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Can anyone recommend a good (and free) video editor for windows?
My main concerns are:
* sync two videos with sounds: I would like to record with two cameras and interweave the video images, but keep the sound "running" continuously.
* add/overlay multiple titles and or images
* sufficient HD output (probably standard nowadays)
It's for (basic) vlogging.
thanks!
PS: You can, of course, find many "the best 10 free video editors" on google, but nothing beats real experience, hence I ask the question here 
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Avidemux[^] is basic, but full featured and very quick - it also uses your graphics card if it can so it can really fly on some operations. Never got it to adjust audio timing though, so I tend to use it for video assembly, and add the audio track on later.
FFMPEG[^] is damn good at combining sources, and altering timings - but it's command line driven and not for the faint hearted (it's ... um ... not obvious what to type. It's also very good at splitting audio and video into separate files so you can process them in something more friendly.
Audacity[^] is good at anything to do with audio.
I tend to split with FFMPEG, edit with Audacity and Avidemux, then combine again with FFFMPEG.
I have tried several "all in one" packages, like Corel Videostudio but I end up frustrated and bemused mostly because I'm unwilling to sit through six hour videos in order to resync an audio track by 0.3 seconds ... And they have all been a lot, lot slower to process a video than the above!
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I've never done what you're specifically trying to do, but I've used ShotCut and HandBrake for similar-ish things, so it might be an idea to have a look at their docs/search for user comments.
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The thing I didn't like about HandBrake was that there didn't seem to be a way of copying streams: every time you did something it was re-encoded. And that lost quality and sharpness each time.
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Controlling quality in most video editors can be fiddly, but HandBrake does take that to a new level, true.
The first few times I used it, I had to spend a lot of time with a search engine, just to figure out what half the parameters were; and I still have to "revise" whenever I install it on a new machine, where I haven't already done custom settings (I should look for the files they're stored in, to export them, I know, but I'm really lazy for doing things like that, because it often causes other problems).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's why I use Avidemux - it does as much as possible by stream copying, so there is no encoding and quality doesn't get affected. Also means combining multiple videos into one file takes seconds rather than minutes.
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The best free one is Lightworks (but in it's free version it gets a max output of 720p).
I'm using VSDC to edit the company videos and I'm super happy with it... free, easy and powerful.
Hope this helps.
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Some good suggestions already given. AviDemux should sort you out.
Openshot might be worth a try as well, but the encoding process is slow.
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I always use the "old" ( = the one that came with windows vista ) Windows Movie Maker, but it is very hard to find, since replaced by a sh*tty newer version in Microsoft Essentials. If you are not after something that you will need more than one time, it is the best choice (IMO) -> It is free, very easy to use and fulfills all your requirements.
Blaine's Movie Maker Blog: WMM 6.0 on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10[^]
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Me too. 
/ravi
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I use movie maker, it's easy for some simple stuff, but it can't do (to my knowledge) some stuff I like to do.
But thanks for the tip 
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I use Windows Movie Maker for this. See this[^] example. The jerky video in the first half is the fault of my camera, not WMM.
/ravi
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I have that mental picture of you now, by night, on your sofa, with a gin fizz, random watching your video recorded road trips with that jazz music in the background. 
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/ravi
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I use movie maker, it's easy for some simple stuff, but it can't do (to my knowledge) some stuff I like to do.
But thanks for the tip
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Already today: a web developer who says he has no idea how to use cookies or the session but is developing a "five pages of user input web app"; and an intern who wants a video to show him how to put checkboxes on a panel ... all eleven of them. 
Is it my imagination or are they getting dumber and dumber?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's what happens when you get impatient and harvest them too soon! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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This is what happens when we include the world into what we do here. These "web developers" you speak of, will not be here next year. You either have it, or you don't. You can't fake the funk.
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Slacker007 wrote: You can't fake the funk
Nice  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Slacker007 wrote: hese "web developers" you speak of, will not be here next year.
OH! How I wish it were so!
But, alas, as long as businesses keep outsourcing because they think it will save money (and thus increase profits) these living mishaps will earn a living.
I've seen this happen, and pathetically, watched the bosses repeat the process. Hoping they get lucky each time?
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But, alas, as long as businesses keep outsourcing because they think it will save money (and thus increase profits) these living mishaps will "earn" a living.
FIFY.
Freedom? That is a worship word.
-- Cloud William
The only thing a free man can be forced to do is die.
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I'd say you have have a recruitment problem. In my recent jobs it has happened often like we get a new guy and after a week I notice: wow this is a really smart guy.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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megaadam wrote: ...after a week I notice: wow this is a really smart guy.
He somehow managed to get a cool job at really high wages without being remotely competent???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Sadly it happens more often than you think.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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