[Harp-L] Fwd: How to edit simple videos for upload to Youtube?

[Chris Hofstader]

It may seem weird that the blind guy is recommending a video editing package but, WTF, I’ll toss in an opinion as I’m often involved in producing fundraising videos but am definitely not the guy doing the editing.

I’m a huge advocate of FLOSS (free, libre open source software) and for video I will recommend a package called Blender, it’s available gratis and I know a number of people who use it to produce all sorts of video content. If your buddy wants to do anything with the audio to clean it up, add compression or some other effect, etc. there’s a good program called Audacity that a real lot of people (including me) enjoy using that’s also FLOSS and available gratis for download.

I know Blender runs on both Windows and GNU/Linux but I’m uncertain about Macintosh; Audacity is available for all three.  

I like getting this kind of software from ninite.com, an excellent resource for we hacker sorts who actually care about looking at the source code as well as anyone else looking for really good free and gratis software.

If nothing else, giving Blender and Audacity a try costs nothing in terms of dollars and will definitely be able to do everything you said your friend might want to do.

Happy Hacking,
cdh
 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "Opus314 ." <opus314 at xxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] How to edit simple videos for upload to Youtube?
> Date: April 24, 2017 at 8:12:46 PM EDT
> To: "harp-l at xxxxx" <harp-l at xxxxx>
> 
> I'm trying to advise a friend of mine who is a very talented songwriter on
> how to start recording some of his songs for his YouTube channel and begin
> to build a large fan base.
> 
> I've done some advanced video editing before using Sony Vegas Pro but my
> buddy is not going to invest in a sophisticated video editing system and
> has marginal tech capabilities.
> 
> Basically I'm encouraging him to setup two mics... one for guitar and one
> for vocals... and a simple clip on camera to put on top of his monitor...
> or a built in laptop camera...
> 
> Then record the video... then clip the front and back ends off, save it,
> and if he likes it upload it... else just do it again till he likes what he
> got.
> 
> The question... what simple video editors does everyone use for all these
> YouTube videos?
> 
> A free one would be nice and Microsoft once had Windows Movie Maker... but
> I don't think it is still being updated and maintained by Microsoft...
> 
> So, watta you guys suggest?
> 
> Thanks