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oxygen_wobble

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Registered: 2012-05-20

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video editing problem, seems impossible on my system ...

Hi everybody,

so, yesterday i recorded a screencast with recordmydesktop, and now i'm trying to put some
audio from a different source to it, at the right time, of course. Not exactly rocket science, right?

Well, it seems impossible on my system.

I'm working on a Dell E5510 (i5 processor), using an Arch system with recent kernel and awesomeWM.

First of all, the OGV file recordmydesktop produced seems to be faulty. When i try to transcode it to avi
(either with mencoder or ffmpeg), the video comes of way shorter that the audio. Pretty bad.

Second, every video editor i tried seemed to fail somehow.

- openmovieeditor doesn't even compile from AUR
- openshot isn't able to play back anything i add smoothly
- LIVES crashes, like, always, after about one minute, or when i add audio
- Cinelerra-cv doens't even start, i can only see a stamp-sized, empty window on my screen
- lightworks crashes after registration
- PiTiVi is unusable, as every other button doesn't have any effect when clicking it
- PiTiVi-git doesn't install
- Avidemux doesn't offer free time-placement, as far as i know ...

So, blender seems to work somehow, but whenn i import the ogv-file, there's still the problem that it comes out way shorter than the audio, so
i'd need to re-stretch it to the correct time ... don't know if blender can do this.

Anyone got any ideas so far ?
Regards,
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Morn

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Registered: 2012-09-02

Posts: 886

Re: video editing problem, seems impossible on my system ...

You could try kdenlive (Community) or flowblade (AUR). Maybe flowblade first because it has more professional features, being a clone of Adobe Premiere. Too bad OpenShot doesn't work for you, it's usually my favorite.

Last edited by Morn (2015-02-14 11:28:24)

oxygen_wobble

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Registered: 2012-05-20

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Re: video editing problem, seems impossible on my system ...

Hmm when i first tried flowblade (forgot to mention that one on my list) , it wasn't really able to play the ogv at all, but now it seems to be working ... are there any special libs requeried ?

It still seems to have some problems with the broken keyframes in the ogv, though ...

Last edited by oxygen_wobble (2015-02-14 11:38:25)

Morn

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Re: video editing problem, seems impossible on my system ...

No, I think MLT handles all kinds of media formats by itself, including OGV, by using ffmpeg.

Morn

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Re: video editing problem, seems impossible on my system ...

Also, ffmpeg was updated today, so maybe that fixed the issue.

drcouzelis

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Re: video editing problem, seems impossible on my system ...

You could try kdenlive

Did you try Kdenlive? It's the video editor I've had the most success with. I used it (on my five year old computer) to make some family movies.

ChemBro

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Re: video editing problem, seems impossible on my system ...

Also I would not prefer recordmydesktop. SSR + Kdenlive are the programs of my choice.

Morn

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Re: video editing problem, seems impossible on my system ...

Simplescreenrecorder can also record in MP4/AAC format which works better with video editing programs than Ogg codecs.

Last edited by Morn (2015-02-14 19:05:46)

oxygen_wobble

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Re: video editing problem, seems impossible on my system ...

Didn't try kdenlive so far, as i didn't want to install all the kde stuff ... flowblade seems to do the trick for now.

I'll try simplescreenrecorder next, makes sense ...

Morn

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Re: video editing problem, seems impossible on my system ...

Kdenlive is one of the iMovie/Windows Movie Maker clones on Linux, so for more demanding editing jobs flowblade is probably better anyway. Kdenlive and OpenShot are mostly intended for simple editing tasks.