video conversion / editing

[Steve]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:17:05 -0000, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> So I've found something I really miss from windows, and it won't run
> in my VM (though I am going to try messing with VM settings).  Windows
> Movie Maker complains within my VM that my video card will not support
> it.
>
> Anyway, naturally, I'd much rather do this on Linux.
>
> Some googling got me on Kino - and well it seems really clunky.   It
> wants to convert all the AVI files from my camera to .dv, before it
> will even touch them.  And this takes a long time.   With windows
> movie maker I could drop all my videos onto the storyboard in a
> second, and then start editing from there.
>
> I then did some googling thinking maybe I had to convert those AVIs
> first to something more Linux friendly.   I hit upon ffmpeg which
> seems to do everything under the sun, but of course like many Linux
> apps the man page seems to assume I already have a PhD in video file
> formats.   I cannot make heads nor tails out of it all.   I've tried a
> few things to no avail.
>
> Any pointers out there?
>
> thanks,
> -Alan
>
winff was mentioned in an earlier thread (that I can’t find at the mo’)

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Steve