[ale] Video editing under Linux

[Geoffrey]

tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> No.2 daughter graduates this spring from college out on the left coast. 
> Due to prior commitments, distance, age, and two other graduations in the 
> family occuring at the same time, many family members will not be able to 
> make the trip. Unfortunately, many of the missing will want at least 
> pictures, if not half way decent videos with pictures, commentary and so 
> forth. I have a Sony digital camcorder, and have access to two Sony still 
> cameras, so acquisition of the raw footage shouldn't be a problem. (Memo 
> to self - need a stronger zoom lens for the camcorder). The challenge will 
> be reducing it to a dvd or vcr or both as the family has a wide range of 
> electronic gadget currency. 
> 
> I could get Apple's iMovie, and work on her mac, although that computer is 
> almost certain to disappear from me quickly.
> 
> I'd rather work under Linux, in large measure because the hardware is 
> mine, and isn't going away 8-). Does anybody on this list have experience 
> with such projects under Linux have some guidence or wisdom they wish to 
> share?

I've played with Kino a bit, seems to work well.  There was a very good 
article in LJ that takes you from camera to dvd, but I can't recall the 
month, I'll see if I can locate it.

> 
>>From my initial reading, it looks like Kino can handle editing if a way of 
> importing jpeg pictures is available. Cinelerra will also edit to a 
> fair-thee-well, but with the potiential of a steep learning curve.
> 
> I've got something like two months to figure this out, so there really 
> isn't a rush here.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey