I'm really only familiar with commercial software. But Freemake is a good free program for making edits and Rendering out clips.
> I need to edit some f4v files into smaller files. > If support outside Adobeland for that particular container is better on the import then export side, then there would be more options if the smaller files output files don't need to be f4v. Also, a slightly more tricky (but still do-able) problem if you're trying to avoid decoding and re-encoding of the underlying MPEG-4 stream. Narrows choice of tool for sure. I'm enough of a perfectionist that I'd want to pull off both switching to a new MPEG-4 container and avoid re-encoding. Such magic has been known to happen in my hands with VLC as a front-end tool sometimes, though you'll have to pin me down... Even though they're patent encumbered, I'm glad we've at least gotten to a world now where the encoding/decoding schemes are mostly known and standardized and where the outer level container formats holding them are the largest source of pain. Mark p.s. Anyone remember Real Player? I remember the days, where Real Player was the only way to play certain secret formats. Long before YouTube and "podcasting" existed, I was growing up as a teenager on a Real Player only diet of: http://www.2600.com/offthehook/ and DEFCON.org Not having a portable music player until senior year (64 megabyte capacity Nomad, was mp3 only anyway), I remember doing transfers of Off The Hook to cassette tapes to take along for long high school bus trips to the Banff Music Fest. "And you're listening to WBAI in New York, its time for /Off The Hook/" _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
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