Can't help you, but thought I'd throw in my 2 cents anyway. I recently
purchased a capture card for my linux box. Running bttv and xawtv.
With xawtv, you can capture video to an *.avi file. There's a tool
called streamer that comes with xawtv. I've currently got an old
camcorder connected to mine (use it for a webcam), but you could easily
put a vcr there as well.
Can't help you with the editing piece.
jeff covey wrote:
>
> howdy, all!
>
> hope some linarters have experience with this and can make
> suggestions. apparently, there's a video4linux mailing list at:
>
> http://odin.appliedtheory.com/video4linux/
>
> to which i would write, but the server's down at the moment.
>
> anyway, there are a couple of people here who want a machine to use to
> convert the videotapes of their grandchildren to cd. they want to
> capture the tapes to disk, then do simple edits on them (adding some
> text, recording a voice track to say things like "this is joey playing
> on the swingset", adjusting contrast in some places and reducing the
> wind noise in others) and burn the resulting avi's to cd.
>
> they'd like to do everything under linux if possible, but if necessary
> are willing to resign themselves to dual-booting nt.
>
> so, i'm wondering: are there any good video editors (free or
> commercial) which run natively on linux? if not, are there any
> windows editors (like adobe premiere) that run under wine?
>
> a few things i've found:
>
> 1. a general video for linux resources page at:
>
> http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
>
> which leads to lots of grabbers, but no editors.
>
> 2. an attempt at:
>
> http://millennium.diads.com/moxy/
>
> to build a gpl'ed video editor, but it's only in the beginning
> stages.
>
> 3. here's the most interesting bit:
>
> http://linuxmedialabs.com/
>
> they're making a capture board specifically for linux, with gpl'ed
> drivers and open specifications. they say it can be used for "high
> end home and semi-professional video editing", but don't give any
> idea what software is used for doing this.
>
> any suggestions welcomed. thanks!
>
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