video editing freeware?

[eve11]

hey flist, I need some software for cutting/pasting video. I want to upload a vid to youtube but it is over 10minutes and I want to cut it into 2 pieces. Any suggestions or trustworthy sites you guys know about?

ETA: hey, apparently I have something called Windows movie maker which should work...
EATA: Oh wait, these are MP4's and apparently aren't supported in moviemaker. Bah.

Comments

[rydain]

I'm not up to date with the latest greatest free video editors, but I used Virtual Dub a couple of years back to split up one of my videos. It worked well enough for my purposes.

[eve11]

Ah, I appear to have something called Windows Movie Maker on my computer... would that work?

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

I can't remember - mac or pc?

[eve11]

PC. can't get past the one button in macs...

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. (although if that is actually the only thing stopping you, multi-button mice work like they should when plugged into a Mac, and you can right click by holding down the ctrl key).

Just asking cause I can probably help with Mac but I have no clue about PC video software. Good luck!

[poohmusings.livejournal.com]

I'm using Movie Maker right now to edit a bunch of focus groups down to "sound bite" clips. Movie Maker is actually quite user-friendly -- surprising given it's made by Microsoft. :P

But yeah, as you mention, MM doesn't work with many file types. I had to download a program called Convert VOB to AVI (convertvobtoavi.com) to, y'know, do exactly when the program's called, heh. After converting my vob files to wmv files, it's very easy to import them into MM and edit away.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

mpeg streamclip might work, but I'm not sure if there's a pc version.