Video importing and/or editing?

[Steven Willoughby]

Michael Moore wrote:
> Anyone done any video importing and/or editing under Ubuntu?  I have
> an RCA-->firewire (dv) converter, and want to burn DVDs of our old
> home videos.
>
> Cinelerra might be a bit of overkill for my needs. I am pretty much
> just going to dump the tapes straight to DVD. No editing, though
> minimal DVD menus might be nice.
>
A few years ago I used kino to do DV -> SVCD.  I'm pretty sure it's what 
you're looking for.

Steven