On Wednesday 11 March 2009 18:07:26 Kwan Lowe wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Joseph L. Casale
Last time I heard of cinelerra, I looked at the docs and they looked very good.
I've tried it. Alas, it would crash so often that it was unusable. I've used Kino a little. It didn't crash but I haven't done much with it besides re-arrange some clips.
You might like to take a look at the todisc/tovid suite of programs. You get the most power out of them if you use the CLI, but a gui does help with various aspects if you want it. I haven't used it on a situation like yours, but I tickled the edge of it, and was very pleased with the results. They have a very helpful, low-volume mailing list too. Whether it will read yoiur .avi remains to be seen, but if it will you can probably re-save it to any reasonable format, then your mainstream tools are also available to you.
HTH
Anne