Perhaps the hardest part about moving to Linux from Apple will be losing iMovie for video editing. iMovie is incredibly simple to use and has a ton of good-looking, built-in themes, title scenes, and transitions.<\/p>\n
I tried many, many Linux video editors (PiTiVi<\/a>, KDEnlive<\/a>, Kino<\/a>, and OpenShot<\/a> spring to mind) and they all have big or small problems. I have two video editing tasks that make up 90% of all of my video editing.<\/p>\n Most of the time I want to take DV off of my standard def video camera, crop out a few scenes, stick on a title and credits, and rip it to H264 for uploading to YouTube. Kino is actually quite good at this, though it sometimes has trouble with exporting to H264.<\/p>\n The rest of the time I am taking MP4 clips from YouTube or ripped from DVDs and editing them for playing on my HDTV. I have found Handbrake<\/a> is nice for ripping DVDs to H264, and Cinelerra<\/a> works for editing and exporting.<\/p>\n I ran into a bug in Cinelerra with the AAC or AC3 audio produced by Handbrake – in short, Cinelerra saw no audio. A little bit of Googling turned up an easy solution<\/a>, and now I can rip and clip DVDs with ease.<\/p>\n At this time, I am satisfied with editing video on Linux, and I’ll be working on a nice presentation or two for the GRLUG<\/a> and\/or WMLUG<\/a> this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Perhaps the hardest part about moving to Linux from Apple will be losing iMovie for video editing. iMovie is incredibly simple to use and has a ton of good-looking, built-in themes, title scenes, and transitions. I tried many, many Linux … Continue reading