On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM, shan chak <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I wonder is there any better software in ubuntu ( Linux in general) to > > convert and edit videos all at the same time(like wmv to avi and then > edit > > avi)!!! > Unfortunately, I don't think there's a "great" video editor for Linux yet - but there are a few projects that look promising: Cinelerra - probably the most ambitious and the interface is very slick, etc. - however, it seems to still be quite quirky - I believe it is being redeveloped into something called Lumiera - in my experience, not fully usable yet, but if you're upto testing stuff, can be fun .. Kino - for simple edits which don't require multi-track editting etc., this is quite good. Kdenlive - Not used it really, but I hear this works quite solid.. LiveS - this project looked interesting about a year ago, but seems to have being single-developer and now a bit dead .. There are a few more, and I have spent some time about a year ago trying out a few, but finding unfortunately none to compare / entice someone who is used to either Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere .. For small tasks of cutting and joining videos, I generally use the command line (mencoder and ffmpeg) and avidemux, as you mention, actually rocks! If you have problems with converting videos, feel free to ping me - unfortunately, for all the tools out there, there is really nothing better than compiling ffmpeg with the latest svn, as the ffmpeg team refuses to do "stable" releases, so its always in a bit of a flux .. if you do want a GUI encoder, there's Gtk-Transcode -- a friend of mine ported it to Gtk2 with a better user-interface -- I can ask him to publish it somewhere if it might help.. So, unfortunately, the answer to your question is probably No - I think Cinelerra tries to deal with different encoding formats, and it might work if you really hack at it, but its not yet something you can throw at a newbie and have it all "just work" .. One software that I really really like though, that's not a "video editor" per se, but allows you to mix videos live, add text overlays, etc. and also to output that to either a network stream or file, is FreeJ - and with the newest version of FreeJ, it played pretty much all types of files I threw at it .. hth - best of luck, Sanjay > > I use mencoder and avidemux to do these stuffs. > > just posted a link > check out the link about a new video converter > > > http://rudd-o.com/en/linux-and-free-software/linux-video-converter-is-now-available > > > > > hey man go rocking!!! > > is this your sign out message ?? > > ram > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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