What do you use to edit your track videos?

M3to335 · 02-19-2009, 07:20 PM

I have hours of footage but only want to pull out a few laps here and there to put on YouTube. Whats a good free program I can use to edit these? If I remember correctly, last time I used windows movie maker and it wasnt that great.

Thanks

satakal · 02-19-2009, 07:23 PM

all my video is right off the point-and-shoot Samsung nv10. I tried movie maker and it crashed on me.

M3to335 · 02-19-2009, 07:38 PM

that doesnt help

blipblip · 02-20-2009, 02:09 PM

Apple's iMovie HD or Final Cut Express/Pro

They ain't free though...

mike-y · 02-20-2009, 02:26 PM

I've used windows movie maker for track vids. Never crashed on me though. It also separates your footage in scenes during the capture which is convenient. if you're just cutting together video for youtube, I don't see why you'd need anything more than WMM.

excuse the soundtrack. my camera caught a lot of wind noise, and I didn't realize it had a "wind cut" setting until recently.

S4to335 · 02-20-2009, 02:28 PM

I am trying to figure that out..what you see is actual full videos on me...where the camera breaks up the file when converted all by itself.

mike-y · 02-20-2009, 03:07 PM

You just use sliders on the preview pane to mark a section of video with a "start" and a "stop" point for the clip you want to use. Then you just drag it to the timeline, and it only inserts the section between the markers. At least according what I can remember right now.

M3to335 · 02-20-2009, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by mike-y

I've used windows movie maker for track vids. Never crashed on me though. It also separates your footage in scenes during the capture which is convenient. if you're just cutting together video for youtube, I don't see why you'd need anything more than WMM.

excuse the soundtrack. my camera caught a lot of wind noise, and I didn't realize it had a "wind cut" setting until recently.

That made me laugh...I thought my iPhone was jacked up because it looked like it was playing in slow motion. Then, I realized you were in a civic!

MWP won't read this 3 gig track file for some reason. It read smaller files off this camera no problem.

mike-y · 02-20-2009, 05:18 PM

haha yep, I'm not going to win any drag races in that car (as evident by the black corvette leaving me in the dust on the front straight). It goes pretty good otherwise though. My best time in that config at BW is a 2:07

Oh yeah, to split your video files into smaller chunks, try this: http://www.doeasier.org/splitter/

jbass524 · 02-20-2009, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by M3to335

That made me laugh...I thought my iPhone was jacked up because it looked like it was playing in slow motion. Then, I realized you were in a civic!

This has to be one of the funniest things I've read on the forum.

I hope OP is OK with it.

mike-y · 02-20-2009, 09:15 PM

oh yeah, I have no problems with that. the car IS just a civic, I know that. But it actually does pretty well for what it is, and surprises a lot of people.

M3to335 · 02-21-2009, 06:42 AM

I was just joking around with him. Actually one of the head instructors has a CRX that will rock most cars out there. Granted it gets lost in the straights but it handles the curves better than I could ever do.

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mike-y just another bmw douche bag 195 Rep 3,640 Posts Drives: 1.9L of fury Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Los Angeles, CA iTrader: (4)	I've used windows movie maker for track vids. Never crashed on me though. It also separates your footage in scenes during the capture which is convenient. if you're just cutting together video for youtube, I don't see why you'd need anything more than WMM. excuse the soundtrack. my camera caught a lot of wind noise, and I didn't realize it had a "wind cut" setting until recently.
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mike-y just another bmw douche bag 195 Rep 3,640 Posts Drives: 1.9L of fury Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Los Angeles, CA iTrader: (4)	You just use sliders on the preview pane to mark a section of video with a "start" and a "stop" point for the clip you want to use. Then you just drag it to the timeline, and it only inserts the section between the markers. At least according what I can remember right now.
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mike-y just another bmw douche bag 195 Rep 3,640 Posts Drives: 1.9L of fury Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Los Angeles, CA iTrader: (4)	haha yep, I'm not going to win any drag races in that car (as evident by the black corvette leaving me in the dust on the front straight). It goes pretty good otherwise though. My best time in that config at BW is a 2:07 Oh yeah, to split your video files into smaller chunks, try this: http://www.doeasier.org/splitter/
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M3to335 Whats that smell? 145 Rep 1,790 Posts Drives: Bimmers, duh Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: NC iTrader: (6)	I was just joking around with him. Actually one of the head instructors has a CRX that will rock most cars out there. Granted it gets lost in the straights but it handles the curves better than I could ever do.
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