I'm setting up my system for video-editing right now. You need some apps, but as you mentioned
Honestly, without a decent Internet-connection your choice is: Buy MainActor.
Period.
Believe me, I tried so long to install what I needed manually - only resulted in loosing both my temper and my sanity ...
Maybe, if you don't have a connection yourself, you could take your 'puter to a friend for a weekend?
Then use yum (or apt - I prefer that even on Fedora) and install everything you need and lots more to be safe...
What I use:
For encoding movies and music:
transcode (frontend gtranscode if available)
mjpegtools
tovid (not in repo,
http://tovid.sourceforge.net/ )
dvdauthor (frontend qdvdauthor, only NTSC I think)
dvd+rw-tools (for dvd-burning)
(I also have mpeg2enc, lame, ffmpeg, some yuv-tools... many are included in mjpegtools)
These are mainly text-based, but excellent tools once you get used to them. I found it easier to use text-apps than graphical tools for converting movies, create & burn svcd/dvd-movies.
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If I combined some of my videos that would make things easier for me and conserve storage.
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You will "easily" do that using command-line...
But for editing you really need some gui-apps:
Cinelerra
Kino
Kdenlive
Lives
Avidemux
Kino and Kdenlive only works with DV, you could use transcode to get your movies in the right format.
Cinelerra works with DV in Quicktime-package, very capable but not easy to use. Made for pro's.
Avidemux is small and simple, maybe it's enough?