The only frame rate options will be either 25 or 50 fps.
All the other figures refer to the various available bitrates. The higher the bitrate, the higher the quality. You tube will re-encode your clip anyway! If you are intending You Tube to be your final destination, I shouldn't bother too much about recording at the highest quality. The simplicity of this program lies in the media window because that is where you get everything you need. We found that importing video was easy but it did drop a few frames. The missing frames didn’t make a huge difference to the final outcome of the video. Then we went to add pictures and songs from our computer and we found that navigating in the media window was straightforward and quick. We navigated with the explorer tab, selected the files, and then right-clicked and clicked on “add to project.”Īs we mentioned before, all the editing is done on the timeline, since there is no viewer window to modify clips, it can be a bit cluttered.
We did find that if you double-click a clip in the media window it opens another window which allows you to shorten the clip to the desired spot or length, but there was no way to import just the video or just the audio. After we dropped our chosen clips onto the timeline, we used the unlinking button to separate the link between the audio and video then delete the part we didn’t want. Something that we enjoyed about the simplicity of the timeline is that the clips have little handles to control fading from both ends of the clip. If you wanted to crossfade the clips you just drag one on top of the other and it creates a crossfade for you. When we went to make a title or rolling credits for the piece it was effortless with the media window. First you click on galleries, underneath that you will see a text button, click there and boom – all of the title effects you wanted.