If you’ve ever needed to play multiple videos at once GridPlayer is an ideal tool. For example, you might want to review footage from several camera angles of the same event. GridPlayer will let you do that, and it is free and simple to use.
GridPlayer displays videos in a side-by-side layout and supports simultaneous playback. The number of videos you can load depends on your computer’s graphics capabilities and screen size. I’ve successfully played up to eight videos at once.
Continue readingShotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It supports a wide range of formats and resolutions including 4K. Features include subtitles, timeline editing, multiple tracks, and various effects.[1]
Subtitling in Shotcut is the focus of this post. Through Shotcut’s subtitling feature, you can create video transcriptions. Shotcut can create, import, edit, export, render, and embed subtitles. Shotcut can also import subtitle formats such as: SRT, VTT, ASS, and SSA. It can translate from most languages to English, and do Speech to Text subtitling in different languages. To do this it uses Whisper.[2] Shotcut also has a Subtitle burn-in feature, meaning it can embed the subtitles into the video so that they are always visible and permanently a part of the file.
Continue readingWhat is De-Duplication?
De-duplication, or “de-duping,” is a way to clean up your files by finding and removing duplicates. Over time, computers and storage drives collect duplicate files—whether from downloads, backups, or shared folders. These duplicates take up space and make it harder to find what you are looking for. De-duping removes duplicate files and thus frees up storage space, speeds up searches and backups, and reduces clutter.
There are different types of duplicate files. Understanding the different types of duplicates is key to choosing the right approach.
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You are probably familiar with clicking on this traffic cone icon to play videos in your discovery, but did you know you can use it for more than that? The traffic cone icon is VLC media player[1], a free, open, and cross-source platform media player that clip and zoom in on videos in addition to playing many different types of media files.
This guide will walk you through how to clip videos and how to zoom in on videos step-by-step.
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Trial Director and VLC Media Player are completely different software programs, but both can play multimedia files. Trial Director is a courtroom presentation program. It has a built-in video and audio player and can also present documents. VLC Player is a video player and can only play videos.
If you are deciding between the two for an upcoming court hearing, here are some factors to consider.
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