[jiblet]

Is there a shareware video editor that allows you to splice together existing video clips? I thought iMovie would allow this, but it won't open my quicktime or mpeg clips.

If there's not any shareware, is there any reasonably priced editor that could do this short of buying Adobe Premiere?

[CaseCom]

Transferring to the Multimedia forum...

[Feathers]

iMovie ONLY handles 720x480(NTSC) or 720x576(PAL) DV Streams, period.
You can convert other formats to this using QTPro but it's a long way round.

Everytime somebody asks for an inexpensive editor for the editing of Non-DV material, I recommend buying the Interex XLR8 Interview 2.0 which is a USB Video Capture Device that comes free with StrataStudio 4.5 DV which is excellent value for money at about $85. A lot less than buying full blown Premiere AND you get the USB Video Capture device that allows you to get analog video into your Mac withoug having to get a darn DV camcorder.

Also, MPEG's don't edit very well because of the nature of the compression. If you don't cut on an I-Frame you will get a glitch or just black frames for about half a dowen frames. Convert (Export) the mpeg material to MJPEG in Quicktime PRO and then cut the MJPEG material in Quicktime.

You know Quicktime itself is quite a powerful little editor itself when you get used to it. $29 for the Pro licence is well worth it and $20 on the Visual Quickstart Guide to QT4 Pro is money well spent!

[jiblet]

Hmm, sweet, thanks for the help.