video editing

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

John Abreau wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Laura Conrad <sunny at laymusic.org> wrote:
>>
>> I have attempted unsuccessfully to use Cinelerra.  Is there something
>> a bit closer in interface to moviemaker?  I'm not trying to make
>> Hollywood sit up and take notice -- just to get some stuff uploaded to
>> youtube for my family and friends.
> 
> I used kino about 5 years ago for pulling video off my DV camcorder
> and trimming it. At the time, kino was fairly bare-bones, but on the
> mailing list for kino there was a lot of discussion about its ultimate
> goal of becoming the Linux equivalent of Apple's iMovie. Presumably
> they've gotten closer to that goal in the past five years. Kino was
> pretty solid back then, for the features it had already implemented
> at that point.
> 
>    http://www.kinodv.org/
> 

Kino rocks.  Last time I used it (about 6 months ago) it crashed on me a
couple times, but from what a co-worker who bought commercial software for
Windoze told me about his experiences, it really isn't bad, considering the
alternatives.

Here's the deal with editing: Kino can do simple editing and effects while
your video is in DV format.  Kino can't edit MPEG though.  Cinerella can
edit MPEG but not DV (at least I couldn't get it to edit DV).  So once you
convert it to MPEG (kino has a gui for exporting to various formats), and if
you erase your original DV files, you won't be able to edit the video
anymore using Kino.  I too had problems with Cinerella, and ended up
limiting myself to whatever Kino could do, which actually turned out to be
plenty.

There's a whole set of other issues if you wanted to make DVDs that worked
in standard DVD players, but it looks like you're not interested in jumping
off that bridge yet...

Matt

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