Dear Anyone. Am a bit clueless here, so please keep answers simple! I've taken an old home movie from a VHS tape and put it onto my computer. If it helps, I did this by loading it into a video camera and downloading it from the camera to the computer. I now want to change the contrast, enhance colour, hue, saturation etc. BUT all I really want, in the way of software to do this (if there is such a package!) is something that's got a bunch of sliders. You play the video, stop at the bad bits, use the sliders to adjust everything to the way you like it, play the next bit of video.... I've downloaded AVIDEMUX but I can't get my head around using it. I choose the filters but everything I choose seems to make the whole video bright green. And there's no instruction manual with it - the HELP button's useless! VLC lets me adjust everything just the way I like, but I can't work out how to save the adjusted video. If you do CTRL-R, or CTRL-S as it says in its menu, you don't get a SAVE menu coming up, you get an OPEN menu coming up. It says OPEN in the top-left hand corner when surely it should say 'SAVE'. Which baffles me. It isn't hard to baffle me! WHY do you get an 'open' menu coming up when you're trying to save something? If anyone can tell me how to SAVE the adjusted vid. clip FROM VLC to a file in any format, I'd be very grateful. If anyone knows anything that, like VLC, just has a bunch of sliders you use without all the complicated stuff, I'd be equally grateful! I just want to open video clip, edit it, save it. I do not download movies. I just have a bunch of my own on old videotapes I want to enhance and put on DVDs (they're all bought and paid for!) Alternatively, if there's a tutorial anywhere which tells you, very simply, what to do after you've chosen the filters in AVIDEMUX, hopefully I can get the hang of that. But that's desperation. I'd prefer the VLC way if possible Yours hopefully Christopher Burke
AFAIK, the adjustments in VLC don't 'stick' when transcoding. What type of file is the video. If you drag the file onto GSpot it shows the video/audio codecs used - this is useful information for Avidemux. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_tools/gspot.cfm Drag the file onto GSpot and note the codecs that were used to create the file. This one is mpeg-2 video with a frame size of 576x320.
Dear Sir. The original is .AVI. The problem I'm having with AVIDEMUX is that I can choose the filters but I can't find any sliders to control them with. They seem to have one fixed, uncontrollable effect on the video and that's it. I can't find any way to adjust them. VLC has ways to adjust everything, nice easy ones, but no way to save the adjusted video afterwards. Incidentally, if the adjustments don't stick, what's the save function for? And why do you get a box marked OPEN when you choose SAVE? I still don't get that, and I can't find anywhere that explains that bit. (INCLUDING the ViedoLan site, as far as I can find out!) If you or anyone else can help any more, feel free to say something, I'm lost! Yours hopefully ulrichburke
Attar, I Am Not Worthy!! That's the best explanation I've ever seen and you did it all in pictures. Thank you very, very muchly. Yours with huge respect ulrichburke :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D:-D
