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From: Johnny B Good on 29 Jan 2008 14:49 The message <gemini.jvf3xn00r8d7k04ws.news(a)nospam.vanderhoff.org> from Tony van der Hoff <news(a)nospam.vanderhoff.org> contains these words: > On 29 Jan at 17:34 John <me(a)zen.co.uk> wrote in message > <6096coF1oper3U1(a)mid.individual.net> > > Hi Peeps, > > > > Any suggestions for a linux distro that leans towards video editing? I > > want to download video from my camcorder via firewire and edit using > > Linux. I will be using a 3Ghz Pentium 4, with 1.5GB ram, ATI 128Mhz > > graphics card and a 250MB hard drive. > > > I think you'll need a bigger hard drive.... ;) Jaws? Oh, wait, I'm thinking 'boat'. :-) Actually, a 'flotilla' of external hard drives would very nicely do the business (especially when you have _native_ Ext3 FS support to minimise the effects of the occasional "usb event" that causes the FS to emulate the invisible man - a traumatic event with NTFS) -- Regards, John. Please remove the "ohggcyht" before replying. The address has been munged to reject Spam-bots.
From: Nick Craig-Wood on 31 Jan 2008 04:30 John <me(a)zen.co.uk> wrote: > Any suggestions for a linux distro that leans towards video editing? I > want to download video from my camcorder via firewire and edit using > Linux. I will be using a 3Ghz Pentium 4, with 1.5GB ram, ATI 128Mhz > graphics card and a 250MB hard drive. What make of camera is it? There is more than one format for video over firewire. Assuming it is MiniDV for the moment, then you can use kino to grab and edit the files and send the edited version back to the camera, or make a DVD. Kino is a lightweight video editor - I find it has just enough features for me. It should work fine on the machine above. Note that you'll need 13 GB / hour for the raw minidv files, then the same again for the edited version, and then another 10GB free for the dvd you'll want to make. There are also ways of sending MPEG2 and MPEG4 over firewire which I don't know a great deal about. MPEG is harder to edit in a frame accurate way (which you can do with MiniDV. To answer your question, with a MiniDV camera, I'd recommend installing Ubuntu then using the package manager to install kino. -- Nick Craig-Wood <nick(a)craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick
From: John on 31 Jan 2008 04:42 Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > What make of camera is it? There is more than one format for video > over firewire. > > Assuming it is MiniDV for the moment, then you can use kino to grab > and edit the files and send the edited version back to the camera, or > make a DVD. Kino is a lightweight video editor - I find it has just > enough features for me. It should work fine on the machine above. > Note that you'll need 13 GB / hour for the raw minidv files, then the > same again for the edited version, and then another 10GB free for the > dvd you'll want to make. > > There are also ways of sending MPEG2 and MPEG4 over firewire which I > don't know a great deal about. MPEG is harder to edit in a frame > accurate way (which you can do with MiniDV. > > To answer your question, with a MiniDV camera, I'd recommend > installing Ubuntu then using the package manager to install kino. > Many thanks for that Nick. It is MiniDV and I'll check out your suggestions today. John.
From: alexd on 1 Feb 2008 07:27 On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:34:16 +0000, John wrote: > Any suggestions for a linux distro that leans towards video editing? Have a look at this series of articles on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/261820/ Very well written and worth a read. There have been other articles in the series but they're not linked from there so you'll have to JFGI. -- <http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (UnSoEsNpEaTm(a)ale.cx) 12:20:43 up 26 days, 2:46, 2 users, load average: 1.10, 1.12, 1.09 2x Broadband/IT/Telecoms support positions in Newcastle city centre. For more info call 0191 229 8870 and ask for Steve. No agencies.
From: Geoffrey Clements on 1 Feb 2008 10:25
"alexd" <troffasky(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:47a1bea5$0$510$bed64819(a)news.gradwell.net... > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:34:16 +0000, John wrote: > >> Any suggestions for a linux distro that leans towards video editing? > > Have a look at this series of articles on LWN: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/261820/ > > Very well written and worth a read. There have been other articles in the > series but they're not linked from there so you'll have to JFGI. > confusingly in the order of: part 1, part 3, part 2. but the author explains why :-) -- Geoff |