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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android

I would suggest using the command line and ffmpeg as in: ffmpeg -ss start_time -i input_file .ext -t duration -vcodec copy -acodec copy output_file .ext .ext must be a supported video type and the ...
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Merging multiple MP4 video

VLC media player can convert and merge video files. Steps: Select File > Open Muliple Files Add the required files by clicking the add button From the dropdown menu below choose convert. Select ...
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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android

What you're looking for is AviDemux. AviDemux is an open-source GUI video processing software made in Linux which also has releases for Windows (x86 and x64), it also has a command-line version ...
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Video Editor for Windows?

Blender is a free and open-source 3D editing and includes a fully featured video editor. Note: Blender doesn't have the best learning curve, and might be a little difficult to use in the beginning, ...
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Video editor able to merge files

The easy answer is FFMPEG: Concatenate Video files of the same type, Yes and can convert types to produce a single file from multiple types, plus you can extract sections of the input files to ...
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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android

I would like to complete the other answers by referring this solution of mine on another thread that seems to solve the audio sync and beginning of frames frozen issues for ffmpeg : The key frame ...
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Want a free video joiner for Windows

I suggest taking a look at FFMPEG: Free, Open Source Cross Platform - but you will need to find an older build to run on XP, recent builds should be fine on Win7 and later. Supports just about every ...
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Video stabilizer software for Linux

Blender from blender.org and the software is free. Blender exist for windows,mac,linux numerous tutorials exists tutorial 1 google search blender video stabilization There are a number of steps, ...
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Video stabilizer software for Linux

Hands-free Linux method, with transcode's stabilizer filter. A crude wrapper function, (Bourne shell, bash, etc.): # Usage: shakeless foo.avi # eventually outputs stable_foo.avi unset slow # export ...
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Merging multiple MP4 video

You can do this task by using any-video-converter The program is pretty straight forward and you don't need any special tutorial for merging videos.If you face any difficulties, take a look at This ...
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Library for programmatic video manipulation

The most used tool/library for video manipulation is FFMPEG - It can read, slice, dice & write just about every video format that is out there and it is free, gratis & open source and cross ...
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Software to condense video down to a few minutes by merging moving objects and static background?

One open source solution that will require a little effort on your part would be to use OpenCV, if you don't wish to use a C++ compiler and all the fun and games that involves I suggest that you use ...
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Software for video trimming and/or mkv to mp4 converting without any quality loss

I would just use FFMPEG: Free, Gratis & Open Source Cross Platform - Runs on just about everything Cut & join mkv without loss of quality, just supply the start time(s) and duration for each ...
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Is there a tool to produce gif from screen recording for windows

ShareX is in my opinion the best tool to do this out there. It will capture screenshots, video, GIFs upload them automatically to your favorite service and much more. On top of that it's free and ...
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Need a video editing software for piecing together clips from YouTube/twitch

There's OpenShot, an open source application that runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. It's very versatile and relatively easy to use OpenShot Video Editor
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Video editor that works from plain-text files

AviSynth seems to be the tool that directly answers your needs on Windows. This is a completely script-based editing approach, with quite powerful instruments (built-in or as plug-ins) for reading, ...
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Video Editor for Windows?

DaVinci Resolve is a free fully fledged video editor that does most of the things on your list apart from transcoding and GIFs. Additionally, using it as a slideshow maker would be tedious and not ...
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I need simple software for videos editing and merging?

For your requirements, I recommend using OpenShot, or try something like Avidemux You can find a full comparison list here.
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Please suggest a free good video editing tool

I know a very good free video editing tool & a very good free YouTube downloader, but I think you're expecting too much to have them in one tool. Basically one is a highly professional video suite,...
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Edit video file while retaining the original format

VideoReDo TV Suite should do what you want, it's useful for trimming/splitting video files (you can also remove ads in your videos). With VideoReDo's perfected smart rendering technology you can ...
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Simple lossless video editor for Windows with MP4 support

I made a graphical tool that uses ffmpeg to let you losslessly trim videos by selecting the start and end points on the timeline: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut It is open source and cross ...
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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android

I suggest VideoReDo for Windows. You mark start and end and click cut. When your done cutting click save and save it in the orginal format.
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Free WAV to MP4 converters for Windows?

If you prefer using a CLI, you can use FFmpeg: Free and open-source Runs on Windows, OS X, Linux Allows to convert from wav to mp4 Is CLI so you can batch.
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Free WAV to MP4 converters for Windows?

You can use Virtualdub. File>Open video file (choose Image sequence file type, then choose your img) Audio>Audio from other file (choose your wav or mp3) Video>Frame Rate (check the option "Change so ...
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Professional Open Source Video Editor

Lightworks It's an extremely professional video editor that's been used in several Academy Award and Emmy winning movies. Some notable movies that used this editor in production include The Wolf Of ...
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Free Linux video program with special YouTuber effects

One possibility which fits your requirements is Blender - the 3-D modelling package which now includes a comprehensive video editing suite. Features relating to your requirements: Linux - Yes & ...
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Video stabilizer software for Linux

OpenShot has got a stabilizer filter since version 2.6.0: New Computer Vision and AI effects (motion tracking, object detection, stabilization) Here's a video showing how it works: Drag the '...
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Stop motion animation software

Although I haven't tried any of the software myself, I have found a couple that might be of interest (none of them is open source, however). First, if your son knows and likes working with Animator ...
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Merging multiple MP4 video

Normally I would use ffmpeg for this sort of thing, and many of the tools that you have tried may well do so behind your back, but with 300+ files you are likely to hit the command line buffer size ...
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Movable window that makes whatever under it inverted color

A long time ago I downloaded MagicAction For Youtube (extension plug-in, just for chrome I think), you can do a lot of things like buffer for video (to help to load it), and also some crazy thing like ...
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