[CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> http://cinelerra.org/
>
> Akemi: My wife was successful with cinelerra, for the first time, last
> night.  :-)    I suggested she RFM, but when she is frustrated, like
> most people, she doesn't want to RFM. She really likes kino, easy to
> use, but there were problems, with the quality of some of the videos,
> after she used kino on them. One of these days, she will download the
> Spanish language cinelerra manual and read the Spanish language
> tutorial and then she will be on her way with cinelerra......   :-)
> Lanny

Thanks for the update, Lanny.  I use kino to transfer video (in .dv)
from a camcorder but, yes, its editing is not robust. By the way, if
anyone is having problems with kino and firewire connection under
CentOS-5, there is a solution.  It's on my little blog:
http://blog.toracat.org/?p=84 .

Akemi