Hello,
I need a program like Pinnacle Studio 9 to capture and make dvd my home videos, any suggestion?

I have SUSE 9.3
I also looking for OCR for Greek Characters like finereader etc

I'm thinking you probably want to get Cinelerra. It's a multi-track video editing program. I've read reviews that it works very well although it may just dissapear at times - so save your work often.

If you want something more like Windows Moviemaker or iMovie, check out Kino. Basically you get one track of video and you can trim segments and put transition effects between segments.

If I remember correctly (this was covered in linux format magazine a few months ago if you can get your hands on the issue or if it's available online) Kino doesn't do DVDs, but there are other programs out there that do.

Then you just burn it to DVD with K3B.

"Then you just burn it to DVD with K3B."

Its easier said than done. You have to use a udf file structure and I have not been able to successfully make one that will play in my DVD player using k3b except by creating the file structure using mkisofs and then burning the iso in k3b. I'd like to skip that step.

rock

You could take the completed output and use it as the input to tovid. There's also some other scripts, like the one in this thread.

I haven't completed the final step in creating my DVD with tovid, but so far, it's worked as advertised (after fixing a few script bugs in the latest version).

Thanks, but I already have the video_ts and audio_ts directories and files created. I was just looking for a one step way to burn them to a dvd that would play on a standalone player.

I found another post form way back in 2003 with the answer to my question. I just needed someone to hold my hand. To burn the dvd structure in k3b you can't just choose the make a data dvd button on the k3b dashboard. That little function is located under file - new project - new video dvd project.

Thanks for the response, though.

rock