With my Nikon Coolpix 7900 I can record short movies. But how could I edit them in my Fedora Core 5?
On 8/22/06, Pesonen fossiili@gmail.com wrote:
With my Nikon Coolpix 7900 I can record short movies. But how could I edit them in my Fedora Core 5?
Video editing on Fedora/*nix is something I've been meaning to look into for some time now.
One editing program out there is "Avidemux". I successfully downloaded and compiled it (on FC5). Had to install a lot of devel packages to get it to handle the many different formats out there. Still trying it out, but it seems to be a (very) basic editor - cut, paste, import/export, etc - but no star-wipes or special effects.
If anyone is interested, I built a RPM from the tarball but I must *stress* the fact that this is the first RPM I have ever built from source, and had to tweak the tarball to do so. Specifically, I altered the .spec file and tarball name to correctly reflect the version (avidemux2-2.1.2), and the configure script to provide "/usr/include" for the default location for jsapi.h.
The RPM can be found here: http://cr33.is-a-geek.com/rpms/avidemux2-2.1.2-7.i386.rpm
along with the src RPM and debug RPM here: http://cr33.is-a-geek.com/rpms/
So, I guess this post has two purposes: 1 - Heikki: I hope this helps you out 2 - Would others check the RPM out and see if it's OK?
One thing about the RPM that I don't understand is the "-7" added to "2.1.2" - if someone could shed light on that...?
I'm looking for something heavier than avidemux, but it does seem like a nice, lightweight editor - useful for basic stuff.
Chris
Crap - I had livna commented out.
Avidemux 2 is available from the livna repo.
Chris
On Tuesday August 22 2006 11:04 pm, Chris Mohler wrote:
Crap - I had livna commented out.
Avidemux 2 is available from the livna repo.
Chris
I was going to say ...
Now, if you want to get adventurous, try Cinelerra. A big, powerful video editing tool, with a rather curious development team; secreted behind a veil of obscurity calling themselves Heroine Virtual, they basically welcome no comers and develop it for their own needs; there's a branch (they're resisting labelling it a fork) that's called Cinelerra CVS - rpms for that are in freshrpms if my memory serves. Cinelerra is a steep learning curve, and the documentation is outdated, but there's an active mail list of pretty helpful people including a number of the developers. http://cvs.cinelerra.org/
Then there's Jahshaka - that's a long story, but, they have an FC5 repo - it's still in early development, though they are calling recent releases RC# http://www.jahshaka.org/
On 8/23/06, Claude Jones claude_jones@levitjames.com wrote:
if you want to get adventurous, try Cinelerra.
Yes, I do! I'll try it, thank you.
On 8/23/06, Claude Jones claude_jones@levitjames.com wrote:
if you want to get adventurous, try Cinelerra.
Now I downloaded and installed cinelerra-2.0-0.4.20051210.2.fc4.i386.rpm. It's the second program I have succesfully installed in Fedora Core 5, the firs one was avidemux2. And cinerella even started from the Applications >> Sound and Videa menu. Exceptionally good work in the Linux world! I go on with it. Thank's!
On Sunday August 27 2006 2:04 am, Heikki Pesonen wrote:
On 8/23/06, Claude Jones claude_jones@levitjames.com wrote:
if you want to get adventurous, try Cinelerra.
Now I downloaded and installed cinelerra-2.0-0.4.20051210.2.fc4.i386.rpm. It's the second program I have succesfully installed in Fedora Core 5, the firs one was avidemux2. And cinerella even started from the Applications >> Sound and Videa menu. Exceptionally good work in the Linux world! I go on with it. Thank's!
Installing Cinelerra on Fedora 5 has become pretty painless. Using it may be a different question - keep in mind that many features present don't work, there are many workarounds, and the program is under intensive development. I would strongly recommend you sign up for their mail list and get yourself started by reading their documentation - they have a constant battle to keep it up to date, but it's still useful. http://cvs.cinelerra.org/mailinglists.php http://cvs.cinelerra.org/docs.php
On 8/27/06, Claude Jones claude_jones@levitjames.com wrote:
Installing Cinelerra on Fedora 5 has become pretty painless. Using it may be a different question
So it seems to be. Something I got done with it but then, for some strange reason, Cinelerra started building some index file and seemed to continue the job all the day and night. Everytime I start it the same happens! So I must confess I do not have time now with that interesting program. Sorry.
On 8/23/06, Chris Mohler cr33dog@gmail.com wrote:
Avidemux 2 is available from the livna repo.
"livna repo", why not giving the net address http://rpm.livna.org/ here? Yes, one find s it googling some time ...
Is "Avidemux 2" better than "Avidemux" more stable, more features?
On 8/23/06, Chris Mohler cr33dog@gmail.com wrote:
One editing program out there is "Avidemux". I successfully downloaded and compiled it (on FC5). Had to install a lot of devel packages to get it to handle the many different formats out there. Still trying it out, but it seems to be a (very) basic editor - cut, paste, import/export, etc - but no star-wipes or special effects.
If anyone is interested, I built a RPM from the tarball but I must *stress* the fact that this is the first RPM I have ever built from source, and had to tweak the tarball to do so.
Thank you! I have had Fedora Core 5 installed about 3-4 months. Untille recently I have not succeeded in doing anything else than Internet tasks. I have tryed to install many programs but even with the good advice I received from the Fedora community, always something was lacking in my Fedora distro from Linux Format DVD. And I found it too difficult or time consuming to continue the mini project. Especially becouse my reliable WindowsXP works well and I get things done there (the editing of Quick Time movies beeing the only exception). Even installing perl-Video-DVDRip-0.97.12-1.fc5.x86_64I did not succeed to the end, but in Windows it works well.
But now at last your avidemux2-2.1.2-7.i386.rpm installed well without complaying anything! I continue running it a bit later!
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 09:32 +0300, Heikki Pesonen wrote:
And I found it too difficult or time consuming to continue the mini project. Especially becouse my reliable WindowsXP works well and I get things done there (the editing of Quick Time movies beeing the only exception). Even installing perl-Video-DVDRip-0.97.12-1.fc5.x86_64 I did not succeed to the end, but in Windows it works well.
My first experience with Linux was with Slackware, way back in 1996, and there were no rpms that I could install. Back then everything, especially the kernel, had to be compiled from source. I remember the text-based installation as being particularly scary because there were so many options !
But now at last your avidemux2-2.1.2-7.i386.rpm installed well without complaying anything! I continue running it a bit later!
Congratulations, Heikki ! I have no doubt that after you have used Linux for a while, you'll look at Windows differently. To my non-technical friends, I describe Linux as the dull looking girl in class who may not look like much, but can be relied on when things go bad, and Windows is the hot chick who is high-maintenance, and unless you have plenty of money and time, you can forget about even going out with her! ;)
On 8/23/06, Chris Mohler cr33dog@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/22/06, Pesonen fossiili@gmail.com wrote:
With my Nikon Coolpix 7900 I can record short movies. But how could I
edit
them in my Fedora Core 5?
One editing program out there is "Avidemux".
Avidemux2 seems to work and I was able to cut unnecessary pieces from the mov file. But now I must save them as mpeg-files so that my Pinnacle Studio (in Windows) could read them and I could continue editing with a tool easy to use.
Unfortunately I can not find how to save my work as mpeg-files. What ever I try Avidemux2 only produces some text files. Sorry, I am stupid. In 1950's and 1960 I make home movies but in this fine HT era I have used only the simple tool Pinnacle and I do not much about the theory and the terminology.
As usual, what one finds in manuals and tutorial text, is not just that what you wanted to do at the moment! So I greatly appreciate your help in this matter, how to make reasonable size mpeg files from QuickTime files.
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