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I have a load of .avi files from my ninth semester work as a music therapist for children with severe developmental disorders. I'd like to make some compilations of these videos for the parrents. So what I need is:

* an easy to use software
* that lets me cut out bits from different .avi files
* and lets me write comments - like sub titles
* as I am a student, it would be great if it was free - or close to free
* and it must be able to handle files larger than 4 GB

If you know a piece of software, which fulfils these criteria, please pass on the knowledge

Windows Media Maker:

http://download.cnet.com/Windows-Movie- ... 65075.html

Flask mpeg is another editor. I would not call it exactly easy to use but it has more options. I don't think it has titles though. Sometimes when you are using free software, you have to use more than one program.

http://flaskmpeg.net/

Well I had written a lengthy writeup but FF crashed on OSX and I lost it. Quick summary:

Virtualdub & Virtualdubmod are closer to flaskmpeg in that they're great for video processing/cutting & edits *within* the same file. As a nonlinear editor I'd look elsewhere. Magix Movie Edit Pro (here) and WIndows Movie Maker 2.1 (latest xp version, download here) or 2.6 (for vista, download here) are the most widely used 'easy'/'cheap' programs I know of.

There are a lot of avisynth based tools out there, but that's a scripting language and it takes a bit of work to assemble enough tools to handle the simple titling & editing you require. There's a page listing video editing software here that might be worth perusing, there are a number of free tools available to windows on that page.

For 'subtitles' what you want is an app that supports titling, or a separate 'titling' app, or a compositor that has the ability to handle text (or perhaps a titling app that renders white text onto 'superblack' that you can then 'lumakey' over your video, or even png/tga files with alpha if your chosen editor supports that, etc.)

Magix has a sale on Movie Edit Pro right now.
Great, inexpensive NLE.

Greg

Let's Edit from Canopus. It's fairly cheap (UKP65)

Eric.

there are also some opensource ones which get the job done, but are cryptic and unstable. Check out
Jashaka
http://jahshaka.org/

Blender? (I read it does non linear editing, but I've only used it for 3d and have never seen anything tha suggests it does editing... but it says so on wiki)
http://www.blender.org/

Hi guys

Thanks for all your suggestions. For now, I am testing the 30 days trial version of Corel Video Studio.

Good luck

kensuguro wrote:Blender? (I read it does non linear editing, but I've only used it for 3d and have never seen anything tha suggests it does editing... but it says so on wiki)
http://www.blender.org/

It does editing in the way that a compositor would...

edit: sorry, wrong topic