CLIP! Video Editor

I use my ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro video card to capture video to my PC hard drive. I use a copy of AVI_IO for this, and find it pretty reliable. I used to use an Iomega Buz, but had to retire it when I upgraded to Windows XP, as there are no XP drivers for the Buz.

I use the Morgan Motion JPEG (MJPEG) codec to encode the video. This provides good quality, and is ideal for editing.

Once I have captured some video, I find assembling the rough cuts into a polished movie to be very time consuming activity. With the backlog of home videos in my cupboard I thought I probably would have retired before I finished sorting them out. On my old machine, rendering could take up to 30 times real time.

The solution to the problem was to write an application that was less feature-rich than a full video editor, but easier and quicker to use for assembling captures together. Thus Clip! was born.

The philosophy behind Clip! is that it works by copying frames of video directly from the source file(s) to the destination, frame by frame. It does not do any rendering of the clips. Therefore it is quite fast. I also designed the editing interface such that it is quick and easy to be frame accurate.

Clip! is only suitable for editing AVI files, i.e. Video for Windows files, and will not work with all codecs. It works in situations where every frame is a key frame.It does not support MPEG editing.

I use it all the time for quick cuts to the source material. For polished productions, I import the resultant files into my copy of Media Studio Pro.

To give you an idea what Clip! is all about, you can see the help file for Clip! by clicking here.

You may download it by clicking here Once you have downloaded it, unzip the contents to a directory and then just run Clip.exe. It is offered free and without warranty of any kind.