Re: Editing video
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:29:29PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote:
> At 19:40 26/08/2004, you 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?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >David
>
> I've no experience with it under Debian, but Cinelerra
> http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 is a pretty full-featured video
> editing tool for Linux, although it's not the most stable or user friendly
> of beasts. I've used it for muxing a few different video streams together
> and add a few titles/subs to form a continuous segue thing. IIRC it's all
> statically linked, so you should be able to install from RPM with alien,
> but they now actually give a source ball with makefiles (before, they used
> to say it was too hard to compile from source).
>
> Don't be put off by the minimum spec BTW ;) Just don't expect it to run
> fast on your old 486...!
I'll look into that one, thanks. I understand it is supposed to be quite
a professional application?
Thanks,
David
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