I use Final Cut Pro for video editing as it provides a lot of tools in the basic package and allows for most video formats to be used as is without any conversation beforehand. Microsoft Movie Maker does a reasonable job for simple clips and I have tried Adobe's Premiere but just don't get on with that. Doing some stuff in FCP can take a lot of practice and results can be inconsistent. I stumbled across FCPeffects and they do some plugins that I quite liked. One is the action camera plugin. Like the lens correction you get in Photoshop this removes the distortion you get on GoPros and similar cameras. Another one I got was the dual screen option where you can have multiple shots in one frame. Not something you would use that much but sometimes it will be useful. The final one I got is sharpening. This is useful for cleaning up dull shots.
Today I was just playing with two cameras mounted on the car (one on the windscreen inside) and one low on the front bumper. I applied all three plugins to this clip just as an experiment. The two minute clip to 90 mins to render even on an i7 4 core with multithreading! The short journey was from Linlithgow towards home, nothing exciting. Hardest part was trying to get both clips synced even when using the door slam as a sync point it took a while to get it close. Of course both top and bottom were meant to be the same size!
Today I was just playing with two cameras mounted on the car (one on the windscreen inside) and one low on the front bumper. I applied all three plugins to this clip just as an experiment. The two minute clip to 90 mins to render even on an i7 4 core with multithreading! The short journey was from Linlithgow towards home, nothing exciting. Hardest part was trying to get both clips synced even when using the door slam as a sync point it took a while to get it close. Of course both top and bottom were meant to be the same size!
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