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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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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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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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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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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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Windows 10 software to cut / trim down videos
How about LosslessCut?
Shave gigabytes off video and audio files in seconds without loss of
quality
Losslessly trim or cut out parts of video/audio
Lossless merge/concatenation of arbitrary files (...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Open source software to create videos
I would recommend HitFilm 3 Express.
It works on Windows, it is free and it has some pretty good capabilities. It should be able to do most of the things that you describe. It can trim videos, and ...
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Lossless, graphical audio/video file editor for Mac
There are a number of FFMPEG GUI front ends but when combining clips you will find that it is necessary to re-encode if any of the following are true:
The last frame of one clip is not exactly one ...
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Library for programmatic video manipulation
You could check out the LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK to implement this type of task. It supports C, C++, .NET and will work with other languages that support COM objects. This SDK supports decompressing ...
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Software for video resizing (spatial AND temporal)
FFMPEG can do both including changing format and encoding, the following example assumes that you wish to downscale to 500x500 and 5 fps.
ffmpeg -i input.avi -vf scale=500:500 -r 5 output.avi
or
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Video Editing: Crop Frame by Frame
I have Magix Video Deluxe, which is a commercial solution ~70 € / 80 USD.
It can
read and write MP4 material
can deal with Full HD material (tested with Big Buck Bunny in 30 fps)
can rotate by 90°
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Remove fingers from video of phone manipulation
Traditionally this is done through a technique called Green Screening you would wear gloves of a given colour and the software would replace anything of that colour with the background from previous ...
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Windows video editor for time-warping
A new player to the windows world is kdenlive, a non-linear video editor which fits your requirements of being zero cost, as well as supporting speed change effects.
This wiki page references the ...
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Video Editor where I can hold a button while playing to select sections for removal
https://kdenlive.org/
http://www.openshot.org/download/
Keyboard shortcuts here:
http://openshotusers.com/help/1.4/en/ar01s05.html
They are free and you should be able to do what you want. I don't ...
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Program to create and "embed" subtitles to a movie
Subtitle files are generally external to the video, although some can be burned directly onto the graphic video display.
For external subtitles, take a look at Subtitle Edit-
Subtitle Edit is a ...
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Speeding up different parts of a video based on how much activity is happening
Motion detection is the sort of thing that OpenCV3 excels at. There are wrappers for the OpenCV library for C++, Python & Java and numerous examples including person detection and motion detection,...
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Software for cutting out something from a frame sequence?
The free video editor Kdenlive for Linux (and Windows) appears to have the ability to accomplish your goal.
A tutorial of sorts, perhaps more a guideline-type entry suggests to use GIMP to create a ...
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Application to make video out of frames with a given frame rate?
Why not use ffmpeg also?
For creating a video from many images:
ffmpeg -framerate 24 -i foo-%03d.jpeg foo.avi
edit: removed the -f image2 format as it is now optional, ffmpeg takes the format as ...
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