it seems this card may not work with this software.

I can get the games to display in OBS but you can tell the quality of the picture is not as good as the source. This tells me it is compressing the image or downscaling it. I want to get a lossless picture from my LiveGamerHD to be displayed on screen so I can record it with a lossless codec.

Then I want to edit the video's for comparison sake but I can only get accurate comparisons if everything is lossless.

Anyone have any ideas?


Edit:
Good god, I finally got it. I have to use the Avermedia Stream Engine software in order for AmaRecTV to connect to the card properly. Selecting the card itself in the menu will not work. Adjusting the screen size to 1280x720 both screen look exactly the same. So I am satisfied that I am no longer getting a compressed image on my main computer screen.

Now to decide on the recording software. Fraps does raw video..... I am also doing a 720p resolution with my framemeister as the LiveGamerHD can only do 30fps in 1080p but can do 60fps in 720p. So figured I would upscale it to 720p and keep everything as smooth and accurate as possible.

I am trying to get ready for a comparison between composite, RGB + sync using composite video signal, RGB with a sync stripper in the cable and RGB using pin 44 for sync.

I am hoping to show as many scenarios as possible. RGB amp from Turbokon, RGB amp from mickris, Component V2 board from Turbokon. That's the plan anyways. And work on that translation list at some point... gah!!

[SuperDeadite]

If you are that serious, give the Avermedia crap the finger and buy a 　SC-512N1-L/DVI or XCapture-1, as it can input everything from 240p RGB to 1080/60 with absolutely no scaling when using Amarec.  And  combined with a Framemeister for mind blowing captures.

[_joshuaTurbo]

In Linux I enjoy Open Shot or LiVES.  Both are open software and free.  They can do pretty basic stuff.

If you look for a crack/license for something called VideoStudio by Corel for Windows.  It's a more basic version of adobe's editing software.  I use it for stuff like titles and stuff.

Sample-

VideoStudio is something like a simplified version of the more expensive tools and I'm not very skilled yet, but will keep playing around with it.

[GaijinD]

I'm not sure it qualifies as easy, as the interface was designed something like twenty years ago for professional editors that were used to working with tape decks and is a bit hard to wrap your head around if you're used to clicking and dragging, but Lightworks may be worth taking a look at. It's a professional level product that now has a free version. It's not too bad to use if you can get the hang of using the keyboard and marking in and out points, though my computer is too old to run it well so I haven't messed with it much. Theoretically, though, it should do things your average consumer software can't.