HD Video editing

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/22/14 18:57, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:07:36 +0800
> Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/22/14 18:05, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> A quick test shows that avidemux can edit the file.  I've not checked to
>>> see if some components from RPM Fusion are required.  And, I've not
>>> check to see if there is any loss in quality when standard defaults are
>>> used to "copy" the video.
>> Ooops...  Just realized that avidemux-qt does come from RPM Fusion Free.
>  I'm not a Fedora-purist, so rpmfusion is fine. A quick check show that I
> can open and convert the file to other formats. But the timestamp in the
> stream is missing. It's encoded as a subtitle strem in the videofile, but I
> can't get that to show. Also, what are the editing capabilities of avidemux?
> If I want to assemble a complete video from several parts of the input, and
> add crossfades or other transitions, captions, overlayes and so on, will
> avidemux still be the proper choice?
>

Well, avidemux is rather rudimentary.  For more advanced editing you'd probably want something like cinelerra.  I've used that in the past but not sure as to its current state.  I don't think there are any current builds for Fedora.

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