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Old October 10th 17, 06:13 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 Paul said on Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:43:52 -0400:

Even though the Sendspace is visually distracting,
the Download button still worked to download the wifi.mp4 file.
My download rate here was 80,000 bytes/sec on a 27,470,232 byte
video. About 343 seconds (5 minutes, time for a snack).
It looks like a video of a cellphone screen :-)
With some floating blue rectangles.


Thanks for testing that out Paul because it was my first time doing things
that I would think others here would also want to do.

1. Record "stuff" on Android & bring it over Wi-Fi to Windows for editing
2. Edit a "video" on Windows with (the best so far) video-editing freeware
3. Upload that video to a registration-free binary upload/download site

You are completely correct in your assessment that it's a video of a
cellphone screen with some floating blue rectangles on it! (Your forgot it
also had an obnoxious free music overlay to cover up the grandkid's in the
background.)

The "editing" tasks that had to be surmounted we
A. We had to find the "best" (so far) freeware video editor on Windows.
B. It had to allow us to edit the video & audio on Windows
C. So that private information was redacted (both video & audio)

Trust me when I say I would have *loved* to not have to have those floating
blue rectangles, which were simply "blank" text boxes where both the font
and the background were the same color (and where the only character that
doesn't work but there is no error telling you why is the most obvious
character of blank "spaces").

My main worry is privacy since uploading videos is harder than uploading
images. For uploading images, there are plenty of no-registration web
sites, for example:
Cube Upload http://cubeupload.com
Post Image http://postimage.io
Image Titan http://www.imagetitan.com
We Take Pic http://wetakepic.com http://pictr.com
ImgUr http://imgur.com
Bild.Me http://bild.me
File Convoy http://fileconvoy.com
Share Photo http://share.pho.to
Turbo Image Host https://www.turboimagehost.com
Tiny Pic http://tinypic.com
etc.

But I couldn't find a no-registration "video" upload/streaming site, so if
you know of one, that would help everyone who needs to upload a video while
maintaining privacy.

As for the content, I realize and state openly that I admit that a simple
voice over would have explained the content sufficiently - but what I need
is voice-obfuscation software (to fuel my privacy fetish) so if you know of
good Windows voice-obfuscation freeware - that would be a plus.

Without voice obfuscation, I was left to popping up little text boxes,
which I did in the beginning but I assumed that the specific target
audience would see that the video showed things that Android could do five
years ago that iOS can't hope to do today (but this Windows thread is NOT
about that topic).

This Windows thread is just a tribal-knowledge sharing where I'm giving
back to the team (who suggested Shotcut in the first place) and asking how
to improve the results (which, Lord knows, are amateurish ... I know).

The good news is that Shotcut is a winner. It's pretty hard to use (someone
just suggested VideoPad Editor freeware, which I'm also testing, but it
seems to be really commercial ware in the guise of tease-ware - but time
will tell).

In the end, the price of freeware is in finding the best one to spend
energy on, where Shotcut "seems" to fit the moniker of being the
"canonical" free video editor (other than, perhaps, Windows Movie Maker,
which technically is "free to me" I guess - but I didn't try it).

Thanks for all your helpful advice.
I will always try to give back to the ng so that the tribal knowledge
increases from all my efforts.
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