Hi guys

As you already know, some of us need to do some video/screen cast for their 3.6 
new features 
I spent my day today in recording and editing a video for one of my new 3.6 
features and I want to share my experience to save you time (and hair..)

Well, I started with recordmydesktop (yum) to capture the video files , this 
worked smooth and enables you also to have a cup of coffee until the file is 
written to the disk.
Then, after having few videos, I wanted to edit them and make a whole smooth 
video, cutting some stuff out ... 
I had started with installing pitivi (yum), from its feature list it seems 
promising but after dozens of crashes on almost every mouse move, I really gave 
up...

Oved, sent me this post [1]: 
So, I installed Blender and tried to work with it but it seems to refuse adding 
my video files to the project time-line ...
Digging around [2], I found that the Blender package on fc21 does not work well 
and in order to get it working you have to download Blender latest version 
(2.75a) manually from [3],
extract it to a directory and run blender ....

Blender has many usages, but you can adjust it to do video editing, just follow 
[4] [5] and [6] tutorials (less than 15 min for all)
(all are important, especially the first one that includes proper configuration)

One major issue is to configure well the frames per second rate (fps) (can be 
shown on the file properties) of your videos if you don't want to get a gap 
between your video and the sound track  

I was able after that to edit my videos and export (render) video as MP4 and 
audio as MP3 (embedded in the video file) (other formats may have codec 
issues...)

Overall, I worked with Blender few hours, splitting videos, removing video 
strips , grabbing and dragging without a single error or crash 

Although that Blender learning curve seems to be longer than other 
applications, I recommend to use this application for video editing and screen 
casting 

If you have any question or need any assistance/advice , I will be happy to 
help.


[1] http://opensource.com/life/15/1/current-state-linux-video-editing
[2] http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-users/msg459024.html
[3] https://www.blender.org/
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSGIPmQdV6M&html5=1
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20VqQLpvctY
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFGm_LQeZQ


Thanks
Eli Mesika

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