Video-Editing Programs

Ive been recording a number of streams lately and rather than converting the flv's that night like some members here I usually just label them and put them in a folder. And with gigs upon gigs of videos, I now need to sort through them all and convert them.

Basically, what are the programs you guys use to convert/edit/trim/crop etc. your flv/mp4's? Any program you use from when you record the stream to when you finally upload it here. Feel free to list any program whether it be free or not.

(16-04-2012 22:31 )oklahoma001 Wrote:  Ive been recording a number of streams lately and rather than converting the flv's that night like some members here I usually just label them and put them in a folder. And with gigs upon gigs of videos, I now need to sort through them all and convert them.

Basically, what are the programs you guys use to convert/edit/trim/crop etc. your flv/mp4's? Any program you use from when you record the stream to when you finally upload it here. Feel free to list any program whether it be free or not.

I use virtualdub (free) to edit, you can only use avi with it though so i convert the flv first with avs video converter (not free).

Thanks for the suggestions. I use to use virtualdub/mod a lot but with everyone seemingly moving to mp4 lately I havent bothered with it much. I'll take a look at avsvideconverter.

Ive only started playing around with ffmpeg the past couple days. Its great but I dont know if its possible to set up a queue of conversions and just let it run. That would be great since it isnt a memory hog like similar programs.

(17-04-2012 17:40 )oklahoma001 Wrote:  Thanks for the suggestions. I use to use virtualdub/mod a lot but with everyone seemingly moving to mp4 lately I havent bothered with it much. I'll take a look at avsvideconverter.

Ive only started playing around with ffmpeg the past couple days. Its great but I dont know if its possible to set up a queue of conversions and just let it run. That would be great since it isnt a memory hog like similar programs.

It would be very easy in linux to write a script to convert multiple files with ffmpeg.
I am no DOS expert, but I believe you could just create a .BAT file which contains a list of the files to convert
e.g

ffmpeg -i yourfilemame1.flv -sameq yourfilemame1.mp4
ffmpeg -i yourfilemame2.flv -sameq yourfilemame2.mp4
ffmpeg -i yourfilemame3.flv -sameq yourfilemame3.mp4
....
....
etc.

and just execute it from a terminal in Windows.
BTW "-sameq" means keep the same quality.
Other options/parameters could obviously be included for ffmpeg as required.
Its bit of a crude method but it should work.

If you are using Windows then there are a few worth looking at and trying. In my experience, the best apps are those that are front-ends to some low-level encoder like ffmpeg or mencoder. Some of the other apps are much more user friendly, but sometimes the end result is not as good, and you don't have as much control over the encoding process to try to improve it.

I used to use avidemux for most of my vids. With a bit of work, once you have the default settings you want to use, you can turn them into a script which can be saved and turned into a menu option, just choose it next time and all the same settings are applied. You can also create a list of vids to work on and let it run through that list.
It's also good for encoding just part of the input video. I often used to do one continuous recording of a channel, then use avidemux to output separate files for each girls session, and it will even split the recordings into smaller pieces for easier posting on your file hosting site if required.

Recently I am favouring MeGUI instead. It doesn't always work with some videos, but when it does it seems to produce a slightly better result than avidemux, and I don't get as many syncing issues with sound. I use the one-click encoding option and add vids to the job queue for it to work on in batch.
I used the most recent version a while back and had a major issue with it only outputting in mkv format, I just couldn't switch it for some reason, but I had an older version setup just how I wanted it, with a default output of xvid/avi, and I updated that, and it still works fine, so maybe it was me, maybe not, I don't know.


Another worthy mention is SUPER from http://www.erightsoft.com It's not the most elegant looking app, nor the most user friendly, but once you get used to it, it's actually pretty good at doing its thing. Like MeGUI, it doesn't always work if there is some slight issue with the input video file, but when it works it works pretty well, and not as slow as some others. It uses both ffmpeg and mencoder, and sometimes one will do a better job than the other, and you can also use directshow drivers or not which may improve the output.

Thanks ill give the bat files a try.
And Ive got MeGui already on my computer along with a dozen other programs i havent familiarized myself with. Same as Munch avidemux would give me sync issues if I edited the flv. The audio would increasingly get out of sync which bothers me to no end. Im also not 100% sure if its my computer or not. Either way Ill test out MeGui as well. Ive been using xmediarecode lately for my RLC vids which has been going fairly well. I used another program called vidcoder, but for whatever reason it encodes Elite fine but leaves my RLC vids with a green screen. So that ones in the dumps. Hopefully your recommendations will be better.

(17-04-2012 18:55 )TheWatcher Wrote:  

(17-04-2012 17:40 )oklahoma001 Wrote:  Thanks for the suggestions. I use to use virtualdub/mod a lot but with everyone seemingly moving to mp4 lately I havent bothered with it much. I'll take a look at avsvideconverter.

Ive only started playing around with ffmpeg the past couple days. Its great but I dont know if its possible to set up a queue of conversions and just let it run. That would be great since it isnt a memory hog like similar programs.

It would be very easy in linux to write a script to convert multiple files with ffmpeg.
I am no DOS expert, but I believe you could just create a .BAT file which contains a list of the files to convert
e.g

ffmpeg -i yourfilemame1.flv -sameq yourfilemame1.mp4
ffmpeg -i yourfilemame2.flv -sameq yourfilemame2.mp4
ffmpeg -i yourfilemame3.flv -sameq yourfilemame3.mp4
....
....
etc.

and just execute it from a terminal in Windows.
BTW "-sameq" means keep the same quality.
Other options/parameters could obviously be included for ffmpeg as required.
Its bit of a crude method but it should work.

I think I missed something from the above batch file info.
It may be necessary to add "start /wait" infront of each ffmpeg command in order for a new conversion to wait until the previous one has finished.
e.g.
start /wait ffmpeg -i yourfilemame1.flv -sameq yourfilemame1.mp4
etc.

^Yup that worked perfectly. I just recorded 30 seconds of each RLC stream, ran the .bat and they all converted right after each other. I'l try it again later this week with larger files and hope to avoid any sync issues. I only ever get audio issues with Elite anyway and thankfully there are a few members who take care of those streams already.