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As some here may know, I am an avid cycle tourist, and I also have a Wordpress "tips and tricks" website on the subject (in Dutch for now). I have decided that I want to record a short YouTube video on lightweight luggage, to demonstrate that modern camping gear allows you to ride with much less weight than in the past. I have good enough hardware for this purpose: a Panasonic Lumix M4/3 camera, a Gitzo carbon tripod, a small Olympus digital recorder and a Sennheiser ME3 headset microphone.
I am convinced that most amateur videos suffer from inadequate sound, but I believe that if I record the audio with the Sennheiser external microphone and the digital recorder, the audio should be more than good enough. It has been a long time since I last did this, and at that time I used Pluraleyes, a separate piece of software to synchronize the audio and the video. It used the audio from the camera and then synchronized the external audio and copied it into one file with the video. However, Pluraleyes not only went up a lot in price, but has also been discontinued. For video editing I used Adobe Premiere, to which I no longer have access. Also, though powerful, it was also complex. So my question is simple: does anyone here have a suggestion for cheap/free and simple to use video editing (Windows) software that incorporates external audio synchronization?
 
Willem said:
As some here may know, I am an avid cycle tourist, and I also have a Wordpress "tips and tricks" website on the subject (in Dutch for now). I have decided that I want to record a short YouTube video on lightweight luggage, to demonstrate that modern camping gear allows you to ride with much less weight than in the past. I have good enough hardware for this purpose: a Panasonic Lumix M4/3 camera, a Gitzo carbon tripod, a small Olympus digital recorder and a Sennheiser ME3 headset microphone.
I am convinced that most amateur videos suffer from inadequate sound, but I believe that if I record the audio with the Sennheiser external microphone and the digital recorder, the audio should be more than good enough. It has been a long time since I last did this, and at that time I used Pluraleyes, a separate piece of software to synchronize the audio and the video. It used the audio from the camera and then synchronized the external audio and copied it into one file with the video. However, Pluraleyes not only went up a lot in price, but has also been discontinued. For video editing I used Adobe Premiere, to which I no longer have access. Also, though powerful, it was also complex. So my question is simple: does anyone here have a suggestion for cheap/free and simple to use video editing (Windows) software that incorporates external audio synchronization?
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Hi Willem i'm too a cycling enthousiast could you direct me to your "Wordpress "tips and tricks" website. For what it's worth some months ago i started ASR on Strava https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/asr-on-strava.57918/

Have a look under activiteiten.

For my Strava video's i use Youcut video editor (if edeting is needed) simple but for me adequate.
 
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https://fietsvakantie.home.blog/ I am currently updating it, so some prices and models of bicycles are outdated, but the general information is more than relevant. I was also the program coordinator for the Wereldfietsfestival, last January in Ede, with 30 presentations in five lecture rooms, for 1150 visitors. There will be another one next January, but we don't know yet where and when exactly. I will have a look at your Strava activities.
 
Willem said:
https://fietsvakantie.home.blog/ I am currently updating it, so some prices and models of bicycles are outdated, but the general information is more than relevant. I was also the program coordinator for the Wereldfietsfestival, last January in Ede, with 30 presentations in five lecture rooms, for 1150 visitors. There will be another one next January, but we don't know yet where and when exactly. I will have a look at your Strava activities.
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Zit jij ook op Strava ?
 
staticV3 said:
CapCut Desktop and Davinci Resolve are IMO the only free video editor programs worth considering.
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Blender can also edit video now:

www.blender.org

Video Editing — blender.org

The Video Editor offers a range of basic yet very efficient tools.
www.blender.org www.blender.org

It's probably not for the novice ;)
 
Thanks guys. I indeed want something simple and quite basic, because I do not want to make this into a career. There is one thing I have to add: when I looked for Pluraleyes, the audio and video program that I used to use, their site send me some malware. Do not go there.
 
Adobe Rush (free limited version of Adobe Premiere) is quiet good but very limited on options. Many youtube vloggers that i know are using it.

Davinci Resolve only works on very powerfull computers, it needs at least 32GB Ram and a higher end cpu and gpu to run smooth, without it's not usable. But if you got such a machine it's one of the best.

Shortcut is what i use, but the interface may be not that logic to you. You need to try it and see if it works for you. It does a great job for me, but i know others curse it. It's quiet advanced once you get the tricks, and very stable and runs on average computers.
 
Thanks again. I have a pretty powerful Intel NUC computer: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10710U CPU @ 1.10GHz 1.61 GHz, with 32 GB RAM and a large SSD, but it sits in a fanless case so it sometimes shuts down when it has to work hard.
 
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If you don't have a powerfull GPU (video card) i would not try Resolve, try Shortcut first. Also passive cooled with that CPU won't work with Resolve as it does not cool enough for that kind of load. Resolve can even let a modern imac sound like a jet starting up sometimes... It really demands a lot from your computer. Shortcut runs very smooth on my 4 year old Lenovo T15 with an I7 (with onboard graphics), 16GB Ram and an SSD. Resolve does run, but hangs all the time.
 
voodooless said:
Blender can also edit video now:

www.blender.org

Video Editing — blender.org

The Video Editor offers a range of basic yet very efficient tools.
www.blender.org www.blender.org

It's probably not for the novice ;)
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Blender has actually had rudimentary video editing features for nearly 20 years now, but having used both I would still recommend DaVinci.

It's pretty complex / robust but I was able to get into the swing of it after an hour or two for basic sound / video tasks.
 
If only for simple editing, you may want to try lightworks.
 
dasdoing said:
it shouldn't shut down. Does it actually, or crash?
Modern CPUs will thermal throttle instead of crashing.
It might be that the power adapter is too weak, or something similar.
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It shuts down with a message that the temperature is getting too high. I fear the mounting of the NUC board into the Akasa case was less than perfect, but I don't know.
 
Thanks very much. It wil take a bit of reading and thinking (I am no computer expert). What happens in my case is more than the system slowing itself down: it shuts down. Sometimes the case is not even very warm, suggesting that it is not the computer as a whole that is geting too warm, but just one critical component.
 
Willem said:
Thanks very much. It wil take a bit of reading and thinking (I am no computer expert). What happens in my case is more than the system slowing itself down: it shuts down. Sometimes the case is not even very warm, suggesting that it is not the computer as a whole that is geting too warm, but just one critical component.
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It's probably the CPU badly overheating. This can be caused by inadequate airflow or sometimes the CPU cooler isn't placed properly, with too much or too little thermal paste. Re-seating the cooler is something you can probably DIY if other causes are ruled out.
 
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