On 06/13/2017 07:05 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The problem with avidemux is that it does only one sound track. I need two, because movies in Spain come dubbed to Spanish, but usually also contain the original sound track. Naturally I want to keep both.
Agreed, Felix: cinelerra can handle as many video and audio tracks as you like in its A/B storyboard editor. You can have 10 sound tracks if you like simultaneously with the various tracks fading it/out and playing on top of one another. It is an incredibly powerful editor. You can do just about everything you need very efficiently from the keyboard as all normal functions are mapped in a semi-logical way to the keyboard (in a manner similar to Vim or Emacs -- which also implies a that level of learning to fully master it) That said, the UI is also a point and click mouseable interface as well. If you haven't used it yet, read through a tutorial and learn how clips are handled (your resources) and get a feel for the A/B storyboard editing approach it provides. Give a minimum an hour of learning and by that point you should have made friends with the interface, be able to create your clip resources, know how to lay them out on the storyboard, and know where to look for help to tweak the transitions, fade audio in/out, and the rest of what is under the hood. You simply cannot go wrong with cinerella. You can do StarWars quality video creation with the tool, then it's just a matter of spending another 1/2 hour or so when you are ready to render you video to re-learn all the ffmpeg option, video targets, etc... The only thing I've ever had an issue with is Video and Audio being offset just a fraction of a second so the video looked like an old Godzilla movie. That's not a problem with cineralla, purely operator inexperience, since the audio and video are rendered as separate tracks before they are combined for the final encoded video. (cinelerra has this neat 'bump' feature that lets you adjust the audio sync to fix it) It's involved, but using anything else or cinelerra is like using jot or vim/emacs. There is just no fair comparison. (however, the time to learn jot compared to vim/emacs is a fair analogy...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.