A week or so ago I posted a list of free utilities to help for those of you using your general purpose computer for video editing. In the course of doing something mindless today I suddenly remembered two more that I completely forgot at the time.
Not sure really how I could forget these because both of them are great tools to have.
The first one is an audio editor and audio manipulation software. I know I already recommended Audacity in the last post on this subject but this one is a little more user friendly.
The program is called Power Sound Editor Free and is just crammed with features and functionality… and beside, ya can’t beat the price!
You can take a look at it here at Power Sound Editor Free
The other free software I forgot to mention is specifically for those of you doing DV.avi video capture from standard definition tape based camcorders.
Most video editing software is actually four or more types of software crammed into one. Video capture, video editing, video titling and video output of some kind like DVD or whatever. Most of the consumer level video programs tend to be “jacks of all trades and masters of none.”
DV.avi capture can sometimes get a little problematic because the sheer size of the files being transferred and more importantly, the sustained rate at which the data has to be transferred. The video capturing part of the software can’t stop the process of transfer to catch up if the computer is struggling.
If the video editing software does fall behind then the program starts to “drop frames.” That means it just skips a few frames to catch up.
The correct and tolerable number of dropped frames is actually ZERO! Ifyou do get dropped frames then in the editing stage or the rendering stage you will have problems.
The answer to that is another very small and very simple little utility called WinDV. It is a standalone program so you don’t actually install it, just plonk it down on your hard drive wherever you want…don’t forget where!
Because it is purpose built for only capturing DV.avi it manges the Windows memory system very well and I think you have to be kicking your computer while you are capturing video to get it to drop frames.
You can download it at this link here: WinDV
Ok, this time I think that’s all… but then again I may think of something else!
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