Video Authoring Application of the Year

Randy Skaman · 01-21-2010, 01:51 PM

Tovid works great (but it is hard to use)

Randy SkaMan

Jevan · 01-22-2010, 04:45 PM

Having never made a video before, I edited together some DV clips into a nice project for school with KDenLive a few months ago and must say it worked pretty nicely, so it got my vote. Before that all I had done was cut down the size of videos ("crop" if photos). However, I did experience some bugs.

SCerovec · 01-29-2010, 02:40 PM

Used Avidemux, it did the job, so I liked it. But now, all I can play no my PC i can transcode to avi and play on my trusty old USB able DVD player too.

It's Avidemux; seek no more

great frontend and kudos to all backend developers (transcode, mplayer team, ffmpeg et all)

oneforall · 01-29-2010, 07:27 PM

mencoder Avidemux FFmpeg Transcode | Cinelerra/LiVES | blender

I can't vote because I like all of those above. But they are all used for different reasons .To make 3d using mencoder Avidemux FFmpeg Transcode | Cinelerra/LiVES? O.o

Usually votes are used to get rid of lesser used things, which sucks.
I prefer posts showing the pros/cons

joeldick · 02-04-2010, 10:17 PM

None of them are good. I tries Cinerella and Kdenlive, and they both crash literally on start-up, and Kino doesn't do much. For this, I have to admit OS X is necessary.

SCerovec · 02-06-2010, 08:49 AM

joeldick,
try avidemux?

zebu · 02-06-2010, 12:29 PM

Are there any Linux based encoding applications that can convert various formats such as AVI or MOV into Flash movies?

replica9000 · 02-06-2010, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by zebu

Are there any Linux based encoding applications that can convert various formats such as AVI or MOV into Flash movies?

avidemux

zebu · 02-06-2010, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by replica9000

avidemux

Thanks for the tip! I will give this one a try.

oneforall · 02-06-2010, 01:11 PM

joeldick
Try compiling them. I've used em all for years and they work well. But I compile them all.

joeldick · 02-07-2010, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by oneforall

joeldick
Try compiling them. I've used em all for years and they work well. But I compile them all.

Good Idea. Excuse the stupid question, newbie here, but does apt-get compile from scratch, or only get the binaries and install them?

MrCode · 02-07-2010, 12:23 AM

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does apt-get compile from scratch, or only get the binaries and install them?

AFAIK apt-get only gets the binaries. It would probably take a LOT longer to install a large application if it compiled from source code.

replica9000 · 02-07-2010, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by MrCode

AFAIK apt-get only gets the binaries. It would probably take a LOT longer to install a large application if it compiled from source code.

You can try apt-build, which I believe will get the sources and compile them for your system.

tvphil · 02-15-2010, 10:08 PM

Another one to try is the relatively new Open Shot. I've tried Kino, Cinelerra, Lives and most recently Kdenlive in the past 4 years. This is the best, most user friendly Linux editing software I've tried yet. I shoot AVCHD 1080P to an SDHC card, everything from import to export were crash free.

joeldick · 05-26-2010, 04:29 PM

It doesn't look like PiTiVi is on the list, but apparently it's included in Ubuntu 10.04