[Shop-talk] Video editing help

[Donald H Locker]

kdenlive is the video editor I remember. It's been a while, but it worked well; I expect it's better now.

https://kdenlive.org/en/ is useful; download available for Windows, Mac, and Linux

HTH,
Donald.

On 11/20/22 07:02, eric at megageek.com wrote:

> I know this isn't 100% shop talk related, but stick with me.
>
> I am an instructor in the Army and I often have to use clips from movies and other video training aids.
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> Problem is, many of these 2 or 3 minute clips are embedding in 1 or 2 hour videos. Meaning I spend lots of time finding the actually beginning of a clip and such.
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> Also, now that we are doing more virtual training, I would love to be able to send out the videos so students can watch them locally, but I can't send 1 gig files.
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> I am looking for a video editor that can 'crop' videos files. These are often compressed files (.mp4) so I understand that I may have to have some 'extra' footage that the beginning, and that is fine.
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> But what I see is often I have to wait for the entire play length to save the cropped file.
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> Is there an editor out that that can quickly and easily crop video files? Bonus if it's free.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Moose
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