Your biggest problem is going to be finding a decent video editor with 
such and old linux install.  I would recommend kdenlive, but they only 
have current versions in their PPA for versions of ubuntu going back to 
16.04 (Xenial).
You might do OK with a version of kdenlive from 14.04, but it was a 
little fairly rough back then, and it's come a long long way in the last 
4 year.

For video, you'll want to get some recent versions of whatever software 
you find as video editing in general has come a long way in recent 
years, and most video editors are based off the same core libraries 
(ffmpeg and the MeLT framework)

Brian Cluff

On 11/18/2017 10:53 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have some clips and jpgs I need to combine in to a movie. Simple 
> stuff...jpg as title at the start, fade into first clip, fade into 
> shortened version of second clip. Boost audio tracks as needed. I am 
> running an uptodate Ubuntu 14.04 from system 76.
>
> I tried openshot...crashed twice.
>
> Tried Pitivi-ei-ei-o. The controls from the track headers are missing 
> and it crashed, too.
>
> Looked at Kino. It does not seem to fit my model for editing. I am 
> looking for a playback window, some tracks to add my content, and 
> controls to manage the tracks. Any good and short tutorials? Really 
> don't want to spend months on this project!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
>
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