Video Cut with Ubuntu

[Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni]

Hi,

for our Youth Center [1] we want to buy a computer for video cut. It
should have Firewire, an analog to digital converter card with an
"mpeg-chip" to convert old videotapes to videofiles and a dvd burner.

I have some question and hope some of you have experience with similiar
stuff and could help us.

1) Is there an hardware-information website, like linuxprinting, where i
could find out, which cards and chips works with linux/ubuntu?

2) I know "kino", is this the software of first choice or are other
programms for working with videos you suggest.

3) Are all DV-Cameras with Firewire compatible with Linux or are the
problems to copy the video data to computer.

4) Is something else i should take care, when i buy or setting up a
computer for this tasks.

Thanks,

Keywan

P.S.: I just want to use free software, except codecs (but prefer free
codecs)

[1] http://www.az-muelheim.de

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