[Shroud]

This is quite off-topic wrt. Rock Band, but since we’re a generally multimedia-oriented community, I thought I’d ask you ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

 

I have some video footage of my old band rehearsing, but it’s one single giant video file. I would like to cut the video file into smaller parts, to isolate single songs from the fumbles and the rest where we’re just chatting around.

 

Optionally, I would also like to compress the resulting video files if they are still too big, and to extract the audio only from them.

 

This is a one-time task, so I don’t feel like buying a software product just for that, and I am looking at the simplest possible freeware/shareware/demo solution for Windows here, I don’t need advanced or fancy video editing features of any sort, just very basic editing. It’s ok if it comes with a GUI but even a command-line-based tool will suffice.

 

What software would you recommend? I prefer open-source over anything else for safety reasons (i.e. less risk of malware or adware). Thanks!

[chaosjaye]

i do all my vid stuff with wondershare. super easy to learn

[Shroud]

First thing that comes up when googling for it isn’t very promising… https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/wondershare.com

[Alternity]

I use Shotcut. It’s free and works pretty well for my cutting needs. I don’t know if Shotcut supports rendering audio only, but if not I am fairly confident that ffmpeg can do that.

https://ffmpeg.org/

https://shotcut.org/

[lifeismusic5]

most of the best ones are paid subscriptions unfortunately, I agree Shotcut is the best for simple edits. There’s another but it’s not very simplistic, hell I couldn’t even figure it out haha.

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