need video production advice - not devel, but certainly a user case

[Lukas Sabota]

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 12:40 -0600, john e wrote:
>  My problem is this:
> A local church whom I am genetically attached (the pastor is my aunt,
> I'm an atheist who is the family's alpha geek) would like to produce
> DVDs at a nominal price ($10ish I think) and they want me to produce
> them.
> 
> I have already produced a website for them
> (http://doorofhopechurch.net), and using past experience as a guide I
> expect payment to be around a 12 pack of mountain dew per 100 hours.
> I'm not complaining, just noting the lack of cash to emphasize that
> new hardware is out of the question. (the church is new and numbers in
> the tens)
> 
> I have access to a mini-dv camcorder (no mic jack - arg!) and a
> windows machine (not mine) that has a firewire port for importing
> video. Once the raw footage is on HDD, transfer to my kubuntu machine
> is no problem (be it 100s or 1000s or 10,000s of MB).
> 
> My job would be to add a menu and edit the actual video and add text
> overlays and create the master dvd image(s).
> 
> Any software (gpl compatible 100% preferred) and technique advice
> would be greatly welcome.
> 
> 
> Throw me some good links please (/me crosses fingers)
> 
> John Everett
> 
Ubuntu-devel is a very high traffic mailing list right now.  This list
should be used for issues pertaining to direct Ubuntu development.
Would you mind reposting this in the ubuntu-users list?  Thanks for your
cooperation :)

God bless,
Lukas