all4dom 73 Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Right now I have been using avidemux to edit my recorded content. Lately I'm having some issues & am wondering what are others using. I know.about video redo, but was not looking to pay $100 for it. Any suggestions is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinrh 173 Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Shotcut is open source. It might be helpful for people to know what kind of editing you do. https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/ https://www.lifewire.com/best-free-video-editing-software-programs-4128924 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4dom 73 Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 I'm editing recorded tv shows. I tried shotcut but it was not as avidemux I thought. Plus it was not saving my video as an mkv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 (edited) Depends what you mean by editing? chopping out commercials, or trimming fluff off either end or do you do more than that? Edited June 14, 2021 by PenkethBoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2484 Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 i've got a older version of videoredo that i use if there is lots of chopping to be done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAlGaInTl 279 Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 I've used OpenShot (also open source) for some basic video editing. OpenShot Video Editor | Free, Open, and Award-Winning Video Editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows! I evaluated several free editors, and it was the easiest to use. Davinci Resolve also has a free version... it's extremely powerful, but has a bit steeper learning curve. As others have said... it would be nice to have more info on what kind of editing you are doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4dom 73 Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 I thought I posted above but I'm just editing the commercials out of my tv recordings from emby or cdvr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4328 Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 I still use AVIDemux as it's about the easiest to use to quickly remove all commercials. I have Video Redo as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidmarks 188 Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 MCEBuddy does exactly what you are trying to do. Its been forever since i used it, recall it was hit or miss back then. Might want to see if it is matured since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4dom 73 Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 @cayarsmy problem with avidemux is it cant edit shows that change frame rate. So if a show is 1080 or even 720, on some shows it tells me the frame rate changes to something like 920, & it will not allow me to edit the show. Avidemux is the best out of all of them that I can edit a show in about a minute, but that issue is driving me crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4328 Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 Do you mean resolution? I've never come across a files I can't edit in avidemux. Anyway you could upload one of these shows somewhere to let me take a look at one of them? Cable or OTA show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generiq 109 Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maisy 35 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 I use Avidemux to trim the ends off of certain shows. I was cutting commercials myself, but found that with everything I'm saving it was just not what I wanted to do. So I added MCEBuddy to process everything to remove commercials and save as mkv. So Avidemux to trim ends and copy, certain things, and that fed to MCEBuddy, and all the other stuff to MCEBuddy too. If I do cut commercials myself then I use MKVToolNix to put it together. (Just what I do.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4328 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 I do it the opposite @Maisy. I'll run recordings through MCEBuddy to cut the commercials with no other processing done. Then I cut front/end off using AVIdemux and quickly scroll through to make sure it didn't miss any commercials which is sometimes does. Then after saving it I run it through my pipeline which adds a 2 channel AAC audio channel, removes non-English audio unless it's the only track and converts the video to HEVC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maisy 35 Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) That sounds good too! Especially since yeah, commercials can be missed. I know I can't quite make this stuff look like it came from a disc rip but I may end up changing around eventually to control it all the more. I am always open to improving, as it is, I have MCEBuddy doing all the processing (commercials+HEVC+mkv) and besides snippets of commercials left, it pretty good. I don't watch a lot of it yet, so once I do more of that, it's gonna push me to do something different no doubt. (I'm collecting old shows to binge watch) Edited June 16, 2021 by Maisy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4dom 73 Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 I never used mcebuddy. I was always able to skim through a show editing put everything in about a min. So i never minded doing my shows by hand instead of automating it through mcebuddy. I use channels for my m3u tunners & it does a pretty decent job of editing out commercials, but the problem is it didn't save to the file. If emby could do something like that then that would be a big plus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gungatim 8 Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 For DVR recorded content I run everything through MCEBuddy. it works about 80% of the time. it depends on which channel and format it was originally recorded in, and of course signal strength. the big main networks work good, the older shows in 4:3 format on some channels is where I have trouble. the ones that don't work I do by hand. for those shows that MCEBuddy doesn't work for or for recorded movies off tubi or other free apps with commercials using a clonerbox, I use MP4-Cloner software. you can do multi-trim, regular trim, combine, and it also burns dvd's and iso files better than anything i've found. it is free if you buy an HDML cloner box for recording anything from HDMI (like firestick) and you get like 6 licenses for free, You can buy it outright as well. https://www.cloner-alliance.com/mp4-cloner/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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