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What's a good free Windows video editor that crops out data in the MP4 video frame?
In message , Neil
writes: On 9/28/2017 1:42 PM, harry newton wrote: [] https://filmora.wondershare.com/ [] . Filmora will put the effect on the face it detected. So the functionality seems to be called "face off", which I will search to see if freeware Windows programs have this "face-off" feature set. Well, good luck with all of that. I've used the "paid" version of Filmora with Win10 for a couple of years, and can tell you that it is capable of the task in more than one way. I mentioned the simplest. Quite frankly, your time must not be worth much to avoid the cost of that program. This topic alone would have paid for it a few times over at my rate. To save others wondering: as far as I can tell from the above page, it's $40. And that's a yearly fee, not an outright price. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf No, I haven't changed my mind - I'm perfectly happy with the one I have, thank you. |
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What's a good free Windows video editor that crops out data in the MP4 video frame?
He who is J. P. Gilliver (John) said on Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:26:52 +0100:
Quite frankly, your time must not be worth much to avoid the cost of that program. This topic alone would have paid for it a few times over at my rate. To save others wondering: as far as I can tell from the above page, it's $40. And that's a yearly fee, not an outright price. Thank you both, J.P.Gilliver & Neil for your observations & information. To Mr. Gilliver, I thank you for finding the cost, which I always amortize over ten years that we stick with any given great tool, so in this case, it costs $400 to block out data in a video used to post to the Internet once to block out SSID/BBSID information in a WiFi video. By way of contrast, and to Neil's point, I buy "tools" all the time, e.g., I change my own tires and balance them statically, where it cost about $300 for the tire mounting/dismounting/balancing tools and where the materials costs (valves, weights mostly) is negligible, so that, after the first fifteen tires (at a savings of about $20/tire), the tools are free thereafter. Over a span of ten years (which is usually how I amortize tools), the cost is $300 and the savings (of five tires every two years for each of three vehicles) is $600, so the "cost" savings alone is $300 in the first ten years, and $600 per year thereafter (if I did the math in my head right). The time is "about the same" for dropping off the car, waiting in the office, picking up the car, haggling with them because I have never once in my entire life seen a tire "correctly" mounted (trust me, I know that the shop knows how to properly mount a tire - but that shop also knows that almost no consumer knows how a tire should be properly mounted - so the true cost to the consumer is that they pay more than I pay and they get a tire that is almost *never* mounted correctly, at least not to the exacting standards that tires are *supposed* to be mounted). It's true that some people look at the tire-mounting problem the same as they look at this video-editing problem, where, to them, the cost inherent in finding the right way in freeware to do things is prohibitive. They'd rather pay for the convenience of some other tool - which is fine - but a pure cost:time decision doesn't take into account the full picture. There is pleasure that people derive from having never in the past few decades NOT found freeware that did fundamentally what the payware does. For example: Is there any useful pay functionalitythat doesn't have a free alternative? https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.mobile.android/QL9US7YMxbs/xoRXAIXIAgAJ The point is that the suggestion of the $40/year payware is a good one if we were running a business where time is more important than money or personal satisfaction - but there's a certain amount of personal satisfaction from never once having failed to find freeware that does every job that anyone has ever found that Payware does (at least for my needs). Just as I derive personal satisfaction out of properly repairing my neighbor's punctured tires on the spot with an inside patchplug, there are those who derive pleasure from knowledge they have that freeware does everything that payware does, only at a different type of cost. |
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What's a good free Windows video editor that crops out data in the MP4 video frame?
He who is J. P. Gilliver (John) said on Thu, 28 Sep 2017 18:47:05 +0100:
Unfortunately, the Windows 10 newsgroup is not archived by deja-google. I was going to say there is more to life than deja-google ... I've been on Usenet since before Dejanews, so, yeah, I'm familiar with all the relevant newsgroups. FWIW, I had been thinking of suggesting VirtualDub too, but I didn't know if it could blank or blur parts; I've used it mainly for format conversion (without terrible results that parts of this thread have suggested; I don't know if it can use mp4s though) and cropping (which it does fine). VirtualDub is currently a non starter simply because it doesn't appear to handle MP4 files based on the information to date. There's nothing magical about MP4 files; but that's what they are. I'm on Android 4.3 where the screen-recording software available vastly opened up later, in Android 4.4, but even so, since I'm rooted, I could probably find other screen-recording software that may create AVI container files instead of MP4 (or maybe ScreenRec freeware can change its output format - I haven't checked yet). In addition, I could use Super or Handbrake freeware to convert the MP4 to almost anything, but again, that's against the spirit of the quest which is to find a "face off" functionality to any given Android-recorded video clip, where MP4 is a pretty common standard for Android, I would think. Since wanting to blur a face or sign or street name or address (etc) in an Android-created video is likely a common enough need, I'm confident we'll find someone here who has the technical wherewithal and experience who will advise us as to the best universal approach for Windows to do the task quickly and for free. Never once in my life have I not found freeware to perform a specific task I needed to have done, so I'm confident we'll find the solution here also. We just need to find someone on this ng who has done it with freeware. |
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What's a good free Windows video editor that crops out data in the MP4 video frame?
He who is newshound said on Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:03:54 +0100:
I'm currently using Shotcut (for simpler things than that) and am pretty impressed. I *think* I have seen this done on one of their demo videos where they applied stabilisation to a hand-held "interview" type of thing, then used cropping to get rid of the blurry edges. I saw Shotcut listed in one of the Google finds, but that's my sum total of experience with Shotcut. Googling specificaly for Shotcut, I find two possible "canonical" locations, which generally means something fishy is going on: https://www.shotcut.org/download/ https://www.shotcutapp.com/download/ But both seem to be "the same page" so I will not dig into the domains to see if they geolocate similarly. Looking at the full list of features, I don't see what we're looking for: https://www.shotcut.org/features/ But the ability to "face blur" may still be there somewhere and the fact it's open source and cross platform is a huge plus as it vastly reduces both the risk of freeware at the same time it potentially increases the flexibility over proprietary solutions. At the moment, Shotcut is the primary freeware program to investigate to determine if and how it can "blur or block selected areas" in an Android-created MP4 video clip. Don't have time ATM to read the other responses, but will look forward to doing so having had the same grief after my paid-for editor (Pinnacle) turned out to be unsupported by W10. Thank you for mentioning that about Pinnacle because I bought, long ago, a boxed set of Pinnacle Studio 9 (I think) which is somewhere in my attic, where I was wondering if it would work with both MP4 and Windows 10 (and where I doubt it does). You've given me more reason not to look for it. Also lost access to Movie Maker when I had to do a full reinstall of W10 from scratch, and *really* did not fancy all the registry tweaks that are said to be needed to get it back. I was also wondering about the Windows "freeware" (technically not free, but at no additional cost), so again you're helping us decide what NOT to try, since 95% of the freeware expense is wasted in trying the solutions that never stood a chance of working. |
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What's a good free Windows video editor that crops out data inthe MP4 video frame?
On 9/28/2017 2:26 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Neil writes: On 9/28/2017 1:42 PM, harry newton wrote: [] https://filmora.wondershare.com/ [] . Filmora will put the effect on the face it detected. So the functionality seems to be called "face off", which I will search to see if freeware Windows programs have this "face-off" feature set. Well, good luck with all of that. I've used the "paid" version of Filmora with Win10 for a couple of years, and can tell you that it is capable of the task in more than one way. I mentioned the simplest. Quite frankly, your time must not be worth much to avoid the cost of that program. This topic alone would have paid for it a few times over at my rate. To save others wondering: as far as I can tell from the above page, it's $40. And that's a yearly fee, not an outright price. To save even more wondering, you have to go a few pages deeper to actually purchase the program, and one option is a lifetime license charge of $59.99US for use on one PC. It is an "outright price" that I paid a couple of years ago and I get regular updates for free. https://filmora.wondershare.com/shop/buy/buy-video-editor.html Filmora does more than programs that I used with earlier versions of Windows and Mac (Avid, for one) at less than 5% of their cost. Spend your time however you wish, but if one asks for a solution and one is provided, it might be a good investment to at least check it out. -- best regards, Neil |
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What's a good free Windows video editor that crops out data inthe MP4 video frame?
On 9/28/2017 2:48 PM, harry newton wrote:
He who is J. P. Gilliver (John) said on Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:26:52 +0100: Quite frankly, your time must not be worth much to avoid the cost of that program. This topic alone would have paid for it a few times over at my rate. To save others wondering: as far as I can tell from the above page, it's $40. And that's a yearly fee, not an outright price. Thank you both, J.P.Gilliver & Neil for your observations & information. To Mr. Gilliver, I thank you for finding the cost, which I always amortize over ten years that we stick with any given great tool, so in this case, it costs $400 to block out data in a video used to post to the Internet once to block out SSID/BBSID information in a WiFi video. No, it will cost you $59.99 for a lifetime license for one PC with free updates. See my reply to Mr. Gilliver for a link to the purchase page. -- best regards, Neil |
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What's a good free Windows video editor that crops out data in the MP4 video frame?
He who is harry newton said on Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:07:57 +0000 (UTC):
Looking at the full list of features, I don't see what we're looking for: https://www.shotcut.org/features/ Googling we find more than what was found on the canonical web site: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tutorial+s...+face+-filmora - How to Blur a Video - Shotcut Tutorial http://gadoga.com/en/how-to-blur-sensor-video-shotcut-tutorial.html This tutorial shows two ways, a blur, and a text block overlay: - How to Blur & Obscure Part of an image with Shotcut https://youtu.be/VErftj1fUHs This tutorial explains the method a bit deeper: https://plus.google.com/+JamesWoo/posts/ht9mvmRDs6r "Shotcut does not have a blur filter per se, but this workaround achieves a similar result. This is used if you want to blur some text (eg off a number plate, t-shirt) or someone's face, when you have already recorded a video, and there's no way of re-shooting the video." Note that other solutions were found in that search, where, as is often the case with freeware, multiple best-in-class solutions are cascaded: How to blur faces in video http://www.tinkernut.com/2010/02/how-to-blur-faces-in-videos/ Where that tutorial utilized the following softwa http://www.formatoz.com http://audacity.sourceforge.net http://www.debugmode.com/wax http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm I don't know yet if Shotcut can handle MP4, but if it does, it seems pretty clear that Shotcut is, so far, the best and easiest suggested way to blur/obscure a selected area in an MP4 video using existent Windows freeware. |
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What's a good free Windows video editor that crops out data in the MP4 video frame?
He who is newshound said on Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:03:54 +0100:
I'm currently using Shotcut (for simpler things than that) and am pretty impressed. I *think* I have seen this done on one of their demo videos where they applied stabilisation to a hand-held "interview" type of thing, then used cropping to get rid of the blurry edges. If Shotcut can handle MP4, I think this suggestion moves it to the top! https://www.shotcut.org/features/ Googling we find more than what was found on the canonical Shotcut site: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tutorial+shotcut+blur+face+-filmora - How to Blur a Video - Shotcut Tutorial http://gadoga.com/en/how-to-blur-sensor-video-shotcut-tutorial.html This tutorial shows two ways, a blur, and a text block overlay: - How to Blur & Obscure Part of an image with Shotcut https://youtu.be/VErftj1fUHs This tutorial explains the method a bit deeper: https://plus.google.com/+JamesWoo/posts/ht9mvmRDs6r "Shotcut does not have a blur filter per se, but this workaround achieves a similar result. This is used if you want to blur some text (eg off a number plate, t-shirt) or someone's face, when you have already recorded a video, and there's no way of re-shooting the video." Note that other solutions were found in that search, where, as is often the case with freeware, multiple best-in-class solutions are cascaded: How to blur faces in video http://www.tinkernut.com/2010/02/how-to-blur-faces-in-videos/ Where that tutorial utilized the following softwa http://www.formatoz.com http://audacity.sourceforge.net http://www.debugmode.com/wax http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm I don't know yet if Shotcut can handle MP4, but if it does, it seems pretty clear that Shotcut is, so far, the best and easiest suggested way to blur/obscure a selected area in an MP4 video using existent Windows freeware. |
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What's a good free Windows video editor that crops out data in the MP4 video frame?
In message , Neil
writes: [] Quite frankly, your time must not be worth much to avoid the cost of that program. This topic alone would have paid for it a few times over at my rate. To save others wondering: as far as I can tell from the above page, it's $40. And that's a yearly fee, not an outright price. To save even more wondering, you have to go a few pages deeper to actually purchase the program, and one option is a lifetime license charge of $59.99US for use on one PC. It is an "outright price" that I paid a couple of years ago and I get regular updates for free. https://filmora.wondershare.com/shop/buy/buy-video-editor.html Ah, sorry. I found the site far from easy to navigate (for a start, it doesn't render properly in my preferred browser). [] Spend your time however you wish, but if one asks for a solution and one is provided, it might be a good investment to at least check it out. Well, I and (I think) the OP would consider $60 more than we'd want to shell out for occasional or (I think he might have said it was) a one-off need. Your mention of "at my rate" suggests you're looking at this as a professional rather than personal task - or, you price your private time the same as your professional time. That latter is a personal choice, which I've often thought of following, but I often can't bring myself to do so (in this case spend $60). If I was doing it as part of professional employment, I might thing differently. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. |
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What's a good free Windows video editor that crops out data in the MP4 video frame?
He who is Neil said on Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:18:51 -0400:
No, it will cost you $59.99 for a lifetime license for one PC with free updates. See my reply to Mr. Gilliver for a link to the purchase page. I thank you again for the link to "how" the payware does the job, because it's always good to have in the dejanews record the tribal knowledge for the future of three things related to that paywa 1. That there is payware that does the face-blurring job 2. How that payware does the face-blurring job 3. How much that payware costs (in this case, $60) to do that job This is all good information, and relevant to the quest of finding freeware to do a "similar" (if not exactly the same" job, suitable for the informal presentations we often provide on Usenet. Payware isn't free. Freeware isn't free. The costs are just in different places. For freeware, the cost is the cost required to obtain the expert knowledge of how to do it using canonical freeware software to do the job. It's important to note I that never in the past few decades have I not been able to find freeware that essentially does the job that payware purportedly does, so I would expect the same 100% success rate with the task of blocking out static blocks of text as shown in this screenshot from my Android phone: http://i64.tinypic.com/27xi5hf.jpg After watching the first tutorial, these seem to be two potentially viable methods to test to be able to block out faces or street signs or any static bit of information in an MP4 video created on an Android phone and then uploaded to Windows 10. - How to Blur & Obscure Part of an image with Shotcut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VErftj1fUHs To blur: - Copy a video so you have two tracks & mute the audio of one track - On one track, crop to just the face or street sign - Then size & position that cropped area onto the original video - Then blur that size & position (which sits on top of the original video) To block: - Create a block of blank text of any background color desired - Set the block background saturation color output channel to 255 - Drag that blank-text block over your desired area to block out I don't know yet if MP4 is supported in Shotcut, but that's the only research hurdle left before testing it out later tonight (I have a meeting to run to at the moment). |
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