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Old October 10th 17, 05:43 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general
harry newton
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Default How does my very first edited video (using Shotcut freeware) look?

He who is Shadow said on Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:26:38 -0300:

How does my very first Windows-edited video (using Shotcut freeware) look?
https://www.sendspace.com/file/gvckbe


Looks fine to me. I would have cut the music out. Wastes 10MB
out of the 26MB total, and adds nothing to content.


Thanks Shadow for that advice to cut the obnoxious free music.

In all honesty, I couldn't get Shotcut to cut the original audio track out,
which contained the grand kids saying stuff in the background so I didn't
want that on there. So I tried to overpower the original audio with the
license-free audio - which I also wanted to test out.

I could get shotcut to "mute" the original audio - but I was couldn't split
the audio track off the video - so I was afraid that the audio could be
"extracted" in the download.

Since you're the second person to mention the obnoxious audio track, I'll
concentrate on learning how to really remove the audio (not just mute it)
in Shotcut. Thanks for that advice as this was my first video-editing
endeavor using freeware.

Neat the way you cut out the MAC addresses (bit pointless,
anyone within range can capture them,


I learned that the *hardest* thing for video editing freeware to do is to
"blur faces" and "follow them" (which is the same thing we want for MAC
addresses).

So I had to constantly snip the video because I had scrolled up and down to
show the various access points (which was a feature of the Android
capability). But each time I scrolled, the MAC address moved, so I had to
snip and use filters each time it moved.

I haven't yet found a freeware video editor that can "follow" a blur, so
this limitation may very well simply be a limitation in the freeware that
we have to live with (since I don't need to edit videos all that much).

and Google logs even your passwords ....)


Hmmmmmmm... are you sure? I presume you're talking about how most Android
phones are misconfigured by the user to allow Google to capture every
SSID/BSSID and GPS location and signal strength that the Android phone can
capture.

I know that Google "gets" all that information from your neighbor's badly
misconfigured Android phones even if you *hide* the broadcast of the SSID
and even if you add "_nomap" to the end of the SSID.
a. Your access point SSID
b. Your access point BSSID (it's the MAC address that is not changeable)
c. The GPS location of your neighbor's Android phone tracking you
d. The signal strength the Android phone sees of your access point

While Google "gets" that information from your neighbor's misconfigured
Android phone, AFAIK, Google "says" they scrub that information from the
database under those two conditions:
a. You hide the SSID broadcast (which has other problems), and/or,
b. You appended "_nomap" to the SSID

Even so, I didn't know that "passphrases" are captured by your neighbor's
misconfigured Android phones.

Are you sure about that potential privacy leak?

PS To those having trouble with downloads --- just block
Google datamining with your hosts file, and you won't be redirected to
a login page.


I apologize if that site sucks. I did download the video myself after I had
uploaded it, but, I don't recall it being a big hassle. Then again, as you
noted, I have the MVP Hosts file which blocks over 15 thousand obnoxious
web sites, and I'm pretty sure Mayayana has helped me in the past add all
the Google crapsites to that list (yes, Mayayana, I'll get to Acrylic DNS
someday so that I can use asterisks instead of the HOSTS file static
method).

To the point of making the download easier for others, I'd be perfectly
happy to use some other registration-free upload site to post the video.

I posted a few moments ago a list of registration-free "binary" upload
sites. I can't find a registration-free "video" upload & streaming download
site yet.

If anyone knows of a registration-free (probably ad-supported) video-upload
and download-streaming site, that would be a bonus!
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