So i'm pulling my hair out. I have a youtube channel and I record gameplays with fraps. Now, interestingly for a while fraps clips worked perfectly fine with windows movie maker. After upgrading to windows 10 however, movie maker won't take fraps clips of any kind.
But who cares about movie maker anyway. I should be using better software. So I picked up the free version of lightworks, and let me tell you I LOVE that program. Beautiful interface. But the problem is (again) it doesn't seem to play well with frap's bizarre output format. My videos come out in barely presentable quality. Also, lightworks free version only gives me 720p mp4 which comes out like shite. First it was shakiness, now it's frames repeating all over the place. I can't spend $427 on the pro version. I'll also point out that the fraps clips themselves come out in perfect, beautiful 1080p quality. The problem is just outputting that quality.
So based on this guide http://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-video-editing-software,review-2167.html i'm thinking of trying out cyberlink powerdirector, adobe premiere elements 13, or i'll probably give blender a try. If I can meet my minimal needs with a free program that's great if not i'd gladly drop up to $70 on some software that won't fail me as much.
My needs are as follows:
1.) Has to be friendly enough with frap's output format to edit clips without crashes and be able to export in clean 720p 30fps minimum. I don't need 1080p 60fps... Just CLEAN 720p would make me so happy. I work really hard on my videos.
2.) Must be able to keyframe images and animations on-screen via keyframing layers, as well as some simple animation options such as using image opacity to fade images or clips in and out.
3.) Split, trim, and insert clips.
4.) Support for multiple audio layers. At least 3.
Here's an example link to one of my recent videos edited with lightworks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O7213-UtvI Amazingly windows movie maker has given me better quality output options than lightworks "free"
But who cares about movie maker anyway. I should be using better software. So I picked up the free version of lightworks, and let me tell you I LOVE that program. Beautiful interface. But the problem is (again) it doesn't seem to play well with frap's bizarre output format. My videos come out in barely presentable quality. Also, lightworks free version only gives me 720p mp4 which comes out like shite. First it was shakiness, now it's frames repeating all over the place. I can't spend $427 on the pro version. I'll also point out that the fraps clips themselves come out in perfect, beautiful 1080p quality. The problem is just outputting that quality.
So based on this guide http://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-video-editing-software,review-2167.html i'm thinking of trying out cyberlink powerdirector, adobe premiere elements 13, or i'll probably give blender a try. If I can meet my minimal needs with a free program that's great if not i'd gladly drop up to $70 on some software that won't fail me as much.
My needs are as follows:
1.) Has to be friendly enough with frap's output format to edit clips without crashes and be able to export in clean 720p 30fps minimum. I don't need 1080p 60fps... Just CLEAN 720p would make me so happy. I work really hard on my videos.
2.) Must be able to keyframe images and animations on-screen via keyframing layers, as well as some simple animation options such as using image opacity to fade images or clips in and out.
3.) Split, trim, and insert clips.
4.) Support for multiple audio layers. At least 3.
Here's an example link to one of my recent videos edited with lightworks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O7213-UtvI Amazingly windows movie maker has given me better quality output options than lightworks "free"
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