Which video editor is best for a beginner?

Gregg Bell · 03-07-2016, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by OregonJim

The program "Cheese" gives you a very easy way to record video from your webcam, which can then be edited with OpenShot. It should require no configuration at all - just press the record button.

Oh man, I am definitely going to check that out! Thanks!

BW-userx · 03-08-2016, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

P.S. I heard VLC Media Player could take videos with a webcam but my version (2.2.1) didn't seem to be able to. See first screenshot (24) showing what I needed to do and the second screenshot (25) is my VLC. For a couple of things I could not get the "Direct Show" option and VLC wasn't picking up my webcam or microphone.

Did ya look at VLC's how to pages and find this???

Drivers

jamison20000e · 03-08-2016, 12:21 PM

Not sure if Avidemux can, I missed that sorry. Cheeses is nice and some fronts to V4L. VLC can record, cut, splice, add-effects and other...

Gregg Bell · 03-08-2016, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by BW-userx

Did ya look at VLC's how to pages and find this???

Drivers

Thanks BW-userx. I did check out a lot of stuff about VLC and I'm sure it's cool but it doesn't seem like capturing video is one of its main things. And Cheese is going to be perfect for what I need.

Gregg Bell · 03-08-2016, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by jamison20000e

Not sure if Avidemux can, I missed that sorry. Cheeses is nice and some fronts to V4L. VLC can record, cut, splice, add-effects and other...

Thanks jamison. Do you think VLC is better for editing than Openshot? And thanks for the V4L tip. I got it. It's great.

Gregg Bell · 03-08-2016, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OregonJim

The program "Cheese" gives you a very easy way to record video from your webcam, which can then be edited with OpenShot. It should require no configuration at all - just press the record button.

Cheese is perfect for what I need.

Thanks!

Gregg Bell · 03-08-2016, 08:25 PM

Oh well. Spoke too soon. Cheese's video and audio are out of sync. Tried to rememdy it. Reduced the video resolution. Nothing seemed to really help the out of sync and the picture quality got pretty bad. Googled some more and saw stuff about ffmpeg video syncing but it looked over my head. Any ideas?

BW-userx · 03-08-2016, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Oh well. Spoke too soon. Cheese's video and audio are out of sync. Tried to rememdy it. Reduced the video resolution. Nothing seemed to really help the out of sync and the picture quality got pretty bad. Googled some more and saw stuff about ffmpeg video syncing but it looked over my head. Any ideas?

bounch into youtube and look for others that have Linux howto's and ask them how did they set up there Video cam to there linux... and hope they are not using windows to do their how tos for Linux

Gregg Bell · 03-08-2016, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by BW-userx

bounch into youtube and look for others that have Linux howto's and ask them how did they set up there Video cam to there linux... and hope they are not using windows to do their how tos for Linux

Thanks BW-userx. Good idea. (I've been Googling around but hadn't thought of Youtube.)

OregonJim · 03-08-2016, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Oh well. Spoke too soon. Cheese's video and audio are out of sync. Tried to rememdy it. Reduced the video resolution. Nothing seemed to really help the out of sync and the picture quality got pretty bad. Googled some more and saw stuff about ffmpeg video syncing but it looked over my head. Any ideas?

Hmm... I haven't run into this, but the wiki mentions tweaking some gstreamer settings. Maybe this will help:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Cheese/F..._could_i_do.3F

Gregg Bell · 03-08-2016, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by OregonJim

Hmm... I haven't run into this, but the wiki mentions tweaking some gstreamer settings. Maybe this will help:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Cheese/F..._could_i_do.3F

Thanks OregonJim. I looked at the link. It said:

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You may have set "ximagesink" (X Window System (No Xv)) as video-output.

I didn't do anything so I doubt that's it. I did run the command they suggested though.

Code:

gstreamer-properties

But then it wanted more:

Code:

gregg@LG:~/Desktop$ gstreamer-properties
The program 'gstreamer-properties' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install gnome-media
gregg@LG:~/Desktop$

so I bailed. (I'm still a major chicken when it comes to the terminal.)

beachboy2 · 03-09-2016, 03:08 AM

Come on Gregg, you can do better than that.

Just open the Terminal and type:

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sudo apt-get install gnome-media

BW-userx · 03-09-2016, 05:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

so I bailed. (I'm still a major chicken when it comes to the terminal.)

Just close your eyes, hold your breath, and cross your fingers..

with this one it's a piece of cake just copy paste close your eyes and hit the enter key

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Originally Posted by beachboy2

Come on Gregg, you can do better than that.

Just open the Terminal and type:

Code:

sudo apt-get install gnome-media

I only know that because I use to use Debian

Gregg Bell · 03-09-2016, 06:53 PM

Guys, guys. That help link said:

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You may have set "ximagesink" (X Window System (No Xv)) as video-output.

And the streamer thing (in the terminal) was to counter-act that, so there was no point in doing it since I never did that "ximagesink" thing. (And really, isn't it manly to admit I'm a chicken?)