video conversion / editing

[Karl F. Larsen]

NoOp wrote:
> 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).
> 
> 
> 
> 
	In the video the guy can't speak English! After about a 
minute you can get a word or two out of 10.

73 Karl


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