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  • Video Editing
  • fazzini
    Full Member

    Let me preface this by stating I am virtually illiterate when talking technology so please keep this in mind if you reply with advice/help – it needs to be the ‘idiot-guide’ version!!

    Bought a camera for use on the bike – CarCam from 7dayshop – and its OK for what I bought it for – I use it mainly for my daily commute, just in case, having had a number of very near misses and a collision with a bus – sadly no witnesses!

    The camera records in 5 minute segments to the SD card.

    Im wondering if there is a simple way to edit these together so that each journey can be one video clip, rather than 3 or 4 separate clips?

    Any help gratefully received!

    MartynS
    Full Member

    You on a Mac or PC?
    Windows moviemaker would do the job, as would imovie..

    fazzini
    Full Member

    PC – Windows XP

    Cheers

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    AlexSimon
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    You could use the online YouTube editing tools.

    Plucked this tutorial at random – there may be better ones

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ypVoN4NVM[/video]

    stilltortoise
    Free Member

    Movie Maker on XP is a doddle to use. I didn’t like the “upgrade” on Windows 7.

    fazzini
    Full Member

    Thanks for the advice!!

    plumber
    Free Member

    movie make will be fine for what you need

    fazzini
    Full Member

    OK. So with me nothing is ever that easy…..haha

    Movie maker seems really simple to use, but every time I try to import a file it ‘encounters a problem and needs to shutdown’.

    I did try uploading one file onto my YouTube/Google account, but this was telling me that for 1 5 minute file it would take 351 minutes to complete. Given that I didn’t have the thick end of 6 hours spare I cancelled and gave up.

    Any advice please?

    hazza123
    Free Member

    @fazzini, that used to happen with mine (windows 8 though), try right clicking the icon for moviemaker to bring up the menu’s. Try find the option which says ‘run in compatibility mode’. Worked for me, might be worth a shot as i no longer have this problem now.

    fazzini
    Full Member

    Cheers hazza123 I’ll give that a go.

    fazzini
    Full Member

    On another note, does it take so long to upload even one 5 minute file onto YouTube because of my pathetic broadband connection speed? oh how I wish for fibre optic like once before!!!

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    Your likely upload speed is 300-400kbps (easily checked online) so about 20 seconds per MegaByte.

    So if your clip is about 100Mb it should only take half an hour.

    DezB
    Free Member

    I use this freeware to cut the sections out of the video. Then you should be able to import the clips into Movie Maker

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