hi,
new to video editing here, so on a steep learning curve.
Have a canon 650D and want to upload HD videos to youtube, experiencing problems and 'warnings' about video/audio synchronicity when uploading to youtube.
Have tried
- microsoft movie maker [ok, it was easy to use, windows, free and not very powerful but nice user interface]
- vlc - used gui mode and command line interface.
- ffmpeg - gui mode only so far, looking at commane line interface.
- lightworks.
Currently working on windows 7 platform, also have a ubuntu desktop that I really need to start using again.
I'm leaning towards a system that uses scripts or queueing to shrink the large videos overnight, then do the cutting in a gui environment to pick the right start/end points. microsoft movie maker was nice for this but it seemed to be the cause of mis-matched timing problems. Given my videos are of dance performances, perfect timing is important. [to the extent some professional teachers/performers/artists request their videos not be published if the video editing/youtube cannot get timing right.]
Youtube video guidelines don't help me a lot with choosing the correct settings to use. Mostly because I'm not sure how to choose the correct settings in the package I'm using.
https://support.google.com/youtube/troubleshooter/2888402?hl=en
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en&ref_topic=2888648
My video editing at moment is limited to cutting start & end points, adding a title page at start and a image at end for the events I am filming. Once I get the hang of this will look at more advanced cuts and mixes and whatever effects I feel are desirable. Would be nice to work on correcting exposure / white balance issues but working on improving my selection of camera settings and lighting at the venue.
Any pointers out there for the youtube settings? I read somewhere video bit rate should be limited to 6000 bits/s due to youtube not using higher rates and excess bitrate possibly contributing to errors. A friend mentioned audio/video timing issues would probably be due to mismatched codecs or incompatible codecs with youtube requirements.
I think I really need a good tutorial on explaining the basic settings - would love to hear from someone who has a system working, particularly on the settings required for youtube.
VLC looks like it has some powerful options at command line but documentation on how to use is scarce.
FFMPEG - similar - but still reading up on this.
lightworks - friend reccomended this but I cannot get my camera video files to load.
My camera video files as analysed by 'mediainfo'. Other video settings on the camera will produce lower resolution/different frame rates etc. Pretty sure the output below is the highest video quality possible with this model camera.
MPEG-4 (quuicktime)
video stream AVC
audio stream pcm
overall bit rate 47.0 Mbps
video stream 45.4 Mbps, 1920*1080 2 23.976 fps AVC baseline @L5.0
audio stream 1536Kbps, 48.0Kbps, 16 bits, 2 channels, PCM (little / signed)
I'm leaning towards opensource software but curious about commercial options - if only for ease of use. Featurewise the opensource packages appear to have more features than I need/can-use.
new to video editing here, so on a steep learning curve.
Have a canon 650D and want to upload HD videos to youtube, experiencing problems and 'warnings' about video/audio synchronicity when uploading to youtube.
Have tried
- microsoft movie maker [ok, it was easy to use, windows, free and not very powerful but nice user interface]
- vlc - used gui mode and command line interface.
- ffmpeg - gui mode only so far, looking at commane line interface.
- lightworks.
Currently working on windows 7 platform, also have a ubuntu desktop that I really need to start using again.
I'm leaning towards a system that uses scripts or queueing to shrink the large videos overnight, then do the cutting in a gui environment to pick the right start/end points. microsoft movie maker was nice for this but it seemed to be the cause of mis-matched timing problems. Given my videos are of dance performances, perfect timing is important. [to the extent some professional teachers/performers/artists request their videos not be published if the video editing/youtube cannot get timing right.]
Youtube video guidelines don't help me a lot with choosing the correct settings to use. Mostly because I'm not sure how to choose the correct settings in the package I'm using.
https://support.google.com/youtube/troubleshooter/2888402?hl=en
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en&ref_topic=2888648
My video editing at moment is limited to cutting start & end points, adding a title page at start and a image at end for the events I am filming. Once I get the hang of this will look at more advanced cuts and mixes and whatever effects I feel are desirable. Would be nice to work on correcting exposure / white balance issues but working on improving my selection of camera settings and lighting at the venue.
Any pointers out there for the youtube settings? I read somewhere video bit rate should be limited to 6000 bits/s due to youtube not using higher rates and excess bitrate possibly contributing to errors. A friend mentioned audio/video timing issues would probably be due to mismatched codecs or incompatible codecs with youtube requirements.
I think I really need a good tutorial on explaining the basic settings - would love to hear from someone who has a system working, particularly on the settings required for youtube.
VLC looks like it has some powerful options at command line but documentation on how to use is scarce.
FFMPEG - similar - but still reading up on this.
lightworks - friend reccomended this but I cannot get my camera video files to load.
My camera video files as analysed by 'mediainfo'. Other video settings on the camera will produce lower resolution/different frame rates etc. Pretty sure the output below is the highest video quality possible with this model camera.
MPEG-4 (quuicktime)
video stream AVC
audio stream pcm
overall bit rate 47.0 Mbps
video stream 45.4 Mbps, 1920*1080 2 23.976 fps AVC baseline @L5.0
audio stream 1536Kbps, 48.0Kbps, 16 bits, 2 channels, PCM (little / signed)
I'm leaning towards opensource software but curious about commercial options - if only for ease of use. Featurewise the opensource packages appear to have more features than I need/can-use.