Spackman, Chris wrote: > On 2021/12/21 at 05:13pm, Wols Lists wrote: >> On 21/12/2021 16:07, Spackman, Chris wrote: >>> On 2021/12/20 at 11:17am, William Kenworthy wrote: >>>> Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick edit of >>>> a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice a bit in/out of the middle?) >>> I've not seen anyone mention OpenShot. It is in portage, but masked for >>> some reason. >>> As someone else mentioned, you do have to create a project and then >>> export. Really, though, the "create project, make export choices" is >>> only like an extra minute or two of your time. I usually don't even save >>> the project for just some simple trimming. > >> It may be a minute or two of YOUR time. >> >> For someone who doesn't "DO" video editing, it can easily turn into >> hours of debugging trying to work out what does (or doesn't) work. >> >> Sorry, but you can't assume we're all video whizzes like you ... :-) >> That's why we want something dummy-proof! > Wow, sorry, didn't realize this was such a sore issue. Especially > considering we've already discussed several command line programs in > this thread. > > To export: > > 1. press the red circular "export video" button (or go to File => > Export Project => Export Video); > > 2a. [optional] change the name of the video in the export window that > pops up; > > 2b. press the "export video" button at the bottom of the window. Here, > for me, the defaults work fine. > > I did it three times in less than a minute, double checking the accuracy > for this post. So, not a huge inconvenience. > > Of course, if the defaults do NOT work for you, then you do not want > something "dead easy", you want something that will read your mind and > do what you want, somehow, automagically. >
As someone who has experimented with video editing software, I can understand Wols on this. What some of us needs is something similar to 'video editing for dummys' except we need the software not the book. At one time, I wanted to remove like 20 or 30 seconds on the beginning and about the same on the end of a few videos. Hours later, still couldn't figure it out. Heaven forbid I wanted to remove something in the middle as well or add a second or so of black screen. O_O This coming from someone who was able to figure out Kicad and get circuit boards made. Just saying. LOL Dale :-) :-)
