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Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

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Video Editor

I want to cut video clips and stitch them together, and maybe add transition effects. Any suggestions?

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rsambuca

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Registered: 2008-07-21

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Re: Video Editor

Cinelerra, Avidemux, kino...

afonic

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Re: Video Editor

Check out Lives as well:
http://lives.sourceforge.net/

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skottish

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Re: Video Editor

Cinelerra is a major program. I wouldn't go there for simple editing unless I was really familiar with it. Avidemux is fairly straight forward if I remember correctly.

hBd

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Re: Video Editor

u know a little video maker program btw ??

alanhaggai

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Re: Video Editor

There are some others too:
Jahshaka
Kdenlive
PiTiVi
Open Movie Editor

u know a little video maker program btw ??

I hope the above programs can be used for creating videos as well.

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skottish

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Re: Video Editor

u know a little video maker program btw ??

I hope the above programs can be used for creating videos as well.

It also depends on what you're trying to do. If you simply want to make a movie out of still pictures, FFmpeg and Mencoder will work perfectly.

Raccoon1400

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Re: Video Editor

I installed kdenlive but can't find it anywhere. It isn't in any menus and typing "kdenlive" in terminal doesn't work.

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Registered: 2007-04-18

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Re: Video Editor

It may 've been installed into /opt/kde/bin/, that you have to put into your system path. To do that, append /opt/kde/bin/ to your PATH variable in /etc/profile. Then it should be visible. You can also try to run it directly as "/opt/kde/bin/kdenlive", using absolute path.

Raccoon1400

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Re: Video Editor

PKGBUILD: line 22: /etc/profile.d/kde.sh: No such file or directory
==> Finished making: kdenlive 0.5_1-2 x86_64 (Tue Sep 23 19:45:53 EDT 2008)
==> Installing package kdenlive with pacman -U...
loading package data...
error: '/home/duncan/Desktop/kdenlive/kdenlive-0.5_1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': cannot open package file
[duncan@duncan-arch kdenlive]$

this is what happens when I tryry to install kdenlive
SO it wasn't installed at all.

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skottish

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Re: Video Editor

PKGBUILD: line 22: /etc/profile.d/kde.sh: No such file or directory
==> Finished making: kdenlive 0.5_1-2 x86_64 (Tue Sep 23 19:45:53 EDT 2008)
==> Installing package kdenlive with pacman -U...
loading package data...
error: '/home/duncan/Desktop/kdenlive/kdenlive-0.5_1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': cannot open package file
[duncan@duncan-arch kdenlive]$

this is what happens when I tryry to install kdenlive
SO it wasn't installed at all.

You probably need to switch to the QT3 configuration. The kdenlive-svn package will have the necessary lines to do it. Then it may fail on FFmpeg. The solution to that is on the 'regular' AUR page.

Avidemux will probably work a whole lot better.

Last edited by skottish (2008-09-24 00:07:23)

Raccoon1400

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Re: Video Editor

avidemux gave me an error about initializing the sound device.
However, kino seems to work.

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Re: Video Editor

I had the same problem when I first installed avidemux. The solution was simple (and easily found on google):

just change your audiodevice to 'default' (edit->preferences->audio->alsa device)

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alleyoopster

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From: Cape Town

Registered: 2006-11-19

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Re: Video Editor

I want to cut video clips and stitch them together, and maybe add transition effects. Any suggestions?

I have played around with a few editors and found kdenlive very good. Lately it has become a pain to build. There is a kommander script that should make things easier http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=85826

I have actually had to go back to kino because of so many build problems and time spent on problems and I must say kino is very effective for simple transitions and effects. Once I got passed the weirdness of the interface I found it easier and quicker to use than kdenlive. If you can get kdenlive to work, then it is probably the better app, if not kino is stable and effective.