Video Editing

[billbenson]

I bought a camera (gopro hero black plus) to make slow motion and stills out of a full speed video. It comes with a very simple program for doing the slow motion. That also results in very large files. I have a two minute slow motion video that is 1Mb. I have never played with video before.

My two immediate needs are:

- file size reduction

- making a mirror image video

Ideally I'm looking for a very simple program that will do this. As I get more knowledgeable I'm sure I'll want other features.

Does anybody have any software recommendations. Either Windows or Open Source for Linux.

[Freelancier]

For my video camera conversions, I've used avs4you.com for a while. It's a weird license, though: it's tied to your machine and if your machine dies, you have to beg to get -- or break down and buy -- a new license. But the price is excellent for the set of features you get.

[vangogh]

The only video editing program I'm familiar with on Windows is Camtasia Studio (http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html). One of it's main features is being able to record what's on your screen and it may cost more than you want to spend, but I know people who use it are very happy with it. I think it should be able to do what you want.

Adobe Premiere is another (guess I know 2), but it's part of creative cloud now so you can only rent it from Adobe.

I found cinelerra-cv (http://cinelerra.org/) for Linux. The name sounds familiar to me, but that's all I can tell you about it. The price is right.

[billbenson]

Ya I was hunting around last night and came across cinelerra. It seems to do a lot but I haven't confirmed that it will do the mirror image. I think I'll have to just install it and see if I can find the command.