Pitivi is like one of those "good news / bad news" things we would have fun
with as a kid:
Bad news: I fell out of a plane.
(everyone gasps)
Good news: I had a parachute.
(everyone sighs)
Bad news: I couldn't get it open.
(everyone gasps)
...
> Thank you for the courtesy of your reply. Although I am sure I had tried
> every kind of click on the timeline, knowing where to click was quite useful
> and indeed I was able to effect the cuts.
>
(good news)
> However, this hardly ended the frustration with the program.
>
(bad news)
;-D
>
> At least on the laptop on which I am running the program, the individual
> clips cannot be easily and quickly joined.
>
I don't know what you mean by "joined". Don't worry with the group/ungroup
link/unlink buttons at the bottom. After removing a segment that you don't
want, click down and hold the segment to the right of the now empty space
and drag it over to the left until the blank space is gone. If you drag too
far the two segments will overlap and you'll see a "fader" indicator above
the two segments, the exact length of the overlap amount.
If you just butt them up to eachother, then when you render there should be
no break in the video.
> What happens is that the program stops 'showing' the video. I get the
> classical green field which indicates that the video stream is not being
> decoded. On other occasions, the video stream just stops.
>
> Is the idea to do all the edits, then join them at the end, and have the
> whole video melded in the rendering process?
>
yes. You should be able to preview the entire thing in the little preview
window to make sure it looks "right". I usually preview my trouble spots
over and over and edit them until I get them right.
>
> FWIW, this is an H.264 codec of the Orange Bowl, Stanford-Virginia Tech,
> which I originally downloaded with the Hauppauge, then saved with the Total
> Media program, without edits. I have done cuts with Avidemux, but
> (surprisingly) the video will not play afterwards.
>
You know you can also use ffmpeg, once you lock down the start and stop
segments it's just a matter of piecing together one long ffmpeg command that
will copy all the segments out and put them in one output file. Since it's
coming from one video file I would set the video and audio codecs to "copy"
because you wouldn't need to change them at all.
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