dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...
Dear Debianists,
I thought about buying a camcorder to make some films for a project at work.
I then began to wonder about using video editing software. I thought it
would be useful to add subtitles to some footage and make diagrams and other
visual aids that I could add to conventional footage. It would also tidy up
the footage I got.
i.e. nothing too complex or fancy, but useful in my case.
Here are the dumb questions:
I use an AMD64 Sempron 3200 box with 512 MB of RAM. I have an 80 GB ATA
drive in it. At the moment it uses on board graphics.
It is running Debian Etch 4.0 r0 AMD 64 official release.
If I would think of doing something with a camcorder would you recommend
upgrading with e.g. more RAM and a graphics card?
There seem to be different kinds of graphics cards AGP and PCI or something.
What is the difference between the two?
I also noticed that there is a distribution based Debian called LIVES that
is supposed to be set up for video editing. But it didn't seem to offer a
way to port the video editing featues on to regular Debian (e.g. Etch)
itself.
There are also programs such as cinelerra and LIVE and things like Blender
that could be used to edit camcorder footage and enhance it.
In Etch itself some of these programs seem to have been made into packages.
But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package that combines them all into
one grand editing suite....
What would people recommend for a video editing set up in Etch these days?
Is there a Debian video user list?
End of dumb questions.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
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