making movies in Linux

newbiesforever · 10-04-2013, 12:48 AM

What programs can I use to make movies in Linux? Borrowing someone else's computer, I just learned how to use Windows Movie Maker, but have never tried making movies in Linux, and have no idea what I need. All I want to do is set music to a still photo for a Youtube video.

eklavya · 10-04-2013, 01:29 AM

If you are searching an alternative of windows movie maker, here are some

Code:

Cinelerra, KDenlive, LiVES, Kino, AviDemux

which I have found here
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...ndows_software

newbiesforever · 10-04-2013, 11:21 AM

Kino was unintuitive and too difficult...it took me three minutes or less to make something in Windows Movie Maker. I'll try the others.

corp769 · 10-04-2013, 11:28 AM

I usually use a combination of openshot and kdenlive, and suits my needs quite well. Have you tried openshot yet?

dugan · 10-04-2013, 11:46 AM

If you want 3D photos like in Tupac: Resurrection or The Kid Stays in the Picture, then the right tool to use is Blender. It's definitely not the easiest one to learn though.

For just video editing, Kdenlive is unquestionably the best. Just having a still photo as the video track, and a single audio track, should be very easy. It should be just as easy in OpenShot too.

teckk · 10-04-2013, 11:51 AM

Quote:

All I want to do is set music to a still photo for a Youtube video.

In it's simplest form something like

Code:

ffmpeg -i file.jpg -i file.mp3 -c:a copy -c:v copy output.avi

Or for a flash video with aac audio, x264 video, size 320x240, something like

Code:

ffmpeg -loop 1 -i file.jpg -i file.mp3 -strict -2 -c:a aac -b:a 128k -c:v libx264 -b:v 500k -s 320x240 -shortest output.flv

man ffmpeg

newbiesforever · 10-08-2013, 06:30 PM

Ill try Openshot, because Kdenlive apparently requires installing KDE 4.