Need to do some Video Editing

[Darrin Chandler]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:33:12PM -0700, Richard Wilson wrote:
> I am hoping someone in this list can steer me to the right packages...
> My wife recently led a Women's Retreat which was captured to mini-DVD's
> on a Sony HandyCam which saves things in MPEG format.
> 
> I need to pull in the video files and edit out "empty space" and
> (hopefully) get three mini DVD's onto one regular size one.  
> 
> I am able to play the DVD's and copy them, but so far haven't found
> anything that will allow me to edit them.  The HandyCam came with Nero
> Express 6 Software (for XP of course) that does NOT allow editing.  
> 
> I am running Fedora 8, in case it makes any difference.

I don't do this stuff myself, so I can't comment on any. But anyway see
the short list at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages#Video_editing
and maybe you can find some packages for some or all of the for Fedora.

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