video editing

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

Laura Conrad wrote:
>>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> writes:
> 
>     Matthew> Here's the deal with editing: Kino can do simple editing
>     Matthew> and effects while your video is in DV format.  Kino can't
>     Matthew> edit MPEG though.  Cinerella can edit MPEG but not DV (at
>     Matthew> least I couldn't get it to edit DV).  So once you convert
>     Matthew> it to MPEG (kino has a gui for exporting to various
>     Matthew> formats), and if you erase your original DV files, you
>     Matthew> won't be able to edit the video anymore using Kino.
> 
> My problem is that I don't have an original DV file, because that
> isn't what these cameras do.  So I can't figure out how to get Kino to
> do anything.  The documentation implies that it will convert to DV if
> you tell it what you want, but that hasn't happened yet.  I might be
> able to figure out the mencoder magic for converting to DV.

I think the "convert to DV" that you saw in the documentation was actually
referring to the "capture off the raw device" functionality (although I may
be wrong).

Check this thread; this guy seems to think he figured out how to get ffmpeg
to convert to type 2 DV format (which is something Kino claims to support;
YMMV as I've only ever used the "raw" DV format with kino):
http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.user/2004-09/msg00024.html

Good luck,
Matt


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