video editing software

[francois]

***In progress***
It happens to me to take some video. Yet I did not transform myself into a movie director, but maybe I should think about it. Meanwhile I would appreciate a movie editor just to revise in details some movies. Not the ones you think.

I am a fan of karate and aïkido. Slow motion is kind of great to get a better eye on katas for example. For now kino suits me well, it would convert .mkv files into .dv files and them permit me to easily review them with the wheel of my logitech mouse (to do so you have to position your mouse pointer on the timeline line). There are are other video editor softwares that might suit one's need:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vi ... g_software
http://www.techdrivein.com/2013/09/top- ... linux.html
. kino
. kdenlive
. cinerella
...

If you used one or another, or many of these video edition software please give us your impressions. They will be appreciated.

[cttan]

Hi francois

Kino should be enough for simple task.

If you want to do more professional editing, you may checkout Cinelerra posted by phhpro.
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=2923

[francois]

Hi cttan:
Thanks for cinerella. I have come by this package a long time ago. I will have a look at it.

[cttan]

@francois
After downloaded the Cinelerra, I have not mess with it too.
Can't really find my ways through the buttons. Maybe need to download the manual and read up a bit.

[Slaxmax]

for me kdenlive is better
see this tutorial (in portuguese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtWaN_g ... FC0gZgSa8w

[francois]

Thanks slaxmax for the input. I did look at it. But lets say that my limited knowledge of brasilian hurts.

[cttan]

Hi francois,

You can try out Pitivi from usm but require below deps.

gst-plugins-base-0.10.36-x86_64-2.xzm
gst-python-0.10.22-x86_64-2sl.xzm
gstreamer-0.10.36-x86_64-2.xzm
pyxdg-0.25-x86_64-1sl.xzm
goocanvas-0.15-x86_64-1dj.xzm
pygoocanvas-0.14.1-x86_64-2gv.xzm
pysetuptools-3.6-x86_64-1ponce.xzm
gnonlin-0.10.17-x86_64-1gv.xzm
gst-plugins-good-0.10.31-x86_64-5.xzm
aaa_elflibs-14.1-x86_64-3.xzm
aalib-1.4rc5-x86_64-5.xzm
libcaca-0.99.beta18-x86_64-2.xzm
libsoup-2.42.2-x86_64-1.xzm
zope.interface-4.1.0-x86_64-1alien.xzm

[brokenman]

Updated server file. updating usm database should pull the file required to give pitivi all it needs now (Thanks cttan)

[francois]

pitivi:
http://www.pitivi.org/
a Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface, a clean codebase and a fantastic community. Join us?
I will buy that. I will try it this week or the next as soon as I can get enough free time.

GSoC (Google Summer of Code at the Linux Foundation). Is google on the right side or on the wrong side? Julian Assange or NSA?

Thanks to both of you, cttan for pitivi and brokenman for making it readily available on usm (slackware-porteus).

[francois]

@brokenman:
usm did not brought up all the necessary dependencies for pitivi. Is there something special here?
Thanks.

[brokenman]

Quite right. Please remove the following file and then run usm -u all again. If you have updated in the last 3 hours it will skip all the slackware database files and just update the extra-deps.txt file.

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rm /etc/usm/extra-deps.txt
usm -u all

The update to USM hasn't been pushed to the server yet.

[Bogomips]

Started pitivi, and it couldn't even open an mp4 file Wants a codec. Tried VLC one without success. Would be helpful to know which one/set works best.

[Bogomips]

Pitivi Progress

Put together two clips, both mp4 with same characteristics, one 42MB, the other 32MB. Pitivi recommended ogg with Theora codec, giving resultant file of 54MB. Great I thought. Savings of 20MB. Played file, no picture, only sound. Ever since with other combinations giving both picture and sound, the whole has been greater than the sum of the parts, to be expected in psychology maybe , but not here where a significant reduction is to be expected. Now applying Handbrake (Wow, for the first time USM has made me a module I can use straight off!) to see if this will do the trick.

Original clips: 42M The\ Switch\ part\ 1.mp4 32M The\ Switch\ part\ 2.mp4

Combined clips:
78M The\ Switch.m4v
118M The\ Switch.mkv
93M The\ Switch.mp4
171M The\ Switch.wmv

Best so far 78MB as opposed to combined total of 74MB. So, next on agenda: reducing bit rate, framerate, CFR, x264, etc.

[Rava]

Pitivi Progress

Is there a x86-64 for port 3.1 available?

I try to put it together, but usm fails me once again...

usm -s pitivi

pitivi-0.15.2-x86_64-1dj.txz was found in salix [not installed]
Packages found: 1

Use: usm -i <package> for more info
Use: usm -g <package> to download

# usm -i pitivi
grep: invalid option -- '['
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.

Package: (2087 K) [not installed]
pitivi: pitivi (a free, intuitive and featureful movie editor)
pitivi:
pitivi: PiTiVi allows users to easily edit audio/video projects based on the
pitivi: GStreamer framework. PiTIVi provides several ways of creating and
pitivi: modifying a timeline. Ranging from a simple synopsis view (a-la
pitivi: iMovie) to the full-blown editing view (aka Complex View) which puts
pitivi: you in complete control of your editing.
pitivi:
pitivi:
pitivi:
pitivi:


# usm -g pitivi-0.15.2-x86_64-1dj
Nothing found for: pitivi-0.15.2-x86_64-1dj

# usm -g pitivi-0.15.2-x86_64-1dj.txz
Nothing found for: pitivi-0.15.2-x86_64-1dj.txz

# usm -g pitivi
Nothing found for: pitivi

(highlighting by me, the last 3 errors are printed in bold and red on the console)

Trying to put it together via pgks.org is tiresome, seems it needs tons of python and other dependencies...

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Requires

    gst-libav >= 1.4.0
    gst-plugins-bad1.0 >= 1.4.0
    gst-plugins-base1.0 >= 1.4.0
    gst-plugins-gnonlin1.0
    gst-plugins-good1.0 >= 1.4.0
    gst-plugins-ugly1.0 >= 1.4.0
    libcairo.so.2()(64bit)
    python3
    python3.3(array)
    python3.3(bisect)
    python3.3(cairo)
    python3.3(collections)
    python3.3(configparser)
    python3.3(datetime)
    python3.3(decimal)
    python3.3(fnmatch)
    python3.3(gettext)
    python3.3(gi)
    python3.3(hashlib)
    python3.3(json)
    python3.3(locale)
    python3.3(math)
    python3.3(multiprocessing)
    python3.3(numpy)
    python3.3(os)
    python3.3(pickle)
    python3.3(platform)
    python3.3(random)
    python3.3(re)
    python3.3(resource)
    python3.3(sqlite3)
    python3.3(subprocess)
    python3.3(tarfile)
    python3.3(threading)
    python3.3(time)
    python3.3(traceback)
    python3.3(types)
    python3.3(urllib)
    python3.3(weakref)
    python3-module-gst1.0 >= 1.4.0
    rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma)
    rpmlib(SetVersions)
    rtld(GNU_HASH)
    typelib(Clutter)
    typelib(Cogl)
    typelib(Gdk)
    typelib(GdkPixbuf)
    typelib(GdkX11)
    typelib(GES)
    typelib(Gio)
    typelib(GLib)
    typelib(GnomeDesktop)
    typelib(GObject)
    typelib(Gst)
    typelib(GstController)
    typelib(GstPbutils)
    typelib(Gtk)
    typelib(GtkClutter)
    typelib(Notify)
    typelib(Pango)

At least a list with the needed deps would be appreciated...

[Bogomips]

@Rava

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root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -g pitivi

 The following items were found.
 Choose an number to confirm. 
 ctrl+c to quit

1) pitivi-0.15.2-i486-1dj.txz
#? 1

Processing:   pitivi-0.15.2-i486-1dj.txz 

 The following packages are required. 
gnonlin-0.10.17-i486-1gv.txz [52K] [not installed]
goocanvas-0.15-i486-1dj.txz [201K] [not installed]
gst-plugins-base-0.10.36-i486-2.txz [1312K] [not installed]
gst-plugins-good-0.10.31-i486-5.txz [976K] [not installed]
gst-python-0.10.22-i486-2ponce.txz [264K] [not installed]
gstreamer-0.10.36-i486-2.txz [1332K] [not installed]
libcaca-0.99.beta18-i486-2.txz [536K] [not installed]
libsoup-2.42.2-i486-1.txz [452K] [not installed]
pitivi-0.15.2-i486-1dj.txz [2087K] [not installed]
pycairo-1.8.10-i486-2.txz [44K] [not installed]
pygobject-2.28.6-i486-2.txz [396K] [not installed]
pygoocanvas-0.14.1-i486-2gv.txz [55K] [not installed]
pygtk-2.24.0-i486-1.txz [1660K] [not installed]
pysetuptools-3.6-i486-1ponce.txz [312K] [not installed]
python-2.7.5-i486-1.txz [11764K] [not installed]
pyxdg-0.25-i486-1ponce.txz [72K] [not installed]
zope.interface-4.1.0-i486-1ponce.txz [168K] [not installed]

Total size: 21 MB

And for your codecs the FFMpeg Plugin:

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Installing package gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-0.10.13.2-i686-pkg.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.13 Gstreamer FFMpeg Plugin  
#  
# GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on 
# graphs of filters which operate on media data. 
# Applications using this library can do anything from 
# real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just 
# about anything else media-related. Its plugin-based 
# architecture means that new data types or processing 
# capabilities can be added simply by installing new 
# plugins.  
# Official mirror: ftp5.gwdg.de  

Cheers.