[ubuntu-uk] Openshot video editing software Karmic Koala

[David King]

I have installed the .deb for Openshot in Ubuntu 9.04 and it worked okay 
without messing anything else up. So the .deb seems to be safe even if 
the PPA is not. Although I have not tried it in Ubuntu 9.10 yet (I have 
installed it as a virtual machine in VirtualBox for testing purposes 
before I consider upgrading).

However, I found Openshot to be too limited for video editing and not 
working well. I also had problems with other linux video editors, so I 
continue to use Sony Vegas 6 in a Windows XP virtual machine.

I wish that either Sony Vegas would work with Crossover/Wine, or else 
someone would create a full-featured linux video editor similar to 
Vegas, preferably able to import Vegas project files.

David King


Liam Wilson wrote:
> I fell into this trap with Openshot, the PPA messes all kinds of stuff
> up, I can't remember how I fixed it, but it did involve uninstalling
> OpenShot. I remember tryig to play the Original Godzilla when it
> happened. I was sad :(
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> I don't think the .deb messes with the shizzle, but I wouldn't try it. -
> Better safe than sorry.
>
> Liam.
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> On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:25 +0000, Tim Dobson wrote:
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>> Simon Osborne wrote:
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>>> Yes. It upgrades libavcodec to a version which is incompatible with
>>> gstreamer and VLC, along with other things. It can be fixed by forcing
>>> a downgrade on libavcodec to the version supplied with Karmic.
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>> I'm not on karmic yet but this is an interesting point. Currently 
>> KDEnlive (my preferred video editing suite) can't deal with AAC audio by 
>> default due to some broken libavcodec package as I understand.
>> As my (stupid) video camera outputs h.264 + aac this is somewhat 
>> frustrating.
>>
>> Anyway, hopefully this will all get smoothed out! :)
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> P.s. If you know and cameras that output to theora & ogg or dirac, 
>> please do let me know!
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