Hi everyone,
We’re looking for someone who can help edit the video recording of an event we recently organized. If you have experience with video editing or would like to assist, please let me know in the thread.
Any help polishing the recording and preparing it for sharing would be much appreciated!
Link to the recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vnsRNt7ZtEU182t-pAg0d7iRU6iqaqYA/view?usp=sharing
Thanks in advance for your support.
Is there a particular style you are going for or things you want to do to the video?
Are there certain things you want to remove? or certain timestamps you want to use to split the video into many smaller segments?
There are many possibilities when it comes to editing. I tend to use Blender as my primary editor (yes i know its primarily for 2d/3d animation but the video editing functionality is quite good and a lot easier to use in newer versions).
For the past couple of Fedora events (Flock and some virtual events) I have used some scripts located in this repo that uses information from various sources (event schedule, sponsorblock, etc) to help process tons of video fairly rapidly for events like Flock to Fedora. I suspect that may be overkill for this usecase though.
Happy to help guide you towards solutions that may best fit what you are trying to achieve!
Thanks @moralcode, I think you can find unclear parts or time gaps (especially during Q&A or moments of silence) and cut it out. Any adjustments that you find relevant (don’t know much about editing, based on your experience)
You’re likely to have better results if someone who attended the event does the editing since they’re going to have a better idea of where the gaps between topics .etc happen to be and also are likely to be more familiar with how best to convey the event.
If someone who attended the event wants to give editing a try, I’d be happy to do what I can to help answer questions in this thread or potentially point you at tutorials for blender video editing if that helps.
I’m checking the video, I’ll give a more detailed info on how we need it to be done, parts to be cut and others. I don’t think I will do it best, maybe next time. If you have time we can do this together and I will learn and do the next one 
Took the time to recheck the video again, and below are some of the places I would like to be removed, along with the suggested time stamps:
I think the general idea is to smoothen it a bit.
Cuts:
3:00 - 3:30
5:10 - 5:29
9:12 - 9:26
13:11 - 13:16
14:30 - 14:40
18:10 - 19:25
21:06 - 21:21
41:55 - 42:05
55:55 - 56:05
59:41 - 59:44
1:02:56 - 1:04:13
1:06:12 - 1:06:40
1:09:00 - 1:09:30
1:11:29 - 1:11:40
1:12:32 - 1:13:34
1:20:19 - 1:20:42
1:21:44 -1:21:53
1:22:12 - 1:22:24
1:24:55 - 1:25:29
1:26:07 - 1:26:40
1:28:18 - 1:29:27
1:30:40 - 1:31:06
1:42:04 - 1:42:42
1:43:33 - 1:44:05
I think after the cuts, the timestamps wont be the same ( I hope this would help get the nearest time):
CHapters:
00:00:00 - Intro, Fedora Docs
00:00:50 - How Fedora docs work
00:03:30 - What are Fedora docs (optional)
00:04:45 - First step: Fedora Account system
00:06:35 - Communications
00:11:40 - Contents of Fedora Docs repo
00:11:00 - (ssh keys)
00:19:48 - Version control(Git)
00:30:11 - Contributing
00:39:35 - Workflow
00:56:05 - Writing (tips)
00:59:44 - Other ways to contribute
01:02:30 - Additional info
01:06:00 - Outreachy
01:07:40 - Demo
01:20:20 - Others, Q&A
01:42:42 - Closing
Also, not sure if the timestamps would help or will be handled by whoever is publishing? (or I can redo it after the cuts)
Yeah, these will likely need recalculating once you have the final edit.
If you only want to remove the segments you outlined (and not do anything else like cropping or adding text), then you may have an easier time using a program called LosslessCut: LosslessCut
Why not start by downloading LosslessCut and playing with it to see how far you can get on your own? It should be fairly straightforward to use and they have some video demos on their site and a discussions tab on their github if you need to look up where things are in their interface (I’ll also be around in this thread if you dont mind waiting a day or so to get an answer to a question)
haha - sure, lemme get started, downloading LosslesCut …
In case it helps:
Since you already did the work of finding the timestamps, I copy-pasted them into a file and reformatted them in a way that (i think) will allow you to simply import them into losslesscut.
If you drag your video file into LC and then drag this CSV in, it might (i havent tested it) populate with all the segments of video that you wanted to keep
To get the file create an empty text file with a .csv extension and paste this content:
0:00, 3:00
3:30, 5:10
5:29, 9:12
9:26, 13:11
13:16, 14:30
14:40, 18:10
19:25, 21:06
21:21, 41:55
42:05, 55:55
56:05, 59:41
59:44, 1:02:56
1:04:13, 1:06:12
1:06:40, 1:09:00
1:09:30, 1:11:29
1:11:40, 1:12:32
1:13:34, 1:20:19
1:20:42, 1:21:44
1:21:53, 1:22:12
1:22:24, 1:24:55
1:25:29, 1:26:07
1:26:40, 1:28:18
1:29:27, 1:30:40
1:31:06, 1:42:04
1:42:42, 1:43:33
Thanks, lemme try it
Hi, the csv timestamps didn’t quite work out for me(or maybe I’m still figuring out how to that works), so I did it manually and here is the final version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mvuHsiix-ujzL7M25-fLlv98l2iuoQ8c/view?usp=sharing
I’ve trimmed out the noises, and it’s much better now.
Is there anything else that can be done? like the overlay logo, cover image?
Are those things you would like to do?
For those, something like blender may be a better tool - happy to guide you through that if it helps!
Hi, yea. I think we can do that. Any guides?
For getting a transparent image overlaid on the video, this may help: video sequence editor - How to overlay a picture with transparency overr a movie clip? - Blender Stack Exchange (its a little old since blender has updated their UI, but its the same thing I would do here)
Adding title cards should be the same as adding another video clip, but instead of a video, you can bring in your static image and stretch the time to last however long you want.
Here’s a random playlist of blender VSE (Video Sequence Editor) tutorials that I found if you want general info on how to use blender for video editing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Ry3nn8UG5Zo9Zju5gi_N-Wh-Mbb7d9d
Let me know if that helps/if you get stuck!
I’m stuck. I tried the guides and not working or rather no straight forward way for me, and it’s eating my head. Can you help? we put this up this week?
Ah whoops sorry I didnt see this in my notifications
Seems like similar efforts are ongoing in this thread: Flock 2025 videos? - #9 by gwmngilfen