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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