Video editing in lInux

Kjel Anderson kjel.anderson at gmail.com
Wed Sep 27 11:24:00 EDT 2006


At least I am not alone in this. I am going to keep working on it. I'll post
if I make any progress.

Kjel

On 9/27/06, Brian Chabot <brian at datasquire.net> wrote:
>
> Kjel Anderson wrote:
>
> > Another question: I have a digital camera that will record fairly nice
> > video,
> > but unfortunately it records it as an *.mov file. I figured out how to
> > use
> > mencoder to change it to a variety of different formats. What I would
> > like to
> > do is to be able to edit several of these clips together. I tried to
> > get Kino
> > to do it by converting them to *.avi and then importing them. Kino
> > pukes on
> > that without a sensible error message. Does anyone know of an
> application
> > that works fairly well for doing this?
>
>
> Not in Linux.  It's EXTREMELY frustrating.
>
> I got a cam a couple weeks ago and I've tried every Linux video editor I
> could install without too much hassle.  My cam saves as MP4 files with a
> .asf extension.  I can convert them (I am not on that system and can't
> remember what I used), split them if I know what point to split at, and
> play them fine.  Editing?
> Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaa.  A-hem.
>
> At least the file transfer works out of the box.
>
> MPlayer and Xine read and play the videos just fine.
> Cinelerra thinks MPEG-4's and DivX files are BLANK if it recognizes them
> at all.
> Kdenlive (not updated since what? 2003?) thinks my files are blank, too.
> Kfilm dumps core on file load.
> LiVES - GUI makes no sense to me. Pretty, but senseless.
> LVE: Roll a d6. 1-2 crash. 3-6 unrecognized format.
> Pitivi loads the file, but thinks it's blank.
>
> I had high hopes for Cinelerra.  I really did.
>
> At the moment, I am forced by the sorry state of Linux software that is
> way out of my league to fix to use Windows.  I'd use a Mac with iMovie,
> but I can't afford even a Mac Mini at the moment.
>
> If anyone does find something that works, PLEASE post it here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
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