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Video Editing on Linux – Part 2

I recently gave part two of my Video Editing on Linux series at the 8/26/2010 West Michigan Linux Users Group meeting. In this presentation I talk about the many different editors available for Linux and give a demo of creating … Continue reading

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Webcam Recording using VLC on Linux

These instructions apply to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS and VLC 1.0.6 Goldeneye. Recording from a webcam on Linux has been very underwhelming for me. A program called Cheese comes with Ubuntu, but it has some shortcomings that really annoy … Continue reading

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Video Editing on Linux – Part 1

I gave the first of three planned talks about video editing on Linux at last night’s West Michigan Linux Users Group meeting. This talk covered file types, codecs, and many of the uses for FFMPEG. I promised to make the … Continue reading

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WMLUG Lucid Questions Answered

I gave a demo and talk about the newly-released Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS at the West Michigan Linux Users Group last night. There were a few questions for which I had inadequate or no answer, so I will try … Continue reading

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Pump Up the RAM

The guys in #ubuntu-us-mi were talking about “pumping up the ram” in a System76 laptop, and as always happens whenever someone mentions pumping up anything, Tecknotronic‘s “Pump Up the Jam” started looping through my head. Due to being fueled by … Continue reading

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