Looking for a Win7 compatible video editor. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 23, 2025, 11:28:04 pm
content: My basic needs:Public domainWin7up to 1080pImport .webm and generic .x264 videos.blend up to 2 videos, cut paste and picture backgroundGeneric video titlingAudio import and mixing timeline controloptional uncompressed / lossless output(allows me to do additional post mixing if the video editor has no other way to do what I want...)Output generic .mp4 .x264 (Though, if the editor does lossless, I do have my own .x264 compressor.)My final project will be less than a 5 minute long video.Which program should I look for?

author: MarkusAJ
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2025, 12:14:05 am
content: Quote from: BrianHG on April 23, 2025, 11:28:04 pmCheck the OpenShot, it should run in Windows 7.Link:https://www.openshot.org/download/Check also FFmpeg, it's swiss army knife for audio and video formats conversion.Link:https://ffmpeg.org/download.html

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 24, 2025, 12:28:53 am
content: +1 for OpenShot

author: Someone
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2025, 12:41:28 am
content: Are you still asking for things you don't actually need?Quote from: BrianHG on October 03, 2023, 01:53:43 am

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2025, 12:49:23 am
content: Quote from: Someone on April 24, 2025, 12:41:28 amYes, I needed that audio editor for generating the demos for my patented Workout Music Player technology.And, the editor 'Reaper' fit the bill perfectly. (I spent a good 3 weeks total using it. It did everything I needed.)My laptop now has 16gigs ram and an SSD, so it now runs smoothly with everything.Yes, I need to now edit a demo reaction video. It is something I actually need to do.This means the video editor will definitely be used like Reaper.

author: Someone
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2025, 01:57:48 am
content: Quote from: BrianHG on April 24, 2025, 12:49:23 amYou say many words and do not answer the question:Does it need to be public domain?If so why?Or is this like last time where you ask for things that you do not need and waste peoples time.

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2025, 02:33:00 am
content: Ok, once again, not public domain. Just freeware.Also, I've used so many freeware and public domain tools, I do not want to break the formula.MS Office, MS Windows, Altium, and a few old ID software games are the non freeware programs I use out of necessity.Though, I have used Reaper often enough that I will be buying a license as soon as my pre-seed comes in.

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 25, 2025, 06:36:09 pm
content: Openshot looks really nice.It appears to do everything I need, except for 1, generate a lossless .avi output.Yes, buried in, it can export to .png image sequence and then a separate audio track as a .mp3 instead of an uncompressed .wav, but this is a cumbersome solution.Unless I use the highest quality, the video output can become chunky during rapid motion as its built in compressors cannot be configured to do a deep compression for higher quality lower bitrate outputs.I'll play around, see if I can manipulate its output into a better solution.No, the webm vp9 lossless mode is useless as it will take an hour to output a 1.5minute clip. A simple lossless .avi would save the same clip in the neighborhood of 2-3 minutes.

author: u666sa
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 01, 2025, 02:14:46 pm
content: Vegas 14.... Perhaps Vegas 12 depending on your hardware. I run Vegas 14 with quadro 2000M on Windows 10. But up until 2021 I had Windows 7, running that same Vegas 14. So either 14 or 12, depending on your video card.

author: u666sa
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 01, 2025, 02:19:44 pm
content: Quote from: BrianHG on April 23, 2025, 11:28:04 pmYou will be doing that with Pazera video converters, converting your mystery format into proper MP4 and then using that MP4 to compose videos in an video editor, Sony Vegas, or something else.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 01, 2025, 04:11:46 pm
content: You can otherwise try Shotcut too. Its interface may be a bit more intimidating, but I think it has more support for compression formats and whatnot.

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 01, 2025, 05:06:16 pm
content: I managed to get Openshot to do everything I needed. Though, I'm using VirtualDub to stitch 3 different projects together and my special audio needs means I'm using Reaper for a final audio edit and using VirtualDub once again to add a new audio stream as VDub offers lossless stream copies and merging on key-frames for the video streams.For Openshot's video output, I'm using .avi .h264 at 5mb & 15mb, then renaming it to a .mp4. This seems to be more compatible than Openshot's native .mp4 as it plays better in web browsers both directly and through Google's 'Drive' online video player.