I used OBS Gamecaster to video parts of my game play; have short game play of 2 min up to 12 min. I want to combine them into one video with a title that I can then send to YouTube. I've gone through many YouTube tutorials, but do not understand how to do this. Is anyone willing to tutor me, online?
Question / Help How to combine scenes into final video?
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koala
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Producing a video from snippets is done with a video editor. There are a bunch of video editor applications out there, from trivial to super sophisticated. From freeware to many thousand dollar software.
There is the free Windows Movie Maker for up to Windows 8.1. Non-linear editing but bad output quality.
There is free avidemux. Only linear editing, but good output quality.
One of these two should be able to create your first video. To add a title or other fancy stuff, use OBS to compose a snippet that includes it. Play a video as video source within OBS, add a text source to show some text and re-record the video with the overlaid text.
Other choices look for "video editor" at google. Often used software seems Sony Vegas, or Magix. Software that does more than just cutting scenes and append them to each other usually cost money.
There is the free Windows Movie Maker for up to Windows 8.1. Non-linear editing but bad output quality.
There is free avidemux. Only linear editing, but good output quality.
One of these two should be able to create your first video. To add a title or other fancy stuff, use OBS to compose a snippet that includes it. Play a video as video source within OBS, add a text source to show some text and re-record the video with the overlaid text.
Other choices look for "video editor" at google. Often used software seems Sony Vegas, or Magix. Software that does more than just cutting scenes and append them to each other usually cost money.
OK, then I can't edit videos with OBS. Thank you for the information.
I did record part of a game with XSplit and posted it on YouTube with pretty good quality; but it was one continuous tape; no title page. Video and Audio was ok. But it sure would have been better if I could tape the game play; combine scenes (transition?) and then add audio to make an interesting video. I'm not a fan of those gameplay videos that just show someone adding logs to a structure for 30 minutes while talking about something else; or putting text overlay and only keeping it on screen for a nanosecond!
Looks like Adobe Photoshop might do the trick, but I'd like something cheaper (wouldn't we all?). I'll check avidemux Photoshop more closely. I'm not trying to avoid buying a product, but I'm also not trying to be a professional video maker. Any advice will be most appreciated.
I did record part of a game with XSplit and posted it on YouTube with pretty good quality; but it was one continuous tape; no title page. Video and Audio was ok. But it sure would have been better if I could tape the game play; combine scenes (transition?) and then add audio to make an interesting video. I'm not a fan of those gameplay videos that just show someone adding logs to a structure for 30 minutes while talking about something else; or putting text overlay and only keeping it on screen for a nanosecond!
Looks like Adobe Photoshop might do the trick, but I'd like something cheaper (wouldn't we all?). I'll check avidemux Photoshop more closely. I'm not trying to avoid buying a product, but I'm also not trying to be a professional video maker. Any advice will be most appreciated.
Simes
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https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/post-production-tools-you-can-use.234/ has some information on free video editing tools.