On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> We are finally going to replace our VHS-C Camcorder, with a Digital >>> Camcorder, tomorrow. Looking for suggestions, >>> for Digital Video Editor to use on CentOS 5.2. Preferably, something >>> in the CentOS or RPMForge repositories and easy to use. TIA! >> >> Cinelerra. It is very powerful, and Dag kindly added to his repo >> quite sometime ago. > > It is powerful, but if the digital camera is a FireWire-based standard-def > DV camera, the right choice is Kino: > > http://www.kinodv.org/ I'm assuming it is a MiniDV format camcorder. I installed cinelerra and will try to install Kino now. > It is an editor specially made for standard-def DV material, it can > interface directly with the camera, it can process DV material natively > (lossless edit and stuff like that), can do projects, has filters and > effects, can export in a variety of formats, etc. > You can find RPMs on dag.wieers.com and in some other places; Fedora should > have the src.rpm as well. I'll try to install Kino with yum. If it's in RPMForge, I should be able to get it. > Cinelerra is more of a "generic case" editor. Plus, it's quite buggy. ;-) > If the camera is high-def, then I suggest using a Windows-based application, > especially if it's a newer AVCHD camera. Linux is not quite there yet in > high-def; maybe something like Cinelerra or Kdenlive will work with older > MPEG2 high-def systems, but you're pretty much on your own. > In fact, for pretty much anything except standard-def DV, Windows is by far > the better option. Maybe either Cinelerra or Kdenlive will pick up speed and > change the situation some time in the future. Florin: Thank you, for all of your comments! Lanny