Editing and stitching software

[Nytrunner]

I've been sing AviDemux to trim my 808 videos and converting to mp4 for YouTube.

What I'm wondering is if there are free software programs out there that will allow me to stitch two AVI files together or add a cellphone/gopro video to it for a single upload. I'm tired of finding programs that sound free, but are really just free trials with giant watermarks on them umess you buy.

Not trying to dash ware or anything fancy yet. Any suggestions?

 

[tim cubbedge]

I gave up looking for free software last year & bit the bullet. I ended up buying Movie Studio 14.0. Slight learning curve but can easily stitch movies together. It was $35.

 

[jlabrasca]

... free software programs out there that will allow me to stitch two AVI files together or add a cellphone/gopro video to it for a single upload...

You just want to combine/concatenate clips into a single file?

https://www.ffmpeg.org

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate

https://www.linglom.com/multimedia/combine-mp4-files-using-ffmpeg-windows-without-re-encoding/

 

[Nytrunner]

I gave up looking for free software last year & bit the bullet. I ended up buying Movie Studio 14.0. Slight learning curve but can easily stitch movies together. It was $35.

I'm sure I'll get there eventually, for now I just want to try and add flight line video from a cellphone or GoPro to the onboard video.

You just want to combine/concatenate clips into a single file?

That's a start, thanks! Does that only work for natively similar videos? (AVI to AVI)

 

[jlabrasca]

That's a start, thanks! Does that only work for natively similar videos? (AVI to AVI)

This link will take you to instructions for combining clips with different codecs

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate#differentcodec

VideoLAN will also do it

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Merge_videos_together/

Because the various codecs and wrapper formats are licensed and proprietary, it is not really practical for a developer to publish a complete "free to use" video editor. There are, however, some pretty good OpenSource options and you can license the codecs individually.

kdenlive -- for instance -- is built on top of ffmpeg, and adds timeline editing, color grading, and compositing.

https://kdenlive.org/en/features/

edit: fixed the ffmpeg wiki URL to link directly to the section of concatenating files with different codecs.

 

[plugger]

I've been sing AviDemux to trim my 808 videos and converting to mp4 for YouTube.

What I'm wondering is if there are free software programs out there that will allow me to stitch two AVI files together or add a cellphone/gopro video to it for a single upload. I'm tired of finding programs that sound free, but are really just free trials with giant watermarks on them umess you buy.

Not trying to dash ware or anything fancy yet. Any suggestions?

I use OpenShot and it can do everything you're after. It's free (GPL), cross platform, and not too hard to learn given the price.

https://www.openshot.org/

 

[SpaceManMat]

For quick and easy I use the free MS Movie Maker, I think this will do what want.
For the more tricky stuf I use VSDC. There is a free version that has some limitations on more complicated features, but you can get around this with a bit of extra work for the most part.

 

[tim cubbedge]

For quick and easy I use the free MS Movie Maker, I think this will do what want.

Unfortunately Movie Maker is no longer available on PCs.