What's the easiest-to-use video editor?

Mon Nov 8 17:34:58 MST 2010

All very good!!  Thank you!

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Keith Smith

--- On Mon, 11/8/10, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's the easiest-to-use video editor?
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 4:02 PM

I would concur with Alan's assessments.  I have used OpenShot rather more than the others because I like it a lot, it has seemed more stable to me, and while I was using it it evolved fairly rapidly.  Ubuntu adopted PiTivi at the same time OpenShot was being considered.  Personally, I thought OpenShot was clearly better and more stable.  All that said, I have not used any of them in about 6 months.

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Alan Dayley <adayley at gmail.com> wrote:

I can provide some of my own experience here.

First off, some of those on the list Synaptic creates are not what I

would call video editors, though they may have excellent other uses.

Here are the ones I have used or played with:

avidemux

Great "quick and dirty" editor for simply cuts, appending videos

together, resolution transformations, format translations and audio

extraction.  Not very good at titles and the like though it has some

of that ability.  When I want to do a quick cut or translate from one

encoding to another, this is what I use.

cinelerra

Very complex, high end, high control.  If you use this make sure you

have lots of RAM, CPU and monitor space.  I've not used it much

because it's overwhelming in capability.  Probably great for

professionals or someone who likes lots of control.

kdenlive

Very promising application.  Looks and feels similar to Apple's

iMovie.  Should be a good amateur editor if it would be stable.  About

9 months ago when I tried it crashes were common.  Could have been my

video driver or something so your mileage may vary.

kino

Great for extracting raw digital video from your camera if that is

what your camera creates.  OK with basic cuts and title screens but

the interface is pretty technical instead of user friendly.  Still use

it for capturing from our old camera but then edit the video

elsewhere.  Has improved by leaps and bounds over the past couple of

years.

openshot

I've only played with this one but looks really nice.  Similar to

kdenlive and seems to target the same capability level.  Did not crash

a lot but have not used it much yet.  I think this one has a photo

slideshow maker where you just point it at a directory of photos and

it builds the video for you.

For the uses requested, kdenlive and openshot are probably what you

are looking for, assuming they work well for you.

Alan

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:55 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>

> I'd like to piggyback on this one.  I recently bought a camera with the intention of creating YouTube videos.  I was going to use the windows movie maker, however now I'm wondering if Linux might have something better.  I'm thinking I will need to take an audio recording and apply some photos to make a video, add a graphic to the start and end of an actual video and apply a logo and website address to the entire video.  I need something easy to use. I don't intend on becoming a film maker however if there are advanced tools I'd be interested in hearing about them.

>

> Thanks!

>

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> Keith Smith

>

> --- On Mon, 11/8/10, joe at actionline.com <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

>

> From: joe at actionline.com <joe at actionline.com>

> Subject: What's the easiest-to-use video editor?

> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

> Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 2:25 PM

>

> .

> What is the easiest-to-use video editor?

>

> On my system, Synaptic lists more than a dozen different video editors

> that are available, only one of which shows as being installed, called

> mjpegtools ... but I can'y find it or how to start it.

>

> Among the others that appear as available to install are these:

>

> avidemux (plus a command line 'cli' option)

> bombono-dvd

> cinelerra

> dvd-backup

> fotowall

> gjacktransport

> gnonlin

> jahshaka

> kdenlive

> kino

> lives

> mlt

> mythtv

> openmovieeditor

> openshot

> pitivi

> wmwebcam

>

> I've read the Synaptic short descriptions for each of these, but can't

> figure out which one or two might be the best to try.

>

> All I want to do is to be able to import mp3 videos, cut out unwanted

> portions from the beginning, middle, and end to make them each one

> shorter, and then combine two or more into a single video.

>

> Also, I'd like to be able to add a title and perhaps captions to some

> segments; perhaps add or replace an existing audio track; and convert to

> whatever would be the most disk-space efficient format(s) for viewing

> either on youtube or as an embedded video on my website.

>

> What would y'all recommend?

>

>

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