AVI Editing Program?

[katzdvd]

I am looking for an AVI Edit pgm. that is *free*, & easy to use! What I need is something that I can cut, edit files, fade to black, etc. I have Nero Vision Express (Came w/ burner), & it seems to be "buggy", i.e. hangs a lot, etc.

I was trying AVI Synth, & some others, but this noob needs a GUI interface pgm.!

Any suggestions?
Thanx!

[katana]

Virtualdub can do most of that. Not sure about the fading in/out, but there may be a filter which can.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

[katzdvd]

Tried VirtualDub...

Thanks for the suggestion; I have used VirtualDub a bit; it does work, however, as you mentioned, it will not "fade to black" or other transitions; I could look thru the filters on the site...

I was kinda looking for an "all-in-one pgm. that will do teh whole process easily w/o a lot of extra work/dwnloads, etc.

My Nero Vision Express will do the editing, but as I mentioned, it seems to hang & "crash" my system if I'm not careful...

I will keep looking...

[benbryant]

For a simple Fade In and Out from and to black, you can add the AviSynth script like this example:

AviSource("D:\My Videos.avi")
FadeIn(30)
FadeOut(30)

Where 30 is number of frames

Regards

[katzdvd]

Still looking for a "fade to black/push button" editing program. I had put this project on the back burner for awhile, but now I dug it out again.

Any ideas on an easy to use, *free* program that will do this & other transitions as well?

thanks, katz

[paglamon]

See this:

http://home.earthlink.net/~tacosalad/video/fadefx.htm

[katzdvd]

thanks for the link, paglamon. I looked at the plugin, & I believe at this point I need to spend some $$$. I guess I am in need of a more powerful vid. editor, that will do more in-depth transitions, etc.

It is a neat little plugin, though. It would be useful for simple editing.

cheers, katz