video conversion / editing

[NoOp]

On 12/19/2009 10:17 AM, Alan McKay 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
> 

The next release of Ubuntu (lucid 10.04) will include PiTiVi by default.
You may want to go ahead and give that a try:

$ sudo apt-get install pitivi

You'll then find it in Applications|Sound...|PiTiVi...

Info is here:
http://www.pitivi.org/
  http://www.pitivi.org/?go=features
   http://www.pitivi.org/?go=documentation
<http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-edit-videos-using-pitivi-on-ubuntu-linux-285435/>

Disclaimer: I have it installed but have not used it yet, except for
testing to see if an .avi plays in preview mode (it does).