Re: Newbie video editing question
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been
> running Debian since Bo.
>
> I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will
> degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any more (or
> VCRs?) I expect it will be difficult to repair my two VCRs when they
> start to die on me. So I want to convert my analog tapes to digital
> files while I can and write them out to DVD.
>
> When I mentioned this to a friend, he pulled out a WinTV card, using a
> Hauppauge PVR-250. Are there drivers for this in the standard kernel
> tree, or do I need to get them from somewhere?
>
This works in Lenny and is auto-detected.
> Also, what is the best capture and editing software for a newbie with
> minimal needs. No flame wars, please. I know that Cinelerra is
> available, but I don't know what else there is, or how easy they are to
> use. For now all I really need to do is capture the analog signal from
> a VCR and save it to a file. Then I want to edit out the commercials,
> possibly combine multiple files, and then save the resulting file to a
> dvd iso that can be mounted directly and played back, or written to a
> dvd.
>
This will work to capture from your input card:
cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
I think it defaults to capturing from the coax input. You can try the
various ivtv commands to change that.
Pitivi and Devede are pretty decent and simple for editing and authoring
dvd's. So are most of the packages others have already mentioned.
-Rob
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