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Fri, Jan. 11th, 2013, 09:40 am
Free For A Limited Time -- VideoMeld for Windows 7 & 8

The nice folks at GoldWave have a brand new audio/video editing program, VideoMeld. They've released a 1.0 version which is Free For A Very Limited Time Only. While this is often a fancy-schmancy way of saying Still In Beta Ha Ha Ha, it seems to have a lot of potential.

Any cool freebies we should know about?

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Fri, Jan. 11th, 2013 03:08 pm (UTC)
shockwave77598

I'm very surprised they still have audio/video Sync problems. The solution of creating an uncompressed PCM file in disc cache and using that instead is well known and eliminates the problem completely. We used to have to do it ourselves manually with Audacity, but almost every program does it transparently to the user now.
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Fri, Jan. 11th, 2013 03:44 pm (UTC)
filkertom

Mm. It's apparently only a problem with Variable Bit Rate (VBR) files, but you're right -- it shouldn't be a problem at all at this late date. Unless it's trying to maintain the integrity of every single file in its timeline, which it may be trying to do but I'm not sure is worth it here.
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Fri, Jan. 11th, 2013 04:25 pm (UTC)
shockwave77598

While it's not a free program, Corel's Video Studio is what I use. One, you get multiple tracks of audio and video, and can even have video inserts and bluescreens with it. And most importantly for when you work with HD sources, all the transcoding makes use of your computers graphic card to do the incredible amount of compressing/decompressing. So the computer doesn't have to spend an hour generating hugenormous uncompressed video files on your hard drive for you to be able to edit them anymore -- it uses the GPU and you work with the files in their native format as if they were cached uncompressed stuff. I went from a core2duo rendering 1 hour of HD video in 10 hours of uninterrupted time (I just went to bed), to rendering an hour of HD video in 12 minutes.

Not bad at all for 50$.
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