[GLLUG] Video Editing on Linux

[Charles Ulrich]

Thanks for passing this along Bill. It's a good read. Although I don't
have a digital video camera, I can sympathize with the guy. I nearly
went over the edge just trying to figure out how to get mencoder to
transcode video files from my DVR. Open source video software is very
powerful, but there are practically no newbie-friendly tools available
yet.

Charles

On Dec 13, 2007 10:45 AM, Marr <marr at copper.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 2:10pm, Clay Dowling wrote:
> > I bought my wife a digital video camera for Christmas this year, and I'm
> > expecting that one of her very first requests is going to be learning how
> > get it off the camera and edited down so that we can share video with
> > friends and family.  Unfortunately most of the Linux resources I'm finding
> > on that are three to five years old.  In the Linux world, that's like
> > trying to fix my Honda Accord with the service manual from 1977.
> >
> > Anybody have any good pointers for where to look on that?  If I can learn
> > how to do it I'm perfectly happy to give a presentation on the subject so
> > that I can share what I learn.  For that matter, it might make a good
> > panel for Penguicon.
> >
> > Clay
>
> This week's edition of LWN has a front-page article about video camera use:
>
>   http://lwn.net/Articles/261820/
>
>    The Grumpy Editor's video journey, part 1
>    [LWN subscriber-only content]
>    By Jonathan Corbet
>
> Eventually (after 1 or 2 weeks, IIRC), the article will be available to
> non-subscribers.
>
> However, as a subscriber, I'm allowed to create a limited number of "Free
> Links" to LWN stories that I want to share. Here's a free link to the above
> story, for those who are interested in video camera use under Linux:
>
>    http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/261820/4c0b2da7ed8cb13e/
>
> Here's a quote: "This article is the first of (probably) three which describe
> your editor's odyssey through the hazards of video processing on Linux."
>
> I haven't fully read the article yet, but Part 1 does not cover Kdenlive. It
> does discuss 'dvgrab', Kino, Cinelerra, 'transcode', and 'mencoder', though.
>
> And, lastly, for anyone interested in supporting LWN through a subscription:
>
>    https://lwn.net/op/Subscriptions.lwn
>
> Bill Marr
>
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