Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-12-02 Thread Florian Rehnisch
Marc Shapiro writes: > Also, what is the best capture and editing software for a newbie with > minimal needs. No flame wars, please. I know that Cinelerra is > available, but I don't know what else there is, or how easy they are > to use. For now all I really need to do is capture the analog s

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:47:53PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 11/29/10 16:52, Rob Owens wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been >>> running Debian since Bo. >>> >>> I have a lot of video

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-30 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
30/11/2010 16:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 11/30/10 01:03, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> Hi, >> >> apt-file search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw >> >> firmware-ivtv: /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw >> > > ~$ apt-file search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw > bash: apt-file: command not found > > ~$ apt-cache search

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/30/10 01:03, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, apt-file search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware-ivtv: /lib/firmware/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw ~$ apt-file search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw bash: apt-file: command not found ~$ apt-cache search v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware-ivtv - Binary firmware for iTVC15

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-30 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/29/2010 09:48 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > No worries there. I avoid KDE and any apps that use its libraries > like the plague. I used to use a few KDE apps (kate, in particular) > but artsd kept messing up my sound so that I had to kill it to get any > sound back. I got tired of that real fa

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-30 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
30/11/2010 06:47, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 11/29/10 16:52, Rob Owens wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been >>> running Debian since Bo. >>> >>> I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/10 16:52, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since th

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4cf46610.3040...@gmail.com>, Marc Shapiro wrote: >I used to use a few KDE apps (kate, in particular) but >artsd kept messing up my sound so that I had to kill it to get any sound >back. ARTSd is dead is KDE SC 4. KDE SC 4 does include Phonon, a common API or A/V manipulations, but it does no

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/10 16:18, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 11/29/2010 06:09 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I seem not to have mentioned it. My bad. If nothing else works for me then I could update to Squeeze. I'm running it on my netbook without any problems, but the desktop still has Lenny. My wife and daughter

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been > running Debian since Bo. > > I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will > degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes an

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:19:14 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> On 11/28/10 23:10, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> PiTiVi, OpenShot and Kino are the easy-ones (in the line of Windows >>> Movie Maker). >> >> I'll give PiTiVi and Kino a shot as soon as

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:19:14 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 11/28/10 23:10, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> PiTiVi, OpenShot and Kino are the easy-ones (in the line of Windows >> Movie Maker). > > I'll give PiTiVi and Kino a shot as soon as I get the card installed. Is > OpenShot a Debian package? I

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/10 04:24, Paul Cartwright wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any more (or VCRs?) I expect it w

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/28/10 23:10, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:31:10 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: When I mentioned this to a friend, he pulled out a WinTV card, using a Hauppauge PVR-250. Are there drivers for this in the standard kernel tree, or do I need to get them from somewhere? As per this doc

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-28 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:31:10 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been > running Debian since Bo. > > I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will > degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any more (

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-28 Thread godo
On 11/29/2010 06:31 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any more (or VCRs?) I expect it

Newbie video editing question

2010-11-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any more (or VCRs?) I expect it will be difficult to repair my two VCRs w