Does anyone know of a free (or that I can obtain for free) video editing software that let's me use existing video/audio without changing the quality? I searched google, but I couldn't find anything that suited my needs. (I really just need to put several existing videos into one, then be able to cut out from the large one as necessary. Anything else would be extra.) Any help would be greatly appreciated and sorry if it's in the wrong place, it's regarding video software, so I thought the video section was right.
Well, you could always crack Sony Vegas. It's mildly illegal, but the price tag for the program is ludicrous anyways.
It's funny. The first product on their list is "cost effective" and is 400 dollars... That said, I've never done, and don't know how to do anything illegal. Including getting programs without paying for them. I wouldn't even know the first step to doing that.
I'd start by installing a really good antivirus, and then checking out a wonderful little site called Pirate Bay.
As great a deal as it is... I am easily stupid enough to get a thousand viruses from the ads along the way. I bad at computering. - - Auto Merge - - I just tried it and accidentally installed 2 programs I didn't want which I quickly deleted. Edit- I am REALLY bad at this internet thing.
Anything free and legal will be on par with windows movie maker, which isn't much... But if you're just cutting videos up that's probably enough. Sent from my XT1080M using Tapatalk
Actually, I need to put clips together. I have a recording software that works fantastic, but to save space it splits everything up into like one and a half minute clips. I need to put it together, then be able to cut out what I need. I know just about any editing software can do that, but I don't want to lose any quality on the audio or video, which is where the problem arises.
Re-rendering video files will cause some quality loss no matter what... You can't re-render a video and it not lose any quality unless the format was lossless to begin with and of course the program supporting said format... Lossless video codecs are very few and far between and the only ones I am aware of are in pro software like Adobe Premier. What codecs does this recording software use? Sent from my XT1080M using Tapatalk
It's just FRAPS. I am certain it is not one of the "lossless" ones... So, what I'm hearing is that a quality loss is guaranteed to happen if I attempt to put it through an editor of any kind? If so, I could live with it, but I'd still like to keep the quality as high as I could.
If your videos are originally in HD and you export them again as such, the perceived degradation should be very low. If you're uploading them to YouTube, they compress the videos themselves so keep that in mind.
I don't think my videos are in HD, and I wouldn't know how to find out. Honestly, I've used two easy-to-get free editing programs, and in the preview of the final product they seemed to have vastly dropped in quality (the video was extremely pixel-y), which is what worried me. I was hoping there would be better software, but it's sounding like I should expect that no matter what I put the clips through. And I know YouTube's compression is unnoticeable on the original videos as I uploaded the first clip (since it was a separate thing) and it seemed fine.
What I meant was, you want to try and match the bitrate and resolution of the video files when your re-render them. You can find the bitrate of the original video by right clicking properties and go to the details tab. That's really the only advice I can give, at least for free tools. You're vastly limited in formats and what you can do. If you can play around with codecs, I'd try some different ones and see the best result, but even that may not be available.
If you want something more in-depth, there's always Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 for absolutely nothing. The entire range should still be free if you sign in and poke around for long enough. It's pretty good, even if it is showing it's age a little. Such as certain file types that are common these days not being supported so keep a converter handy. I was able to make the Community Post #100 video using that. It's certainly isn't a slouch.
You mean MERGE the videos and then SPLIT the big one? AppGeeker Editor http://www.appgeeker.com is the way to go if you want to do such things. It's what I use, it has a very intuitive interface and easy to use.
