Video editing in lInux

[Kjel Anderson]

Thanks for the information about the .MOV files. I hate that it isn't
something a little more universal. I'll give ffmpeg a try.

Kjel

On 9/27/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 27, 2006, at 10:35, Kjel Anderson wrote:
>
> > but unfortunately it records it as an *.mov file.
>
> do we know what the codec is?  .mov (assuming QuickTime) is a container
> format, can have lots of different things inside of it.
>
> >  I figured out how to use
> > mencoder to change it to a variety of different formats. ...Kino pukes
> > on
> > that without a sensible error message.
>
> Were you able to verify the conversion?   That is do we have a Kino bug
> or is the output file from mencoder no good?
>
> I've had best luck with ffmpeg.  It's a bitch to figure out the options
> that actually work.  Here's my avi2dv script:
>
>    ffmpeg -i $1.avi -s 720x576 -r 25 -y -hq -s ntsc -r ntsc -ac 2 -ar
> 48000 $1.dv
>
> The man pages only get you so far - some of these options were from
> message boards and experimentation.
>
> -Bill
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