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I'm thinking about starting an HD project. Up until now I've pretty much worked with Womble MPEG Video Wizard or complicated avisynth scripts.
I was thinking about Premier, but my PC is pretty out of date so I'd need an old version. I saw someone recommending VSDC Free Video Editor as a preference for older PCs.
Anyone familiar with it and have an opinion? I'm open to other suggestions. My PC is a cobbled together thing still running Win7.
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The best no frills free software is Shotcut. That’s what I use on my super old pc for my videos. It’s basic but has a lot of features and best of all doesn’t limit your exports.
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2022-08-08, 12:48 PM
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Shotcut or Shortcut?
Edit: Okay, apparently SHOTcut is the name of a free video editor.
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Edit: Long story short, not good software for editing outside of youtube videos.
If you're restoring and need to deal with full movies and frame accurate cuts, this is not good.
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2022-08-31, 11:57 PM
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Okay. After testing a few options, VSDC seems to be best for frame accuracy and not choking my old computer to death.
I am open to better options if there are any.
I didn't realize I knew so little about HD editing. I suppose I need to output to a lossless format (Lagarith(?)) and then send that to an encoder that can do Blu-ray format x264?
Ugh. Anyone have a guide or link to a discussion somewhere for beginner editing?
Btw, what I'm working on is a blu-ray restoration of The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, extended cut.
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Use Davinci Resolve. It's free and very good.