On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:43:15PM -0000, Rob Malpass wrote: > I need some advice on video editing software for Linux. Can anybody > recommend a good package? I think I've spoken before on this list > about a huge library of VHS I'm getting digitised. Thankfully I've > now managed to find a working solution. Sadly it's not Linux based > but I'm ending up with several 8Gb mpgs that I need to edit. > > The problem is simple - and will be all too familiar to those of us who used > VHS: tracking. > > I have a small horizontal line at the bottom of the screen where the > image is "skewed" for want of a better word. I've tried > unsuccessfully to fix the tracking and handle it within the capture > software. No dice. So what I need is to crop the image. I've only > ever used Windows movie maker so I'm a bit green here but I'd much > rather play with something recommended than go through what is > probably a maze of software - I had enough trouble of that nature > trying to rip a DVD!!!
You don't say what format your data is in, nor what kind of editing you want to do[1]. However, assuming MPEG2 video as your input format: - Handbrake will do cropping and encoding to MPEG4 profiles only (XviD or H.264 profiles) - avidemux will give you non-linear access to the material, and allow cropping, removal of segments, and encoding to almost any other video form. It will also give you the ability to do GOP-level edits of MPEG2 material with no re-encoding. There's other packages out there that may be more suited to what you need to do (pitivi, possibly), but I've not really used those. Hugo. [1] Some or all of: cropping the frame; top-and-tail segments of footage; re-ordering of the material; fades and wipes; titling; adding static interstitial footage... -- === Hugo Mills: h...@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- In the future, terrorists won't be carrying their ID cards. --- They'll be carrying yours. -- Henry Porter, Suspect Nation
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