On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: > My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera > broke, and I had to get > one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with a > fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera > and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The problem > is that its videos are MP4s, > which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing > about transcoding. My previous > camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks > browsers. The MP4s are huge > and in a weakly supported format.
You might want to check out kdenlive which is a full-featured video editor (using mlt as backend) but includes a simple transcoding function and several presets for many different formats (with the added bonus that you'll be able to edit your raw video should you so desire).