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Old 06-01-2005, 08:36 PM   #1
jlacroix
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In Need Of Software, Image Viewing and Video Editing


Hi all, I want to move completely to Windows and I need the software to do it.
Basically all I need is the following:

Image Viewer:
KDE comes with a good selection of Image Viewers, however I want something that can set up photo albums, kind of like LPhoto in Linspire. I am not using Linspire though, I am using Fedora Core 3, so something similair in aspect to LPhoto would be very nice. RPM's are preferred as I don't like source packages.

Video editing:
I downloaded Kino, but it won't let me import any mpg or wmv files, so that was a waste of time, basically I am looking for something that can take a couple mpgs and/or wmv files and create one mpg file from them. If I combined some of my videos that would make things easier for me and conserve storage.

Finally, anyway to get LSongs working in Fedora? Perhaps I should stick with Amarok, that is a nice program. Also I like the Linspire theme too, can I get that in Fedora?

I don't like Linspire as an OS, but I love its theme and Lsongs and Lphoto. Those things rock, and would be great in Fedora. Thanks in advance!
 
Old 06-01-2005, 09:21 PM   #2
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Try f-spot for photo albums.

Try LIVES for video editing.

 
Old 06-01-2005, 09:28 PM   #3
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I tried f-spot, looks like exactly what I need, but I realize now that its a dependency trap.

LiVes rpms I can't find for Fedora.
 
Old 06-02-2005, 06:37 PM   #4
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get in line, we all want a good video editing package.

try lives, kino, kdenlive, and cinelerra, and mainactor (from main concept) has a demo version of their software availible.
 
Old 06-03-2005, 07:09 AM   #5
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I'm setting up my system for video-editing right now. You need some apps, but as you mentioned
Quote:
its a dependency trap
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.
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?
 
  


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