video editing

[eric at newmag.org (Eric C)]

"I have attempted unsuccessfully to use Cinelerra." -
Laura

I know the feeling.  About 4 or 5 months ago I got
Cinelerra up and running on Fedora and it was such a
pain to figure out that I took a screenshot of me
editing a Mike Tyson video from ESPN2 just to tell
others I did it.  I've got to say that Cinelerra seems
like a pretty powerful tool for those who don't mind
the learning curve.  Everybody else has already
mentioned Kino which is pretty neat also.  I feel your
pain concerning the format your cam records in.  I got
a deal on my last computer and with the money 'saved'
went and splurged on a video cam without doing any
research.  It has a hard drive which is all I was
looking for thinking I could just mount it and drag
the files over to my Linux box.  This is true but I
didn't realize it was mpeg.  I'm able to edit the
video directly on the cam itself.  It has it's own
editing software, but it seens a pain on the little
tiny screen. I've never bothered with it. The windows
software that came with it is crash happy.  I have
like 4 different winblows editors all of which suck.

"I've always suspected those were developed as an
attempt to cripple the consumer video market..." -
John.

Ha!  Who knows.  Sure does feel like it.

- Eric C.

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