Looking for a simple, light-weight video editor

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 20:42:34 UTC 2019


For years I have been using the very nice avidemux as my quick and dirty
video editor. While not frame accurate, it performs most basic functions
quite well. Trimming, chopping into scenes, transcoding to/from most common
and many uncommon formats, repackaging into various popular  containers.
Correcting trivial  A/V sync issues. Those basic things without the weight
of tools like kdenlive.

Unfortunately, the port uses the unsupported qt4 which will soon vanish
from ports. The latest version if avidemux, 2.7, uses qt5,but my attempts
fo build 2.7 on FreeBSD have failed. (Assembler issues. Tried both yasm and
nasm.)

Can anyone recommend a replacement? My requirements are:
Copy A/V streams into a new container... mp4, mkv from older ones
Save scenes from a file into separate files
Delete portions of the A/V stream and save the remainder (trimming)
Must be graphical. ffmpeg can do everything, but requires considerable time
and effort to pick the edit points while avidemux makes this simple...
especially abillity to skip to the next/last I-frame.

Any suggestions?
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