video conversion / editing

[Steve Reilly]

Steve wrote:
> 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’)
> 

cinelerra, powerful, but if your use to windows its going to take some 
getting use to.

avidemux, simple to use



steve