On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com<paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my > camera > > broke, and I had to get > > one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with > a > > fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera > > and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The > problem > > is that its videos are MP4s, > > which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing > > about transcoding. My previous > > camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks > > browsers. The MP4s are huge > > and in a weakly supported format. > > You might want to check out kdenlive which is a full-featured video > editor (using mlt as backend) but includes a simple transcoding > function and several presets for many different formats (with the > added bonus that you'll be able to edit your raw video should you so > desire). > Thanks, I emerged kdenlive. I can not open my MP4 files, but I can add them as clips. Okay. The clips do not play in any reasonable form. I get moments of sound, and a few pixels changing on screen; nothing coherent. I'd been told that H264 needs a lot of CPU and I guess an old 4-core 32-bit XEON (effectively 800 MHz each) on 2 GB ECC DDR1 is not enough. Okay. The killer though, is that I cannot figure out how to export that clip in some other form. And of course, I'm clueless about what form would be optimum. Asking for help takes me to a forum that has a thread on the topic, but no useful answer. Is there a kdelive tutorial anywhere? One basic walkthrough and I'd probably be able to figure out the rest of what I want. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
