It was the first time I have been able to successfully (and without major hassle) edit and render a video on a Linux system. In this case, Ubuntu 8.10 Linux.
Specifically, I used "Kino" to import an MPEG file from my digital camera. I then added a title at the start and a fade out at the end and rendered the amended video out as an MPEG which I then uploaded to YouTube. The only hiccup was Kino telling me I needed to install the "mjpegtools" package in order to successfully render the final product. One "apt-get install" later and the job was done.For me, this is HUGE. Lack of useful and reliable video editing was the primary reason I had to move from mainly using Linux to mainly using Windows a couple of years ago. I had been almost exclusively a Linux user for the previous 5 years. I had tried everything there was at the time and it was all either flakey (Cinelerra) or didn't work at all (Main Actor, KDEnlive) or was impenetrably obtuse (Cinelerra).
Using Kino for the first time, I was able to work out, in just a few minutes, how to import a video clip, edit it and add effects ot it....then render it out.
There may be better programs out there, as I know there are several under constant development, but Kino is the first I've tried that meets my needs. Hopefully there are more.
Here is the first (very simple) vid I made with Kino: from video shot during a take-off from Auckland Airport on the 28th. Title effect added to the beginning and a fade out at the end.
I found Kino (as well as Cinellerra and KDEnlive) as well as other highly useful programs on
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My PC came with Windows Vista, which can do half the things I can do in Kubuntu.
Windows Movie Maker in vista stripped out video capture from analog sources, which was my major method of input. So I couldn't use Movie maker in Vista at all.
Kubuntu and Kino (although I also use and like KDEnlive) came to my resuce, also.
What font did you use ? I find that most of them look horrible.
ReplyDeleteOh man I love the feeling when the plane gets off the ground, I had the ghost of it while watching this video.
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