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Question

looking for a program that won't crash while splicing video

May 3, 2013 6:19AM PDT

I took about 14hours of video (dashcam) while on my drive thru Ecuador. want the best and easiest to use program to pick out snippets from my video files and put together a reasonable length film. I want to pull out 5 mins here and 7 mins there and string together. tried the free realplayer and Windows movie maker and freemake video all seem to crash

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My video edit machine does not crash
May 4, 2013 2:12AM PDT

But the app would crash on another PC so using that as an example I rarely find a video editor crash to be more than something like a CODEC issue.

-> There is no editor that uses CODECs that is crash free.

Also, there is no one it seems that will write all you need to know in this small box. Even I will just note the CODEC issue and members have to dig in and learn a lot more.

That's a real downside for your casual video editor/user. And why they tend to go get an Apple for such work.
Bob

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Edit video
May 5, 2013 2:23AM PDT

Could I transfer these videos into my iPad and edit them there?

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Did you try to do that?
May 5, 2013 2:41AM PDT

The area of CODECs and more do upset folk that begin their video editing work. We know that machines can buckle under the strain of the work but I don't see what machine this is. So I'm left to comment about the most common crash I see.
Bob

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my system
May 5, 2013 5:58AM PDT

Bob I have a HP dv7 w/i7 2630qm 8 gig ram 64bit radeon 6770m 7200 rpm hd

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Yup. Crash city.
May 7, 2013 10:57AM PDT