So I'm looking for a very basic program... freeware if available.

All I want to be able to do is slow down and increase speed of video with or without audio.

Trying to make some slow motion stuff...

I've tried windows movie maker but its either slow down half way, or double the speed... that's it... I want something that's a little bit more flexible.

Don't care about adding captions, all that jazz... that's all I want to be able to do.

Anybody have any suggestions?

you can get cinestream for cheap on ebay. A few years old, but very stable and easy to use

VirtualDub, it's free, very powerful, but hella hard to use if you don't know what you're doing.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

+1 on Virtualdub - there's a bit of a learning curve, but it's powerful and free. It makes sense when you think about it, but the secret tip is - if you're changing something with the audio (like sync) then audio has to be set to "Full Processing Mode" or whatever it's called, not "Direct Stream Copy" and the same goes for video

For speed, you're probably going to be looking at a Filter - since you're changing the video, you're going to have to set Video to Full Processing Mode and then it will let you use the Filters.

Also, if you don't have 800 gigabytes free, you'll want to use a codec for compression. I like Xvid for avis or Panasonic DV (it's free if you search for it) if I'm going to convert it to DVD. If you forget, you'll end up leaving for 30 minutes or an hour while it processes only to come back and find it crashed because you ran out of disk space. Uncompressed AVI of DVD quality uses up something like 2 gigabytes per minute.

What's really fun is if you run an uncompressed AVI in Windows, it'll tend to skip because it can't physically get the data into the buffers fast enough to display it in realtime.

+1 on Virtualdub - there's a bit of a learning curve, but it's powerful and free. It makes sense when you think about it, but the secret tip is - if you're changing something with the audio (like sync) then audio has to be set to "Full Processing Mode" or whatever it's called, not "Direct Stream Copy" and the same goes for video

For speed, you're probably going to be looking at a Filter - since you're changing the video, you're going to have to set Video to Full Processing Mode and then it will let you use the Filters.

Also, if you don't have 800 gigabytes free, you'll want to use a codec for compression. I like Xvid for avis or Panasonic DV (it's free if you search for it) if I'm going to convert it to DVD. If you forget, you'll end up leaving for 30 minutes or an hour while it processes only to come back and find it crashed because you ran out of disk space. Uncompressed AVI of DVD quality uses up something like 2 gigabytes per minute.

What's really fun is if you run an uncompressed AVI in Windows, it'll tend to skip because it can't physically get the data into the buffers fast enough to display it in realtime.

What the fuck do you know about this, loser?

You act like you get paid for it!

I do. :D

I actually use Vegas at work, but I keep a copy of Virtualdubmod on the computer at work because you cannot BEAT setting up 24 videos in a row for a batch convert and coming back in a few hours to have all the work done.

I've used virtualdub before to compress movies for my pocket pc when I had one, and for cutting and splicing... but have never used any of the filters... I have virtualdub and NEVER even knew it did that... now I have to go and look through it again.

how abouts a good freeware program to convert wmv to mpeg or avi?

I FINALLY found a freeware program, BUT when I convert a movie it looks like it tried to do it in 256 colors or some shit... no compression either. Full 640x480 25mbps avi.

You're going to have trouble getting a good one like that because WMV and MPEG both have licensing fees for the use of their codecs. The easiest way is to run like an Avisynth and copy the video stream to an avi.

hey Richter - know anything about Avid? Mine crashes on "initializing Audio". Avid's tech support tells me to install the latest nVidia video drivers (to fix an audio .dll problem?) which would be great if I was using an nVidia video card, but I'm running ATI.