Recommendations on software to edit and/or convert movies?

[p.echols at comcast.net]

----- "Mohamad Faizul" <mypiju at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> how about handbrake ?

Interesting, I had not seen that one.  I may have to give it a try for my next project.

(Oh, by the way, when you top post you confuse folks who come in on the end of the conversation.  I fixed it for this post)

Thanks for the sugtgestion
--PE