This is kind of a new area for me so I thought I would get the lists opinion. I have a avi video that I need to edit. The main thing that I need to accomplish is to maybe cut the top 1/3 of the frame and blur out a few faces. What would you guys recommend for an app that would accomplish this? Thanks in advance for any info.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Bo Lynch blynch@ameliaschools.com wrote:
This is kind of a new area for me so I thought I would get the lists opinion. I have a avi video that I need to edit. The main thing that I need to accomplish is to maybe cut the top 1/3 of the frame and blur out a few faces. What would you guys recommend for an app that would accomplish this? Thanks in advance for any info.
For the "cut" part of the task, I will suggest avidemux (from ATrpms). The "blur" part will require more powerful editing software such as cinelerra (from RPMforge).
Akemi
On Wed, March 11, 2009 8:30 am, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Bo Lynch blynch@ameliaschools.com wrote:
This is kind of a new area for me so I thought I would get the lists opinion. I have a avi video that I need to edit. The main thing that I need to accomplish is to maybe cut the top 1/3 of the frame and blur out a few faces. What would you guys recommend for an app that would accomplish this? Thanks in advance for any info.
For the "cut" part of the task, I will suggest avidemux (from ATrpms). The "blur" part will require more powerful editing software such as cinelerra (from RPMforge).
Akemi
Akemi,
I have loaded cinelerra from rpmforge but I'm having a really hard time getting the avi to even show up in it. I open cinelerra and go to file>load files and select the avi video but nothing shows up. I know this is a valid file because I can play it. Is cinelerra capable of editing already created AVI?
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Bo Lynch blynch@ameliaschools.com wrote:
On Wed, March 11, 2009 8:30 am, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Bo Lynch blynch@ameliaschools.com wrote:
This is kind of a new area for me so I thought I would get the lists opinion. I have a avi video that I need to edit. The main thing that I need to accomplish is to maybe cut the top 1/3 of the frame and blur out a few faces. What would you guys recommend for an app that would accomplish this? Thanks in advance for any info.
For the "cut" part of the task, I will suggest avidemux (from ATrpms). The "blur" part will require more powerful editing software such as cinelerra (from RPMforge).
Akemi,
I have loaded cinelerra from rpmforge but I'm having a really hard time getting the avi to even show up in it. I open cinelerra and go to file>load files and select the avi video but nothing shows up. I know this is a valid file because I can play it. Is cinelerra capable of editing already created AVI?
According to the documentation,
"Because AVI (Audio-Video Interleave) is so fragmented with varied audio and video codecs, you may not be able to play all AVI formatted files."
It's not looking good.
My friend who is an expert in video editing mentioned the other day "LIVES":
I have not looked at it yet, but that is another possibility.
Akemi
I have loaded cinelerra from rpmforge but I'm having a really hard time getting the avi to even show up in it.
I don't know cinelerra, and if you can believe, I don't have a single CentOS box w/ a desktop <heh> but I would presume you have to demux the audio and video into separate files as that is how most non linear nle's work...
Last time I heard of cinelerra, I looked at the docs and they looked very good.
jlc
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.
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
On 3/11/09, Kwan Lowe kwan.lowe@gmail.com 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.
cinelerra does crash, frequently, but if you read their documentation, they save after everything you do and when you restart it, you can immediately get back to where you were before the crash. Crashing is not a "feature", but they are well aware of it. :-)
It has (as Akemi pointed out to me) a steep learning curve, but it is extremely powerful.
My wife is trying to figure out how to get the audio and video synced properly, when she edits...
kino is much easier to learn, but probably much less powerful too.
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