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VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works
eldavojohn writes "Despite news that VLC might not have anyone to work on the Mac release, Lifehacker brings word of a video editor that the VLC team is working on dubbed VideoLAN Media Creator. It hasn't been released yet (git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git) but a pre-release is due out soon."
VLC is great when it comes to playing media. I really can’t find fault with it on that front.
When it comes to encoding media... well, it’s good enough... usually... if you don’t mind playing with it a bit. (Admittedly it does seem better than it used to be. I used to find that more often than not the encoder would crash with some odd error in the message log.) It doesn’t seem to always create portable files – I’ve had output files that only played in VLC, or wouldn’t seek properly, etc. It can’t simultaneously capture the screen and the stereo mix (I have a .js that launches two copies – one to capture the screen, one to capture the stereo mix – and must recombine the separate video/audio tracks in an external video editing suite). Minor details like that...
I’m going to approach this with a considerable amount of skepticism until I find out how well this video editing feature works, unfortunately.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
VLC is already able to transcode media.
That said, I haven’t been overly impressed with its performance. Strange crashes, glitchy files, etc.
For instance, when transcoding a .flv, the first keyframe is always dropped – resulting in only a smear of black/gray for the first second or two of the output file.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.