Re: [CentOS] Video Editing

2009-03-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Bo Lynch bly...@ameliaschools.com wrote:
 This is kind of a new area for me so I thought I would get the lists opinion.
 I have a avi video that I need to edit. The main thing that I need to
 accomplish is to maybe cut the top 1/3 of the frame and blur out a few
 faces. What would you guys recommend for an app that would accomplish
 this? Thanks in advance for any info.

For the cut part of the task, I will suggest avidemux (from ATrpms).
 The blur part will require more powerful editing software such as
cinelerra (from RPMforge).

Akemi
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Re: [CentOS] Video Editing

2009-03-11 Thread Bo Lynch
On Wed, March 11, 2009 8:30 am, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Bo Lynch bly...@ameliaschools.com
 wrote:
 This is kind of a new area for me so I thought I would get the lists
 opinion.
 I have a avi video that I need to edit. The main thing that I need to
 accomplish is to maybe cut the top 1/3 of the frame and blur out a few
 faces. What would you guys recommend for an app that would accomplish
 this? Thanks in advance for any info.

 For the cut part of the task, I will suggest avidemux (from ATrpms).
  The blur part will require more powerful editing software such as
 cinelerra (from RPMforge).

 Akemi


Akemi,

I have loaded cinelerra from rpmforge but I'm having a really hard time
getting the avi to even show up in it. I open cinelerra and go to
fileload files and select the avi video but nothing shows up. I know this
is a valid file because I can play it. Is cinelerra capable of editing
already created AVI?

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Re: [CentOS] Video Editing

2009-03-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Bo Lynch bly...@ameliaschools.com wrote:
 On Wed, March 11, 2009 8:30 am, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Bo Lynch bly...@ameliaschools.com
 wrote:
 This is kind of a new area for me so I thought I would get the lists
 opinion.
 I have a avi video that I need to edit. The main thing that I need to
 accomplish is to maybe cut the top 1/3 of the frame and blur out a few
 faces. What would you guys recommend for an app that would accomplish
 this? Thanks in advance for any info.

 For the cut part of the task, I will suggest avidemux (from ATrpms).
  The blur part will require more powerful editing software such as
 cinelerra (from RPMforge).

 Akemi,

 I have loaded cinelerra from rpmforge but I'm having a really hard time
 getting the avi to even show up in it. I open cinelerra and go to
 fileload files and select the avi video but nothing shows up. I know this
 is a valid file because I can play it. Is cinelerra capable of editing
 already created AVI?

According to the documentation,

Because AVI (Audio-Video Interleave) is so fragmented with varied
audio and video codecs, you may not be able to play all AVI formatted
files.

It's not looking good.

My friend who is an expert in video editing mentioned the other day LIVES:

http://lives.sourceforge.net/

I have not looked at it yet, but that is another possibility.

Akemi
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Re: [CentOS] Video Editing

2009-03-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have loaded cinelerra from rpmforge but I'm having a really hard time
getting the avi to even show up in it.

I don't know cinelerra, and if you can believe, I don't have a single CentOS
box w/ a desktop heh but I would presume you have to demux the audio and video
into separate files as that is how most non linear nle's work...

Last time I heard of cinelerra, I looked at the docs and they looked very good.

jlc

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Re: [CentOS] Video Editing

2009-03-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Joseph L. Casale

 Last time I heard of cinelerra, I looked at the docs and they looked very 
 good.

I've tried it.  Alas, it would crash so often that it was unusable.
I've used Kino a little. It didn't crash but I haven't done much with
it besides re-arrange some clips.
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Re: [CentOS] Video Editing

2009-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 18:07:26 Kwan Lowe wrote:
 On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Joseph L. Casale

  Last time I heard of cinelerra, I looked at the docs and they looked very
  good.

 I've tried it.  Alas, it would crash so often that it was unusable.
 I've used Kino a little. It didn't crash but I haven't done much with
 it besides re-arrange some clips.

You might like to take a look at the todisc/tovid suite of programs.  You get 
the most power out of them if you use the CLI, but a gui does help with 
various aspects if you want it.  I haven't used it on a situation like yours, 
but I tickled the edge of it, and was very pleased with the results.  They 
have a very helpful, low-volume mailing list too.  Whether it will read yoiur 
.avi remains to be seen, but if it will you can probably re-save it to any 
reasonable format, then your mainstream tools are also available to you.

HTH

Anne
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Re: [CentOS] Video Editing

2009-03-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 3/11/09, Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Joseph L. Casale
 Last time I heard of cinelerra, I looked at the docs and they looked very
 good.

 I've tried it.  Alas, it would crash so often that it was unusable.
 I've used Kino a little. It didn't crash but I haven't done much with
 it besides re-arrange some clips.

cinelerra does crash, frequently, but if you read their documentation,
they save after everything you do and when you restart it, you can
immediately get back to where you were before the crash. Crashing is
not a feature, but they are well aware of it.  :-)

It has (as Akemi pointed out to me) a steep learning curve, but it is
extremely powerful.

My wife is trying to figure out how to get the audio and video synced
properly, when she edits...

kino is much easier to learn, but probably much less powerful too.
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