Can anyone recommend a FREE video editing package (Windows)

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed May 05, 2010 7:58 am

Want to edit a video that I have downloaded from YouTube.

I have Windows Movie Maker, but it doesn't work properly for me, all the videos have a green tinge to them, in it.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Wed May 05, 2010 8:06 am

hi JazHaz, sorry i can't recommend a free video editor program but do you think the green tinge is coming from the program you've used to download the original video? maybe it's been captured in a format moviemaker doesn't work with happily? anyway i just wanted to say some of the students on our IT courses have used the 'lite' (free) version of save2pc ( w w w save2pc.com ) to download a youtube clip to a wmv file then used that in windows movie maker with good results.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed May 05, 2010 9:05 am

Griff wrote:
hi JazHaz, sorry i can't recommend a free video editor program but do you think the green tinge is coming from the program you've used to download the original video? maybe it's been captured in a format moviemaker doesn't work with happily? anyway i just wanted to say some of the students on our IT courses have used the 'lite' (free) version of save2pc ( w w w save2pc.com ) to download a youtube clip to a wmv file then used that in windows movie maker with good results.

I've managed the download fine, in both .flv and .wmv formats. The latter plays fine in Windows Media Player, so you would think that Windows Movie Maker would be fine. But no!

lfnfan · Post by **lfnfan** » Wed May 05, 2010 9:25 am

you could try Avidemux

Post by **Kaks** » Wed May 05, 2010 2:10 pm

Or you might want to give VirtualDub a try. Bit of a learning curve to it, but you can do a lot of stuff with it!

snork · Post by **snork** » Wed May 05, 2010 8:22 pm

I second VirtualDub.

The easy functions are not that much to learn.

You can get a gazillion of filters for it, and them do require learning, and for me also try and error.
(which is not so much fun on a really slow computer as mine, missing the "real-time-preview")

Changing the hue is a b**** though, to get it correct.
But if it is always the same green tinge, once found you can always load the same filter/settings with the next file.

Plugins, also the one needed to load a wmv file : http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/~fcchandler/

Get avisynth with it, if yo want to learn (and do) even more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualDub
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avisynth

nice list : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vi ... g_software

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed May 05, 2010 8:25 pm

Thanks for the replies. Have downloaded Avidemux, but will also keep in mind VirtualDub.

I don't want to do much more than cropping the video that I've downloaded.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Fri May 07, 2010 4:03 pm

lfnfan wrote:
you could try Avidemux

Avidemux worked nicely for me! Thanks for the suggestion!

Here's the video I editted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfznRLkgmyQ

And yes I'm the bass drummer in the video!

lfnfan · Post by **lfnfan** » Tue May 11, 2010 6:26 pm

glad it worked out for you