New Camera - Editing software

[lozcs]

Bought a SJ4000 camera (go pro copy) on ebay the other day, tested on first commute today, really impressed!

Used it for rear and original Sony action cam at the front - image really impressive!

Techmoan does a full review here

http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2014/2/3/the-sj4000-action-camera-review.html

on a quick note- I normally use Windows Movie Maker to edit footage - anyone recommend (preferably free!) software for multiple cameras (to include PIP)?

 

[AndyWilliams]

Interested in doing this myself, WMM can be a pain at times. I have googled and found this but not downloaded or tried anything.

http://photocamel.com/forum/digital-video/113021-two-videos-same-time.html

http://www.rehanfx.org/split_video.htm

Let me know if it works buddy, hopefully it does.

 

[7onagrifter]

Cant quite recall if Adobe premiere would suffice, theirs a trial but since mega^load got busted its a real pain now to get the full complete programs (dweav, photoshop etc) for nowt

 

[Mile195]

If you are serious about editing, Lightworks is utterly, utterly brilliant for a "free" package. I put that in speechmarks because while you get most of its functionality, some options you must upgrade for, but on the whole it's not a problem unless you want to export to any file format/codec other than optimum settings for youtube. If you've only ever used Movie Maker then the Learning curve will be very, very steep though. I have editing experience on Avid so for me it wasn't too bad but you won't find it very intuitive at first if you're completely new to that kind of software

If you can track down a copy of Avid FreeDV, that's a very, very basic version of what is used most widely in the television industry and will probably do all that you want, but they stopped doing it on their website a long time ago so you will have to find it elsewhere now.

As for Premier, as mentioned above that will also hit the mark in terms of functionality. More and more, that's also being used for professional television production but it costs alot of money. I think they used to do a deal for students, but it still won't be cheap.

Other than that, there are a few cheapo packages floating around on the internet. Search for "open source video editing software" and you'll find something.

 

[lozcs]

If you are serious about editing, Lightworks is utterly, utterly brilliant for a "free" package. I put that in speechmarks because while you get most of its functionality, some options you must upgrade for, but on the whole it's not a problem unless you want to export to any file format/codec other than optimum settings for youtube. If you've only ever used Movie Maker then the Learning curve will be very, very steep though. I have editing experience on Avid so for me it wasn't too bad but you won't find it very intuitive at first if you're completely new to that kind of software

If you can track down a copy of Avid FreeDV, that's a very, very basic version of what is used most widely in the television industry and will probably do all that you want, but they stopped doing it on their website a long time ago so you will have to find it elsewhere now.

As for Premier, as mentioned above that will also hit the mark in terms of functionality. More and more, that's also being used for professional television production but it costs alot of money. I think they used to do a deal for students, but it still won't be cheap.

Other than that, there are a few cheapo packages floating around on the internet. Search for "open source video editing software" and you'll find something.

Thanks, I have already downloaded Lightworks, not had a chance to look at it yet...

I used my trial of Premier a couple of years ago for something at work - found that quite straight forward for what I needed to do so hopefully be OK with Lightworks.

 

[Mile195]

Thanks, I have already downloaded Lightworks, not had a chance to look at it yet...

I used my trial of Premier a couple of years ago for something at work - found that quite straight forward for what I needed to do so hopefully be OK with Lightworks.

The manual for it isn't great, but it's better than many I've encountered. Otherwise there's a lot of helpful people on the forum for it if you can't find the info you need in the book. My one tip would be to close everything else down while you're running it. I find it stable and reliable most of the time, but I have known it to get a bit funny if there's other stuff running simultaneously, although this might be down to my hardware which could be better.