Suppose I have an mpeg file created by a camcorder. I'd like to edit some of the frames but retain the audio track or add a new audio track. I can use convert to split the video into individual frames, edit them with gimp, and put them back together (with convert), but without the audio. How do I accomplish what I want to do?

You can look at Avidemux. Cinerrela is very powerful.

Whatever tools you use you will find it much easier to do with a current version of Linux. RH9 is not even supported by RedHat anymore. There is Fedora (free/development version of RedHat), Centos (RHEL with logos removed, free), and well as many other distros.


Good Luck
Lazlow

Kino is simple one
http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/200...kino/kino1.png

Please post the one you choose and your personal impressions/comments to know the one you may favour

Avidemux2 will do it but you need to convert to avi first.
ffmpeg -i blag.mpg -b 800k blag.avi

The -b option will give better video bitrate. The default of 200k is rather cheesy for editing.

Caviat: My camera outputs audio in 8KHz format so in addition I need to use the -ar 16k option to convert it to 16KHz or ffmpeg will give errors.

Avidemux can handle mpg too.

btw, to record movies with the webcam, what would be the best program to use ?

Thanks!

I was able to find downloads for everything but Cinerrela.

Try here: http://cv.cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php

Lol I guess Avidemux does handle mpegs. It just doesn't like the mpegs from my camera, probably due to the audio being 8KHz, so I still have to convert them. Cool though.

So it looks like I'll have to bite the bullet and upgrade if I want any of this to work. On that note, I looked at Fedora and could only find it on a DVD iso (over 3 GB) which is a problem for me since I don't have a DVD burner (except for my camcorder which can burn mini DVDs). Another problem was that I can't seem to download the whole thing. The first time I tried, it choked at 2GB+ with a file too large exit message. So I tried again piping the output through split (1GB output files) and it still choked at 2GB+. I'm wondering if my ISP (Cablevision) has a download size limit.

Anyone know if it's available on CD-ROM isos? I couldn't find anything but DVD on the mirrors I checked.

You can install from the live cds(there are no official full install cds). Then just yum install everything else.

You might also want consider Centos instead of Fedora. It is RedHat EL with the logos removed (free to download). It has a 5 year support life whereas Fedora only has about a 1 year support life.

fedora should have usb pendrive boot images that you write with dd. http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/YUM/fedora/rel...386/os/images/ the boot.iso is a burnable cd. the diskboot.img is for the pendrive. note that this is the i386 version, which is probably what you need. there used to be an faq somewhere about the 2gb file limit. it is a limitation in browsers, as I recall. bittorrent should work. in any case, the files i mentioned above will download just the installer program, and the needed files can be downloaded from a mirror during the install. i think you will need to have the address of a mirror to type during the installation process. just browse within that link i gave you. i've always used the usb pendrive image, downloaded the dvd isos to my hard drive, and therefore not wasted a dvd.

one note about cinelerra, I found it very daunting, having never done any video editing before. The research I did was pretty fruitless for a long time, and the documentation of the effects is spotty. The most progress I made was with the cinelerra tutorials on "the_source" web tv show. since one of the hosts moved, the new episodes have been few and far between, but there were three good tutorials while both were living in the same area. I've cut them all together, using cinelerra , in to one .ogg video. it's just over an hour long and 400mb. if you have an idea about how to get it from me, let me know. I guess you could ssh into my box and sftp it, but I am behind a university firewall. you can also just watch the whole three episodes that contain the tutorials.

if you figure out how to effectively use the denoisevideo2 effect, let me know.

bill

I'm about ready to give up. I tried to install CentOS 5 from CDs and have had nothing but problems. The disks checked OK, but the installation keeps locking up at various stages. Using the "graphical" install method, it eventually got to dependency checking, and then quit with an error "an error occurred when attempting to load an installer interface component - className=InstallConfirmWindow." (got this twice)

Then, I tried "text" installation. It locked up once, then got into the second disk and ran into a Python exception and aborted.

lazlow wrote, "You can install [Fedora] from the live cds(there are no official full install cds). Then just yum install everything else." I don't understand what is meant by "live cds."

Live cds are the cds that you can boot from and run the distro off the cd (think test drive). You can however install the basic OS from them. Each live cd only contains a limited amount of information (there are not sets of cds, just one for gnome or one for kde, etc). You then install the vast majority of apps via yum. Here is a link:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

I have never had any issue installing Centos. Your best bet there would be to post on Centos's forum.

OK, so I've installed avidemux (after upgrading to Fedora 8) and it has an annoying trait - a screen flicker about every 7 seconds.