Good video editor for starters?

[Deleted member 50521]

I filmed a short VR film for 2D monitor view, demonstrating some research I am currently working on. Problem is I need to edit out some parts. Are recommended video editor for newbies? Does not have to be fancy.

 

[jboydgolfer]

I've used the built-in Windows movie maker before and it sufficed for simple projects. If you need to compress heavily VLC media player does a good job of it.

Vegas was my main program, but its pricey, & has a learning curve, + its more of a serious program

If you're on windows 10 , essentials didn't come with the newer operating system ,but you can still get movie maker in the windows store ,or if you have access to Windows 7 PC even better. The classic movie maker (last I knew) did still work with windows 10 perfectly fine, they just stopped including it for some reason

 

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[erocker]

I use Virtuadub for editing out what I need to and Handbrake for transcoding.

 

[hat]

I believe you can plug in whatever encoders you want with VirtualDub, so re-encoding with Handbrake shouldn't be necessary for a project like this. I remember VirtualDub losing all streams but the video stream I was working on though, so I had to re-mux audio and other tracks back in with something like mkvtoolnix later. There may or may not be a way around that with VD, I didn't mess with it for too long...

 

[Deleted member 50521]

I've used the built-in Windows movie maker before and it sufficed for simple projects. If you need to compress heavily VLC media player does a good job of it.

Vegas was my main program, but its pricey, & has a learning curve, + its more of a serious program

If you're on windows 10 , essentials didn't come with the newer operating system ,but you can still get movie maker in the windows store ,or if you have access to Windows 7 PC even better. The classic movie maker (last I knew) did still work with windows 10 perfectly fine, they just stopped including it for some reason

Ended up using MS movie studio for the quick editing and handbrake for transcoding. Pretty neat. Thanks everyone!

 

[erocker]

I believe you can plug in whatever encoders you want with VirtualDub, so re-encoding with Handbrake shouldn't be necessary for a project like this. I remember VirtualDub losing all streams but the video stream I was working on though, so I had to re-mux audio and other tracks back in with something like mkvtoolnix later. There may or may not be a way around that with VD, I didn't mess with it for too long...

I use Handbrake because you have a lot of control over the quality/filesize.

 

[The_DriverX]

FYI: You might want to look at this for the future: https://www.openshot.org/

 

[Deleted member 50521]

OK here is another question. Any known good VR video editors? Preferably something that allows both monitor editing and VR HMD editing.

I am going 0 to 100 really fast I know. But while learning it might as well pick as much as I can.

 

[The_DriverX]

Maybe check this out: http://360rumors.com/2017/06/this-is-best-free-360-video-editor-ive.html I don't know anything about this software, so I can't comment.

 

[kyoshima]

Thank you for this recommendation!