Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
the transfer from camcorder to computer file does not have to be done by you, maybe you know someone who can do it and put it on a dvd. Other wise, you need something like a firewire interface and a camcorder that is computer compatible. Dear Debianists, thanks for all the useful comments

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 15:48 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: I installed Blender and had a little look at it. The documentation in Blender says that you really need a good graphics card e.g. Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS and that you need to install the proprietary driver for it to get the full

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Michael Fothergill wrote: --- Dear Debianists, thanks for all the useful comments on video editing etc. I do have a few other questions that I have accumulated after investigating this a little further. I have nosing into the various different kinds of camcorders that are about these

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:48:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, thanks for all the useful comments on video editing etc. I do have a few other questions that I have accumulated after investigating this a little further. I have nosing into the various different kinds

dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I thought about buying a camcorder to make some films for a project at work. I then began to wonder about using video editing software. I thought it would be useful to add subtitles to some footage and make diagrams and other visual aids that I could add to conventional

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 10:39, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, I thought about buying a camcorder to make some films for a project at work. I then began to wonder about using video editing software. I thought it would be useful to add

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:02:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: In Etch itself some of these programs seem to have been made into packages. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package that combines them all into one grand editing suite That's not The Unix Way. Kino (which makes it

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread David Liontooth
Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:02:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: In Etch itself some of these programs seem to have been made into packages. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package that combines them all into one grand editing suite That's not The Unix Way.

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 11:36, Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:02:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: In Etch itself some of these programs seem to have been made into packages. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package that combines them all into

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
There are also programs such as cinelerra and LIVE and things like Blender that could be used to edit camcorder footage and enhance it. In Etch itself some of these programs seem to have been made into packages. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package that combines them all into one