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Originally Posted by Paul_Heery

The best free editor that I have found is PiTiVi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

Now, this runs on Linux. But, it is part of the default installation for Desktop | Ubuntu 10.10. If you want to try it, you can download and burn a Live CD for Ubuntu and boot your PC with it.

thanks for the suggestion but i am not learning a new OS just to edit a small video file

Originally Posted by rcecale

Have you tried separating the audio and video portions? Select the area you want to replace the video portion of and then right-click on it. There may be a menu item that lets you disjoin or separate the audio from the video. Then, simply remove the video and replace it with your own.


Another option may be to simply lay the "new" video on top of the "old" video...on a second layer. This way, the old video remains, but the new video is actually displayed on top of the old. Adobe Premiere Elements allows for both of these options, but then again, Elements is not a free application.


Good luck!

Randy

P.S. I do this sort of thing at work, so feel free to PM me if you have any other questions I may be able to help you with.

yes, i had both of those ideas. the one program i found that allowed me to split the audio and video still deleted the audio after doing the split.

as of now i have not found a free editor that will allow me multiple tracks, or instances of the same file. i spent many years as an audio eng for radio (protools, cakewalk, cep, etc etc), both terrestrial and online, so i am very familiar with the process and actually thought of that first. there maybe one out there but i just haven't found it yet.