I have been dabbling in the video recording, editing and publishing field lately. One of the latest things that I had to get my head around was a black bar problem on YouTube. Depending on the original video that you upload, you may see black bars horizontally or vertically. That’s pretty bad for the viewing [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Tutorials Basic

After discovering how to merge avi movies in VirtualDub I ran into the opposite problem. I had a video that had a playtime of about 60 minutes. The YouTube account I wanted to upload the video to was limited to uploading a maximum of 15 minutes per video. I had to find a way to [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

If you have been following my latest series on the OpenShot Video Editor (Read “Create videos with OpenShot Video Editor“, “Add transitions with OpenShot Video Editor“, and “Add titles to OpenShot Video Editor projects“) then you will have noticed my mention of a bug in animated title feature that plagues Ubuntu. This bug is caused [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Recently I tasked myself to begin creating promotional videos for the ebooks I have written for my publishing company Autumnal Press. These videos needed to be short snippets that could serve to attract attention to the books. Naturally I turned to open source solutions and open source solutions directed me to one very obvious, powerful, [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Nero Video Premium HD offers everything that Nero Vision Xtra offers plus premium features that include Bllu-Ray playback and bonus contents. But what exactly is Nero Vision Xtra then? It is a video editing and movie creation software for the Windows operating system. The focux of Nero Video Premium HD lies on high definition, which [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Day eleven of the Ghacks Giveaway. We handed lots of popular software out there in the last ten days including Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, ConvertXtoDVD or The Bat. Today’s giveaway is about Cyberlink software, to be precise about three different Cyberlink products. We are giving away two PowerDVD 8 Ultra, two PowerDirector 7 Ultra and [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Most video editing programs are rather complex and it takes a while until one is able to work with the video editing software without the fear of doing something wrong or missing a crucial step in the editing process. This is a huge problem for amateurs who would like to cut a video that they created without having to learn a complex software. There is however a possibility for them. Jumpcut is a online video editing website that lets you upload videos from your computer and edit them online on their website.

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Not many free or open source video editing software suits exist and many people rely on commercial programs like Adobe Premiere to transfer videos from a camcorder for instance and edit / convert the video. Jahshaka is a open source video editing program that offers its users a huge functionality that can almost be compared to those commercial programs.

Categories: Open Source, Tools

Cuttermaran is a cut program for MPEG1 or MPEG2 video streams. The streams can be cut without recalculation. The asynchronous between audio and video will be minimized. If you are looking for a freeware tool that lets you cut your mpeg1 and mpeg2 video files cuttermaran might be the program you are looking for. It requires Microsoft Net Framework to work, the download link is provided at the programs homepage as well.

Categories: Tools