[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Editing video



On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:40:40PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> Hi group,
> 
> My father has recorded some video on his camera and he wants to edit
> this on his computer. The camera doesn't have digital video output or
> something like that and his box doesn't have a capturing device. But, he
> has a dvd recorder and has recorded the video on dvd. Now, what can he
> do with the VOB files? With dvdrip and transcode you can make an mpeg
> stream, but how to edit this? Linux Video Studio can only handle
> capture devices it seems, and glav is not really what he is looking for.
> It works, but that is all. Kino seems nice, and can load digital video
> files from disk, but I tried to transcode a small piece of a dvd movie
> to digital video using transcode with the ffmpeg (dvvideo), dv and dvraw
> modules and kino messes up the video and audio. It loads and plays it,
> but not correctly.
> 
> Does anyone know of good software (with scene detection) to edit regular
> vob or mpeg streams? Or does anyone know how to transcode to video that
> kino reads correctly?

I'd recommend ffmpeg. It converts between gazillions of video formats,
including MPEG, QuickTime, AVI, and my personal favorite, PNGs with a
naming convention. (like movie0.png, movie1.png, ..., movie99.png). 



Reply to: