Recommendations on software to edit and/or convert movies?

[Mohamad Faizul]

how about handbrake ?
On Sep 13, 2009, at 3:49 PM, p.echols at comcast.net wrote:

>
> ----- "Fred Roller" <froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
>
>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>> I've got a "footage" from a couple of digital cameras, and i want to
>> make
>>> sense of this stuff.
>>> One produces .avi files, which work fine when I send them to family
>> members
>>> with Windoze machines.
>>>
> <snip>
>>> Can someone recommend conversion software, and maybe editing?
>>>
>>> ++ kevin
>>>
>>>
>> Don't do a lot of video but tried my hand at a few.  Kino was the
>> simplest and most intuitive software to me.  And it is in the repos:
>>
>>    sudo apt-get install kino
>>
>> Liked it because the editing, like I think you are suggesting, was
>> easy
>> to cut the unwanted parts.  Title function was nice too.  The  
>> software
>>
>> imports and converts everything to .dv and exports to any number of
>> video types.  Again, pure amateur point of view.
>>
>
> A lot of folks like kino.  When I first tried it, I was not willing  
> to wait for it to convert a smallish .mp4 to a very large .dv, edit  
> the footage, then convert back.  Maybe it is faster in the initial  
> conversion now.
>
> If you just want to cut down to size and convert, you might try  
> avidemux.  Also in the repos.  It does a solid job, but is not a non  
> linear editor like kino.  Avidemux also requires a bit of fiddling  
> to get the right settings to export.  Fortunately, once configured  
> for the output you want, you can save the settings and reuse.  It  
> can also filter for color shift, sharpness, and a number of other  
> things.
>
> For straight conversion, w/o edits there are several CLI tools.   
> ffmpeg and mencoder come to mind.
>
> I use all of them for one thing or another.
>
> Cheers
> --P.E
>
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