VideoReDo owner passed away, product ceased, seeking alternatives ?

[Alwyn]

Can we please stay on-topic? This topic will come in handy if someone wants to gauge the interest in VRD. Random discussions on various video problems will cloud the primary purpose of the topic.

[Marayong]

Try this website: https://videobolt.net/simple-video-tools/reverse

Drag & drop your video to where it says to on the webpage. Once it has uploaded you will get a "Reverse & download" button. It will then download.

I tried it with a 5 min video and it worked fine. No need to sign in or register.

I've no idea how many times you can use the site without registering, but I was able to do two videos.

The reversed videos played fine with both video and audio being reversed.

[Bridgy]

Never mind

[Bridgy]

Bridgy. I have no need for 4K, so I stayed with the non-pro version. Neither of the tvs are 4K compatible, nor any of the cabling and my eyesight is less that ideal and any benefits of 4K would be lost on me. Ditto my wife's eyesight is less than ideal. Dunno offhand if the non-pro version offers HEVC support or not, but that also comes with hardware compatibility issues (ie the tv). Both of our tvs are old (over 15 years), but are still working fine and don't have a single dropped pixel ... so why replace them given our eyesight isn't good enuf to justify the cost of going up to 4K. I also do my video recording with a capture card and higher bitrates are a lot more demanding on the computer. The card I have supports up to about 25mb/s bitrate. More than good enough with my eyesight.

Ok well i had no idea you was still working with very old technology, and still have old TV's in your home, but, 4k is wonderful for those with poorer eyesight like i have, especially for reading, however having a 65" 4k samsung tv in my lounge room and a 75" in out theatre room absolutely does wonders, no need for the glasses unless there is translated sub titles on the screen that are too small for me to read properly.

I shoot video every day, i am the go to videographer for my whole family for family related stuff, i still shoot weddings for anyone that needs it, and so i was always going to have a need to move with the times, and 4k is about where i will stay, i have a camera that records 6k and 8k, but VRD does not like it, cutting 6k or 8k video files on a time line is impossible, not sure if TMPGEnc Smart Renderer 6 and Mastering Works7 can handle it, and smart render them as well.

[Bridgy]

Can we please stay on-topic? This topic will come in handy if someone wants to gauge the interest in VRD. Random discussions on various video problems will cloud the primary purpose of the topic.

Ok i apologize for any off topic stuff that i have might have posted, i will try to stay ON TOPIC from now on and post other non related stuff elsewhere.

[Bridgy]

Hi, what is the best forum section to get help on cropping black bars from the sides of several 1080p videos using VRD, or another tool if VRD cannot do it properly or accurately.

Only asking because i have never cropped videos in VRD before.

Cheers

[Marayong]

In theory I assume you could go to the videohelp forum main page and create a new discussion .. the downside is that I doubt many VRD users regularly check that page and you'd have to wait for google etc to index your post to maybe get a reply. Assuming you can work out how to create a new forum topic. There's no "create new post" link on the forum home page.

In answer to your question ... the non-pro version does allow you to crop videos. Primarily aimed at removing the black pillars of 4:3 videos recorded off a 16:9 source, but a quick browse of the VRD help indicates the amount of cropping is adjustable, both sides and top/bottom. Details can be found by searching for 'crop' in the VRD help. I have VideoReDo TVSuite 6. Don't know if this option is available in other versions of VRD. I've never used it myself, so I'm limited to what's in the VRD help. There are even some preset crop options.

[october262]

Hi, what is the best forum section to get help on cropping black bars from the sides of several 1080p videos using VRD, or another tool if VRD cannot do it properly or accurately.

Only asking because i have never cropped videos in VRD before.

Cheers

see this thread - https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/345410-Crop-Remove-black-bars-without-re-encoding
see posts #17 & posts #47 on page 2
and this reddit thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/mkvtoolnix/comments/147wa73/remove_black_bars_without_losing_quality/

[Bridgy]

In theory I assume you could go to the videohelp forum main page and create a new discussion .. the downside is that I doubt many VRD users regularly check that page and you'd have to wait for google etc to index your post to maybe get a reply. Assuming you can work out how to create a new forum topic. There's no "create new post" link on the forum home page.

In answer to your question ... the non-pro version does allow you to crop videos. Primarily aimed at removing the black pillars of 4:3 videos recorded off a 16:9 source, but a quick browse of the VRD help indicates the amount of cropping is adjustable, both sides and top/bottom. Details can be found by searching for 'crop' in the VRD help. I have VideoReDo TVSuite 6. Don't know if this option is available in other versions of VRD. I've never used it myself, so I'm limited to what's in the VRD help. There are even some preset crop options.

i just had a go at cropping using my VRD Pro, it is rather strange in the way it works, so i just gave up, i will try the 2 links from october262

see this thread - https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/345410-Crop-Remove-black-bars-without-re-encoding
see posts #17 & posts #47 on page 2
and this reddit thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/mkvtoolnix/comments/147wa73/remove_black_bars_without_losing_quality/

Thanks, i will take a look.

I did create a new Thread in the Editing Section, no replies so far.

I tried to keep this new Question out of this Thread so it does not go off topic again, don't want to ruffle any more feathers in here.

EDIT: seems like that guy in your Videohelp Thread link was trying to do what i need, but most of what was posted made no sense, it ended up in a bit of a crap fight i think, so it was closed.

Often happens in these forums when you have so many experts, and i noticed that even they can't even agree on a lot of stuff.

This is my new Thread.

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/415869-Cropping-Black-Bars-from-1080p-video-files

[Bridgy]

Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone has tried this Smart Media Cutter tool that i came across just now.

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/415875-Smart-Media-Cutter

I was in the following Forum where i was looking to find out if there is a way to add marker points in segments that i cut and joined using Losslesscut.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videoredo/comments/1f71j0s/im_trying_to_build_a_modern_versio..._of_videoredo/

I never heard about this new tool before, so i am going to have a play with version 1.0 and see what it can and can't do as a comparison to VRD Pro.

https://smartmediacutter.com/2024/09/15/version-1-0-launch/

Recently i have had to resort to using Losslescut as i have been getting so many 4k/60p HEVC files at like 144Mbps and my VRD Pro timeline is having issues with Seeking frames, which i didn't realize was going to be an issue going into the future.

Losslesscut only seems to work flawlessly for me with my 4k/60 HEVC files when cuts are made at keyframes only, but that does not concern me as a keyframe on a 4k/60p video file appears to be every 1 second or 60 frames, and i can live with that for the editing that i do, however i have not yet been able to find out how to get Losslesscut to leave a marker in the video files where segments were cut and joined, which VRD was able to do.

Obviously i still use VRD Pro to re-encode my files to other formats, but i might be lost right now without Losslesscut to trim my videos.

If anyone tries this new Smart Media Cutter tool then please post your report here, i am keen to see what others think of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXGuu4yMOQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBDNVxydB4

I bet this guy who created Smart Media Cutter cops a heap of flack from certain members of this forum, for me, i personally want another tool that not only hase frame accurate cutting and joining, i also want it to output to other formats using a set of decent pre-set formats just as VRD has, but it seems like that day is probably still a long way off, sadly.

[Baldrick]

It's called Smart Media Cutter in my software section. No I have no tried it.

[Bridgy]

I just tried it with my 4k/60p HEVC video files (60Mbps and 144Mbps) and unfortunately the playback of these files in the preview player are almost as laggy as they are in my VRD Pro, so Losslesscut wins out here for me just on playback.

Seeking is also very laggy, i skip just 1 frame forward and it takes a few seconds to skip to that frame in the preview pane, if i try to skip backwards, the frames sometimes ship forward.

I also find it very confusing how to set the cut points, there seems to be no buttons to click to set these points.

It would be nice to have at least 3 seek buttons with different time frames to choose from.

Will continue my testing, but for my files, it doesn't look good so far, and i doubt that anyone will ever build an all in one tool that does what VRD Pro does for me (and others) but i live in hope, Losslesscut so far seems to be the only tool that can handle playback and cutting/joining of my 4k/60p HEVC files flawless without any lagging, even if it is on keyframes only.