Re: Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-27 Thread Technomage-hawke
try the Lives project: http://lives.sourceforge.net/ On Saturday 26 January 2008 17:33, Richard Wilson wrote: I am hoping someone in this list can steer me to the right packages... My wife recently led a Women's Retreat which was captured to mini-DVD's on a Sony HandyCam which saves things in

Re: Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-27 Thread John
I personally use lives.sourceforge.net. It's very simple to use. If you want to do advanced editing, you can use Cinelerra but it's more complicated. You can do your edits and then use k3b to burn them to a DVD or you can use something like ProjectX to make a DVD that you could use in a DVD

Re: Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-27 Thread Alan Dayley
Richard Wilson wrote: I am hoping someone in this list can steer me to the right packages... My wife recently led a Women's Retreat which was captured to mini-DVD's on a Sony HandyCam which saves things in MPEG format. I need to pull in the video files and edit out empty space and

Re: Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:33:12PM -0700, Richard Wilson wrote: I am hoping someone in this list can steer me to the right packages... My wife recently led a Women's Retreat which was captured to mini-DVD's on a Sony HandyCam which saves things in MPEG format. I need to pull in the video

Re: Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-26 Thread Alan Dayley
Richard Wilson wrote: I am hoping someone in this list can steer me to the right packages... My wife recently led a Women's Retreat which was captured to mini-DVD's on a Sony HandyCam which saves things in MPEG format. I need to pull in the video files and edit out empty space and

Re: Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-26 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Jan 26, 2008 5:53 PM, Alan Dayley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kino was mentioned and it's a good program now that it is more stable. But, it edited raw digital video (DV) files. As far as I know it will not import MPEGs. Newer versions of kino should import your video in non-raw formats --

Re: Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-26 Thread Alan Dayley
Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: Newer versions of kino should import your video in non-raw formats -- but it will take a while to import. If not, you can always use ffmpeg or mencoder before-hand... $ ffmpeg -i foo.mpg foo.raw You are very correct, Kristian. My wife and I have done just

Re: Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-26 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Jan 26, 2008 8:51 PM, Alan Dayley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are very correct, Kristian. My wife and I have done just that from time to time. I have since found that I prefer to stay with the MPEG format rather than convert back and forth on my way to a DVD. If one is more comfortable