<div dir="ltr">Kino is pretty easy to work with. Feed it a dv file (or capture from a video camera) , edit it up to suit and paste it all back together and export as an mpeg or quicktime. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/29 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dkg@fifthhorseman.net">dkg@fifthhorseman.net</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hey folks--<br>
<br>
one of my clients is a high school that has a two-week-long schoolwide<br>
project focussed on the political cycle coming up soon. A group of<br>
students (and a few teachers) will be studying TV advertisements, and<br>
would like to create their own as a project.<br>
<br>
We have aging Mac OS X machines (powerpc) and much more modern<br>
hardware running Ubuntu (Hardy). I'd like to support them in terms of<br>
making simple pseudo TV ads, targetting a 30-second duration. These<br>
users won't have the time to learn an really powerful or complicated<br>
tool, but i'd like to give them a simple one to make simple ads as<br>
they learn their way around the political process. Does anyone have<br>
suggestions for software (preferably free software) that i should<br>
focus on to help them do this?<br>
<br>
I'd be fine with something as basic as, say, OpenOffice Impress, if it<br>
had the ability to do well-timed audio/visual transitions, but a more<br>
video-focused tool might be preferable, if a simple and functional one<br>
exists.<br>
<br>
Any experience with this kind of project? Any suggestions on tools?<br>
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