Video editing in lInux

[Andrew W. Gaunt]

There is something named Jahshaka that has glanced my interest.
I've no personal experience with it though.....

I occasionally use my computer to do edits of video and would also
be interested in a linux solution that just works. For the moment, I
use adobe premiere since it mostly "just works" I need to be able
to concentrate on my content and not get distracted by quirks of the
the tools.

http://www.jahshaka.org/

-Andrew Gaunt

Kjel Anderson wrote:

> 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 
> <mailto: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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