editing Digital Video, authoring DVD's

[Geoff Purchase]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:12 +1100, David wrote:
> 
>>I need to shoot some dv, edit it, and then make it playable on a domestic 
>>DVD player. I don't need an exotic menu - just something basic and user 
>>friendly.
> 
> 
> "kino" appears appears to do exactly what you need... retrieve movies
> from DV cameras via firewire, do some basic editing, then save it in DVD
> format.
> 
> I also just discovered two very nice/promising video editing
> applications for Gnome today, "diva" and "pititv", but it looks like
> they won't be ready/mature enough before at least 6 months, whereas Kino
> looks quite nice/usable at present.
> Haven't actually used it since I don't have the spare dosh for a digital
> video camera sadly...
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
> --
> Vince
> 
> 
I haven't played with it yet but have you looked at cinelerra

http://cinelerra.org/

Geoff