video problems in Ubuntu

[Basil Chupin]

On 20/01/12 05:57, NoOp wrote:
> On 01/19/2012 06:19 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>> On 01/18/2012 10:51 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>> On 01/16/2012 01:48 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>>>> A little off topic.  The video is berkl line in 1927 with no sound. I
>>>> hae an elderly man almost 100 years old I put it on his daughters xp
>>>> machine and he is watching it and doing a voice over in German and
>>>> English and saving it so I can put it on the video. Its a great silent
>>>> movie I have some really fine music in the public domain for it and am
>>>> very excited about it.  This is really important to me.  I plan to put
>>>> it on Vimeo and Youtube ether in the public domain or creative commons.
>>>> There may not be anyone else left in the world that can remebr where and
>>>> what the scenes in the movie are and narriate it in both
>>>> languages.                                 Doug
>>> ...
>>> This one?
>>> http://www.archive.org/details/BerlinSymphonyofaGreatCity
>>>
>>>
>> Yes that is the video.  I have an old fellow who is narrating it.  He
>> recognizes a lot of what is on the video so can describe it I both
>> German and English.  It is a great historic piece and I would like to
>> put it all together. People who are old enough and lived there are very
>> few now. So from my point of view it is kind of important that it be
>> done.             Doug
>>
> OK. In Openshot I loaded up the 466.6MB AVI and I added a sound track;

Thanks for mentioning Openshot - I didn't know that it existed :-( . 
Looks quite good. I'll try it out later.

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BC

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