DaRuSsIaMaN
[H]ard|Gawd
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Anyone know any good newbie guides to direct my attention to? I don't really know anything. I don't even understand codecs very well, I think.
I am currently trying to do a simple thing: cut out a piece of a .mp4 video downloaded from youtube. Once I can do that, I would like to go further and cut out a couple pieces from the same video and merge them together into one, with some effects like fade out to black, and then fade from black in between the merged pieces. Or something similar.
At first I couldn't even find the software that could handle .mp4 videos, but I found avidemux. Now, when I try to save the selected portion of the video to a new file, I get errors. I don't understand why, and the wiki for avidemux isn't very helpful. It mostly just says what the different buttons do. But I don't understand what formats I should be selecting for video and audio, etc.
I am currently trying to do a simple thing: cut out a piece of a .mp4 video downloaded from youtube. Once I can do that, I would like to go further and cut out a couple pieces from the same video and merge them together into one, with some effects like fade out to black, and then fade from black in between the merged pieces. Or something similar.
At first I couldn't even find the software that could handle .mp4 videos, but I found avidemux. Now, when I try to save the selected portion of the video to a new file, I get errors. I don't understand why, and the wiki for avidemux isn't very helpful. It mostly just says what the different buttons do. But I don't understand what formats I should be selecting for video and audio, etc.