On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us> wrote:
> Hi, was wondering if anyone had any opinions/experiences with video
> editing software for Linux. I've been doing some ogv videos for my
> project at work and embedding them on the web, but it would be nice to
> add some music tracks to them and maybe even captions if that is possible.
Chris,
I'm sorry that I don't have any experience editing video with linux,
but I do have opinions. Does that qualify me? <g>
At least as recently as several years ago, I had found nothing that
would make me switch from editing video on a Mac. (They will pry
ProRes 422 from my cold, trackball-cramped fingers.)
Some of these OSS projects have moved on quite a bit, though, and
could be worth trying out:
cinelerra
jahshaka <-- I remember this as promising
Kino
kdenlive
pitivi
openshot
lives.sf.net
vivia
Some of them will be DV-biased, so if your source material/workflow
doesn't start with DV & Firewire, they might be too limiting.
Everything these days wants to be hi-def, it seems, and I'm happy not
to go back.
If you do end up trying and/or finding something, I'd love to hear about it.
> Also I am curious about creating/editing flash videos too, if anyone
> feels like discussing that.
Modern versions of Flash can play h.264 files with just the embedding
code, and that's going to be the best format to use in Flash itself.
That said, there are the HTML5 video tag features showing up, sadly
without universal support yet, across browser platforms, for the best
formats. This may change.
If this topic strays too far, email me.
Anyone else have suggestions? This question has come up before on the
list, but I'm too lazy to look in the archives. I don't remember us
getting very far, though.
Cheers,
jermudgeon
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