Video Editing software?

[ff103]

Best video editor I have found for my use is OpenShot, excellent program, and lots of cool effects if you want them.

[Riki]

Best video editor I have found for my use is OpenShot, excellent program, and lots of cool effects if you want them.

Any tips for a quick start? The Preview only lasts for about 15 seconds and I don't see anywhere how to cut and save short clips. And how do you use the Effects? Nothing seems to work.

[ff103]

Hello Riki: if you google/linux, you will find the web site for openshot, it does some really cool stuff. For the effects, after you drag your video to the time line, you click the effects tab and just drag the effect you want onto your video. if you right click on the video in the time line you will get other options also. hope this helps.
here it is: http://www.openshotvideo.com/

[Riki]

Hello Riki: if you google/linux, you will find the web site for openshot, it does some really cool stuff. For the effects, after you drag your video to the time line, you click the effects tab and just drag the effect you want onto your video. if you right click on the video in the time line you will get other options also. hope this helps.
here it is: http://www.openshotvideo.com/

Thanks, I'll have another go.

[slax]

Of course you can install openshot from synaptic 

[ff103]

excellent point slax, I forgot to mention that.

[Riki]

Help/Contents. Synaptic is showing the OpenShot-doc package installed and yet I am getting the following error:



ff103 or anyone using OpenShot, can you get Contents?

[ff103]

i didn't install the doc package, so i do get that notice. I just played around with it until I figured it out.

[Riki]

i didn't install the doc package, so i do get that notice. I just played around with it until I figured it out.

I've nearly figured out OpenShot but I still can't cut/save clips. Not the easiest of programs! 

[ff103]

I believe just above the time line are some tool buttons, one is a "razor" tool to cut parts of the clip. try "export" to save your clip in whatever format you want.

[Riki]

I believe just above the time line are some tool buttons, one is a "razor" tool to cut parts of the clip. try "export" to save your clip in whatever format you want.

Many thanks for your help ff103 but without step-by-step instructions it is virtually impossible to work it all out. I'm abandoning ship!

[wedgetail]

Anyone looking for Audio/Video software perhaps detour to pclosMag index here:

http://pclosmag.com/html/sorted.html

I got quite absorbed in reading various items here, great start to get some overviews.  I happened to read the Video section and a few other bits.

[parnote]

Thanks for the link wedgeling, good stuff there.

I got quite absorbed in reading various items here

Me too, and I found (in an article wrote by parnote) one thing I wasn't aware about: how editing/transcoding repeatedly an audio file in a lossy format (mp3, ogg etc) will degrade its quality, and how is best to do the editing in a lossless format.

Good stuff indeed

To recap what dubigrasu is referring to ...

Convert your audio file to a lossless (WAV, AIF, or FLAC) before you edit and transcode. Then, after you have everything the way you want it, then save the file in one of the compressed formats (mp3, ogg, etc.). Doing your edits and transcoding in this manner will preserve as much quality of your original file as possible.

The article dubigrasu is referring to appeared in the August, 2009 issue of The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine. You can also read the HTML version here.

parnote