[nylug-talk] linux video editing

[Joseph M. Gaffney]

Posting from the treo, please excuse the top posting...

Off the top of my head, MainActor is a pro-sumer level app available commercially.  A lot of the work being done by the big studios using linux is in-house, and not available.  I would say the best bet for getting great video in linux starts with using good techniques with you camcorder, grab the dv using kino (or just dvgrab if you're comfortable with it), and using Cinellera.  Some distributions have cleaned up video editing software like kdenlive and cinellera for their release; take a look at 64 Studio, LiVeS (i don't remember if this was a distro or an app actually), and other such 'multimedia' distributions.

Gentoo has a nice metapackage for audio, and might have something good for video - I haven't checked in a while, but I will be very soon as I now have a place to put my hardware again.  I'll actually be investigating this a bit more thoroughly this weekend.. I won't have my m-audio delta 1010 for audio io yet (monday), but I can atleast get some work done in the other areas :)

How much editing do you want to get into? I could check for what you want while I run through things this weekend. 


-Joseph M. Gaffney

Associate Member of TPANA

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric <etamme at optonline.net>
Date: Thursday, Dec 7, 2006 8:40 pm
Subject: [nylug-talk] linux video editing

Does any one know if there are any legitimate video editing packages
>available for Linux?  I have tried Kino and Cinelerra.  I like Kino.. but it has limited functionality.. and isnt that intuitive.. Cinelerra would be great if it actually worked.. but i get errors all the time.. and it only renders in strange codecs that mencoder does not seem to
>understand.
>
>Commercial.. free.. anything really.. im just curious to see whats out there.. i mean.. i thought there was heavy linux use in film production beyond the render farm.. am i wrong?
>
>Thanks,
>Eric
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