kdenlive and avchd

[Asmo Koskinen]

I have now one of those "prosumer" Full HD avchd camcorders - Canon HFS100.

I did install almost everything from svn, because I needed very bleeding 
egde tools for avchd. But there are good howtos for that.

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studio at ubuntu-studio:~/Bin$ x264 --version
x264 0.68.1185 2956905
built on Jul 24 2009, gcc: 4.3.3

studio at ubuntu-studio:~/Bin$ ffmpeg --version
FFmpeg version SVN-r19505, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
   configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-pthreads 
--enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora 
--enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab
   libavutil     50. 3. 0 / 50. 3. 0
   libavcodec    52.32. 0 / 52.32. 0
   libavformat   52.36. 0 / 52.36. 0
   libavdevice   52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
   libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
   built on Jul 24 2009 13:39:03, gcc: 4.3.3
ffmpeg: missing argument for option '--version'

studio at ubuntu-studio:~/Bin$ kdenlive --version
Qt: 4.5.1
KDE: 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2)
Kdenlive: 0.7.5 (rev. 3762)
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But it is very good to know that you can quite safely buy an avchd 
camcorder beside good ol' minidv camcorder (dvgrab and kino).

And kdenlive/ffmpeg make good job when you like to shrink something for 
the web (blip.tv etc).

You can shrink 30Mt/20s (mts) to 3Mt (mp4/aac) and it still looks decent 
on the web.
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This very new video area is very important to the Ubuntu Studio, equal 
to the real time kernel, I think...

And I hope that Karmic will support "prosumer" avchd camcorders out of 
the box...

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.