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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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Video cropping tool
If you prefer using a CLI, you can use FFmpeg:
Free and open-source
Runs on Windows
Allows to crop: ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -filter:v "crop=out_w:out_h:x:y" out.mp4
Is CLI so you can batch.
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Video cropping tool
Any decent video editor would have this feature.
E.g. you can use VirtualDub:
Free and open-source
Runs on Windows
Has a GUI.
Can crop
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Open source video editing software for linux?
I recently came across Shotcut. It runs on Linux and it is based on the same backend as OpenShot: the MLT toolkit. It is opensource and crossplatform.
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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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View each frame of video and delete/edit them
You can use Avidemux:
free and open source
Windows/Linux/Mac
GUI
allows to view each frame and delete a group of them by selection
compatible with major video formats (usually no need to install any ...
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Open source video editing software for linux?
I rarely do video editing, but in the past used OpenShot. The "learning curve" is pretty low (compared to Cinerella), and it nicely integrates with Blender and other tools.
OpenShot screenshot (...

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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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How to enhance Videos? (like photoshop for images)
You can use Avidemux:
freeware / open-source
cross-platform
can also be used for cutting, encoding videos
compatible with many formats
After you install it, open the video file, then go to Video - ...
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Freeware video editing software
How about PiTiVi?
It's a Free Software video editor based on GStreamer. It's written in Python and should run on windows, although I wouldn't expect it to run as well there.
Have a look at the manual ...
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Video Editor able to synchronize multiple video and audio tracks for Linux
Kdenlive can synchronize videos using a audio reference. Select the track you want to use as the audio reference, press the right mouse button, and select Set Audio Reference. Then select the track ...
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Simple Video Editor for Windows
I would check out Filmora by WonderShare. It has a lot of features and still easy to use. It is able to run on Windows 7 and runs quickly for what it does. It can crop videos, mesh them together, and ...
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Freeware video editing software
A very powerful one DaVinci Resolve Free edition. This one needs a modern graphics card.
A really interesting option is HitFilm express.
It is not only an editor but also a compositor.
Avid is also ...
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Freeware video editing software
Here are a list of some free and commercial video editors -
Pinnacle Video Spin (Free, I used it much often, easy to use)
Sony Vegas Pro (Not free)
ArcSoft ShowBiz (Commercial trial)
Camtasia Studio (...
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Video cropping tool
XMediaRecode will do this for you. It is a video and audio transcoding program that works on Windows. It also supports a lot of different file types such as WMV, MP4, MP3, 3GP, Matroska and more. ...
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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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Looking for an easy to use strong video editor, preferably free
In my opinion VirtualDub is a good tool for your purpose. Also it's free
Light weight, small in size
Straightforward user interface
Enough professional
Super fast processing/converting
...
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A portable, free and simple video editor
That software exists, and better yet, it's open source:
AviDemux
It can cut MP4 files losslessly (hence very fast). It can also apply filters such a resize or rotation and recompress using a variety ...
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Software to make Photo Video maker with music?
You can do exactly this sort of thing with FFMPEG, (and much more of course), I recently used it to generate a slide show of shots for part of a video of a friends funeral to send to the other side of ...
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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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Video editing software like Sony Vegas
Lightworks offers a free version.
I found it was more capable then Windows Movie Maker
Has a free version that is limited compared to the pro version.
Ability to import existing video files and ...
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How to enhance Videos? (like photoshop for images)
Along with Avidemux, you can also use VirtualDub, another popular and open source solution. It's a bit more advanced and, by default, only takes AVI files. However, it has a bunch of filters that you ...
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Video cropping tool
If you have issues installing the proper codec on VirtualDub, you can use Avidemux:
free and open source
binaries for win32/win64
Go to Video > Filters > Crop
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Merging audio files into a video which shows the original file name while playing them
You can use ImageMagick (Free, open source, cross-platform, CLI) to create an image from some text:
convert \
-size 165x70 \
xc:lightblue \
-font Bookman-DemiItalic \
-pointsize 12 \
...
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Video Editing Software with Vector Graphics Annotation Capabilities
I guess “After Effect” is the best choice as a software that allows you to draw vector graphics in the frame and also with a video editing. You can study about the “After Effect” from the Wikipedia....
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Which video editing software should I use for Youtube videos?
Although not the easiest to use, Lightworks is a open source video cross platform editor that has been used by many hollywood movies. I have used the free version for years and it works no problem. ...
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Video editing plugin for Audacity or stand alone program
One of the less often mentioned facilities in the Blender 3D Modelling, Animation and Rendering toolkit is the Video Editor which also has an Audio Track Editor.
While it is not as powerful a sound ...
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Free Video maker that can animate pictures
You can do both in Blender - it has a bit of a learning curve but:
Insert Image into video by using the video as the texture for one object and move moving another - Yes in 3D Demo of Video texture ...
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Looking for a software to shrink 12 hour long video to 5 minutes video
You should be able to use ffmpeg for this with the framestep filter.
Free
Cross Platform
Supports most video types
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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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