Best (simplest to use) editing software for table tennis matches?

[vvk1]

Agreed.
Betterplay.ai plus OpenShot is fine for us tt players. The combination is particularly useful for editing local league matches.
Be aware that, basically, Betterplay.ai can't be used for matches recorded at tournaments. It gets confused by the audio from the pinging and ponging from all the matches going on.
Davinci Resolve is really for people who spend a lot of their weekly time on editing. The learning/time curve is a lot and your brain will need constant attention and update. That is, it's designed for professional filmmaker and editors not tt players who do a small of filming.

My bad . bp.ai was (at least initially) trained on Barnet local league matches from my YT channel which mostly took place on quiet late Thursday evenings at the BTTC.

 

[Tinykin]

I use Davinci Resolve and it took me 3min to learn/set up. Now I just have to click 1 to cut and 4 to remove the part I cut.

Seriously, I'm very envious of your natural ability to easily pick up this computer software stuff.

 

[vvk1]

If you're not afraid of command line, all this becomes quite trivial with MP4Box or ffmpeg:

# extract video segment from one timestamp to another (timestamp format hh:mm:ss):
MP4Box -splitf 0:15-5:27 a.mp4

The above command will produce a_T05.15_T5.27.mp4 video containing video segment from 15s to 5min 27s

# join several videos together into b.mp4
MP4Box -cat a_T13.20_T13.37.mp4 -cat a_T19.12_T19.27.mp4 [and so on, as many "-cat <video file>" pairs as necessary ] -force-cat b.mp4

 

[Vrael]

Seriously, I'm very envious of your natural ability to easily pick up this computer software stuff.

just need to find a youtube tutorial and change settings for 2 actions . I don't think it is something special. I believe it was ripple cut and ripple delete or something like that. I am sure there are many advanced options, but they are not needed if we are talking just about cutting time between points. Other good thing is that it is popular program, so there are a lot of tutorials. Once had to blur someone and also just followed tutorial (now don't even remember how it was done)

 

[suds79]

So I used to use open shot. Then my teenager, who is probably among other kids who do video editing more often, told me about capcut. It ticks all the boxes in what I'm looking for.
- Free
- Good in-built tools to make your video look good
- Easy to pick up.
- no water mark or anything like that on your final export.

They have a mobile version but I've always used the desktop PC version and I've made family vacation videos as well as a couple of my matches with a score overlay. It's really easy to use so the OP should check it out.

 

[boy]

Hello everyone, I like table tennis too. I am building a tool to automatically cut table tennis videos. I would be grateful if anyone could share your needs so that I can build something more useful.

After seeing all the comments, a simple video editing software with two buttons seems to be good enough. I have several questions:

1. Is it better on mobile or PC? Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, or web? Which platform is preferred, and why?
2. Does the video editor need transition effects, or is simply concatenating all the clips together fine?
3. What is the main use case for cutting match videos? Personally, if I can quickly view the match between me and my friend, I think it would be a cool experience and make me more willing to review my matches.
4. If you have time, I hope you can tell me more about what your dream table tennis video app would be like!

Thanks a lot! While I can’t guarantee anything for now, I will share my progress if I successfully publish any cool table tennis tool.

 

[boy]

My bad . bp.ai was (at least initially) trained on Barnet local league matches from my YT channel which mostly took place on quiet late Thursday evenings at the BTTC.

btw, I am tuning the model, do you know are there any labeled data for me to train with? thank you.