Quicktime Pro as a video editor
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Quicktime Pro as a video editor
I was looking for an inexpensive bare-bones video editor. The ones I found either couldn't handle 1280x720 or they degraded my image quality pretty severely.
Its editing paradigm is strictly linear, but for $30 Quicktime Pro let me stitch together a series of short .MOV files, with audio, then add a background soundtrack under the whole thing. That was all I needed. Unlike the "real" video editors I tried, Quicktime Pro seemed to be merely combining digital files, resulting in no degradation of image quality at all.
EDIT: Here's a screen capture comparison of my attempt at getting a high quality .mov file using the trial version of Cyberlink Power Director 8, versus the smaller file size and sharper output of Quicktime Pro.
I did lose a little quality later, doing a smaller-file-size export for upload to YouTube, but it still looked a lot better than the output of other low-end video editing software I tried.
Its editing paradigm is strictly linear, but for $30 Quicktime Pro let me stitch together a series of short .MOV files, with audio, then add a background soundtrack under the whole thing. That was all I needed. Unlike the "real" video editors I tried, Quicktime Pro seemed to be merely combining digital files, resulting in no degradation of image quality at all.
EDIT: Here's a screen capture comparison of my attempt at getting a high quality .mov file using the trial version of Cyberlink Power Director 8, versus the smaller file size and sharper output of Quicktime Pro.
I did lose a little quality later, doing a smaller-file-size export for upload to YouTube, but it still looked a lot better than the output of other low-end video editing software I tried.
Last edited by Steverino on Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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why you don't try sony vegas movie studio ?
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegassoftware
I have vegas movie studio platinum, and is really cool, you have different options, but, for me, vegas movie studio, is the best and cheap....
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegassoftware
I have vegas movie studio platinum, and is really cool, you have different options, but, for me, vegas movie studio, is the best and cheap....
i surprised with anime studio
I'm curious about how what editing software was degrading your files?
Which software were you using?
http://tv.isg.si/site/?q=node/873
list of some free editing software.
Which software were you using?
http://tv.isg.si/site/?q=node/873
list of some free editing software.
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this one is free, I thin this is better for editing than quicktime
http://www.virtualdub.org/
or Free Video Editing Software for Windows:
http://jaypeeonline.net/freeware/free-v ... e-windows/
http://www.virtualdub.org/
or Free Video Editing Software for Windows:
http://jaypeeonline.net/freeware/free-v ... e-windows/
i surprised with anime studio
The main issue was blurriness and compression artifacts. Other discoveries:
Windows Movie Maker, the one that came with XP -- For 16:9, it couldn't save 1280x720, only 856x480. Being a Microsoft product, naturally it wouldn't load Quicktime files, and .avi files seem blurrier to me than .mov straight out of ASP.
Avid Free DV -- no longer freeware.
Avidemux -- I couldn't play anything it saved.
Videopad -- couldn't handle 1280x720, though I have liked it in the past for 640x480 work.
Wax -- seems to be for effects not editing.
Virtualdub -- Like Wax, I keep seeing this on lists of freeware video editors, but its own homepage describes it as an AVI-only video capture/processing utility. Do you actually edit with this, themonster?
When I found the Quicktime Pro solution, I had also tested one commercial trial version, Power Director 8, and its web output at a high quality setting was also blurry from too much compression, not much better than Windows Movie Maker.
There are also some new online video editing solutions,
http://savedelete.com/10-best-and-free- ... tware.html
but there's something creepy about corporations wanting to paw through people's unedited video, so I didn't try any of these.
Windows Movie Maker, the one that came with XP -- For 16:9, it couldn't save 1280x720, only 856x480. Being a Microsoft product, naturally it wouldn't load Quicktime files, and .avi files seem blurrier to me than .mov straight out of ASP.
Avid Free DV -- no longer freeware.
Avidemux -- I couldn't play anything it saved.
Videopad -- couldn't handle 1280x720, though I have liked it in the past for 640x480 work.
Wax -- seems to be for effects not editing.
Virtualdub -- Like Wax, I keep seeing this on lists of freeware video editors, but its own homepage describes it as an AVI-only video capture/processing utility. Do you actually edit with this, themonster?
When I found the Quicktime Pro solution, I had also tested one commercial trial version, Power Director 8, and its web output at a high quality setting was also blurry from too much compression, not much better than Windows Movie Maker.
There are also some new online video editing solutions,
http://savedelete.com/10-best-and-free- ... tware.html
but there's something creepy about corporations wanting to paw through people's unedited video, so I didn't try any of these.
You can get 1280 x 720 on Windows XP, search for WMV-HD-1280x720.prx. Download it and drop it into C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\Profiles.
It good for 720p HD. All my videos since Feb have been made in Windows Movie maker using this add on. Take a look at a few of my videos that have HD. I simply save uncompressed from AS as AVI, edit it in WMM and save using the add on I downloaded.
It may not be the quality you are looking for but it works for me. Good luck finding a solution.
It good for 720p HD. All my videos since Feb have been made in Windows Movie maker using this add on. Take a look at a few of my videos that have HD. I simply save uncompressed from AS as AVI, edit it in WMM and save using the add on I downloaded.
It may not be the quality you are looking for but it works for me. Good luck finding a solution.
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Okay I some questions
I seem to be not finding the magic render setting. I am trying out sony I get lousy renders. What is the best way to export a render in ASP 7 so that I can use it in sony vegas and get good renders?