On 02/21/2012 02:24 PM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
On 2012-02-21, at 11:01 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On 19/02/12 19:57, Kevin Wood wrote:
Kino has captured the clip and I can see the timeline, but of
course
it is in .kino format. I thought that .mov might be the best bet,
but kino crashes if you ask it to save to .mov.<<<
You should probably target .avi or maybe .mp4 as a good
cross-platform choice. Kino should give you an option to pick your
output format for final render, so it shouldn't matter if it uses
.kino format internally. However, you should create a short test
clip and try it out in PowerPoint etc. before getting too
involved.
If you get really stuck and need off-list help, send me an email
directly and I'll see what I can do.
I really appreciate that offer. As it turned out, I didn't need it
though :-)
Just to wrap up, and in case someone reads the archives, I found that
the owner of the file preferred a playable DVD to use alongside her
presentation, rather than embedding into it.
Fortunately little editing was required, as Kino doesn't seem too able
in that department. However, I found I could create an mpeg file from
it, and from there I could doctor the xml file to a standard dvdauthor
xml file. I did hit a bit of trouble as K3b twice burned the content
then failed to write the finalisation of the disk, giving an error
message. I moved the files to this laptop and burned here, testing on
a stand-alone player, and all is well. :-)
My previous experience of command-line use (mjpegtools) was helpful.
I think if more detailed editing was required it would be best to
output an .avi from Kino, and use mjpegtools to edit it.
Thanks again for the offer of help, and thanks also to Chris.
Anne
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Also for future reference, pitivi (http://www.pitivi.org/) seems to be a really
good and easy to use video editor. I am unsure of whether it's available in the
SL repos, but I am sure you can compile and install. ffmpeg
(http://ffmpeg.org/) is also a great resource for converting from one movie
file to another (even audio files too!), so as long as you can output in some
sort of movie format from kino (or pitivi!), you could conceivably get ffmpeg
to convert it for you.
-a different Chris
I'll also toss out avidemux as a relatively painless video editor to snip out
commercials, beginning/ends, change formats. Reads and writes many formats (a
learning exercise in itself). Check your friendly repos or rpmfind.net.
[I think the horse/topic is dead.]
