Re: Movie problem
Hi Gene,
Camera is a Sony Digital Hi-8 Handycam, firewire interface.
Raw video is bulky as its a digital format, full resolution of
720x480. so its close to 6 gigabytes a running minute when
captured over the firewire port.
The only movie editor we have, that can also control this camera
for start/stop/capture etc, is kino. No other movie prosessing
utility we have has ever been in the same county as a firewire
port
Did you try dvgrab? https://packages.debian.org/en/wheezy/dvgrab
That’s what I use in commandline to capture Raw DV from my camera
over firewire. I have an oldish Panasonic DV camera. Dvgrab knows
perfectly how to start/stop it. I think dvgrab actually has some
link to kino or the other way round.
Web submission site at aliexpress.com has no clue what to do
with a a raw-dv file and refuses to take it as an
evidence submission.
Kino, as in running on a fully uptodate wheezy, apparently can't
find ffmpeg to make the conversion when I attempt to export
this 1 minutes worth of raw-dv format video. ffmpeg and all
its friends are installed. But in kino, the whole page of mpeg4
options is ghosted out.
To convert from DV to mpeg4 you can use avidemux. It’s available
on debian-multimedia.org, but it’s also easy to build it yourself
if you don’t want to add a repo. Instructions here:
http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.php?id=build:install_2.6
There’s an option to build directly a deb file. That’s what I use.
Note that currently only the Qt interface seems to work on Jessie
(GTK one segfaults at startup at least for me). Avidemux comes
with its own implementation of ffmpeg. IIRC you must build and
install its plugins too if you want mpeg4 conversion.
In avidemux, the settings I use to get an acceptable mp4 for the
web are: MPEG4-AVC for the video, AAC for audio, and of course MP4
as a container.
I hope it helps. Good luck!
Victor
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