[GRLUG] SIMPLE video editing

[Michael Mol]

On 4/16/07, Topher <topher at wcsg.org> wrote:
> > Seconded, if Topher wants to do the legwork.  AVIDemux works fine for
> > rearrangements and stuff.  Just be sure to rebuild your keyframes before
> > saving the video.
> >
> > The other problem that comes to mind is the audio...I usually end up
> > with a video lacking audio.  I then have to open the new video with
> > avidemux, and "replace" the main audio track with a separately prepared
> > audio file.
> >
> > You can pull the audio out of the existing file using mplayer:
> >
> > mplayer -ao pcm:file=output.wav inputvid.avi
> >
> > You'll want to open output.wav in Audacity and remove the same time
> > slices from the WAV file that you removed from your video.  (To this
> > end, keep track of the exact times of the frames you removed.)  Once
> > you've exported your Audacity project as a WAV (or MP3) file, you'll be
> > ready to import it in AVIDemux.
>
> Uf da, that sounds like a bit of work.  I messed with it a little, and it
> seemed to slice the music as well, but I didn't save a file yet.

It is and it isn't.  Any task seems like a lot of work until you get used to it.

>
> Sort of unrelated, there was discussion earlier about cinelarra not having
> Ubuntu support.  At the time, I think dapper was the latest supported by
> the guy that supported it.
>
> I noticed today that he's released Feisty debs as well.  I tried it on my
> dapper box, but it's WAY overkill for what I need.

Cool!

Question: What were your system specs?  When I tried it on Fedora, I
ran into errors that I believe resulted from having a mere 512MB of
RAM.

>
> >
> > On 4/16/07, Joe Vanderstelt <thisboyiscrazy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I have used AVIDemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 4/16/07, Topher < topher at wcsg.org> wrote:
> >>> I have some mpgs of cartoons for my kids, and I want to snip the
> >>> commercials out.  Anyone know of a simple video editor for linux that will
> >>> let me do that?  I don't need movie production level stuff, basically
> >>> something like audacity for video.
> >>>
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