Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-12-02 Thread Florian Rehnisch
Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com writes: Also, what is the best capture and editing software for a newbie with minimal needs. No flame wars, please. I know that Cinelerra is available, but I don't know what else there is, or how easy they are to use. For now all I really need to do is

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-30 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
30/11/2010 06:47, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/29/10 16:52, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-30 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/29/2010 09:48 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: No worries there. I avoid KDE and any apps that use its libraries like the plague. I used to use a few KDE apps (kate, in particular) but artsd kept messing up my sound so that I had to kill it to get any sound back. I got tired of that real fast

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/30/10 01:03, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, apt-file search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware-ivtv: /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw ~$ apt-file search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw bash: apt-file: command not found ~$ apt-cache search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware-ivtv - Binary firmware for

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-30 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
30/11/2010 16:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/30/10 01:03, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, apt-file search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware-ivtv: /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw ~$ apt-file search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw bash: apt-file: command not found ~$ apt-cache search

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:47:53PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/29/10 16:52, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/28/10 23:10, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:31:10 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: When I mentioned this to a friend, he pulled out a WinTV card, using a Hauppauge PVR-250. Are there drivers for this in the standard kernel tree, or do I need to get them from somewhere? As per this

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/10 04:24, Paul Cartwright wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any more (or VCRs?) I expect it

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:19:14 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/28/10 23:10, Camaleón wrote: (...) PiTiVi, OpenShot and Kino are the easy-ones (in the line of Windows Movie Maker). I'll give PiTiVi and Kino a shot as soon as I get the card installed. Is OpenShot a Debian package? I

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:19:14 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/28/10 23:10, Camaleón wrote: (...) PiTiVi, OpenShot and Kino are the easy-ones (in the line of Windows Movie Maker). I'll give PiTiVi and Kino a shot as soon

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/10 16:18, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 11/29/2010 06:09 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I seem not to have mentioned it. My bad. If nothing else works for me then I could update to Squeeze. I'm running it on my netbook without any problems, but the desktop still has Lenny. My wife and

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4cf46610.3040...@gmail.com, Marc Shapiro wrote: I used to use a few KDE apps (kate, in particular) but artsd kept messing up my sound so that I had to kill it to get any sound back. ARTSd is dead is KDE SC 4. KDE SC 4 does include Phonon, a common API or A/V manipulations, but it does not

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/10 16:52, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since

Newbie video editing question

2010-11-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any more (or VCRs?) I expect it will be difficult to repair my two VCRs

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-28 Thread godo
On 11/29/2010 06:31 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any more (or VCRs?) I expect it

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-28 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:31:10 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any more (or