Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:48:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Dear Debianists, thanks for all the useful comments on video editing etc. > I do have a few other questions that I have accumulated after investigating > this a little further. I have nosing into the various different kind

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Michael Fothergill wrote: --- Dear Debianists, thanks for all the useful comments on video editing etc. I do have a few other questions that I have accumulated after investigating this a little further. I have nosing into the various different kinds of camcorders that are about these day

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 15:48 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I installed Blender and had a little look at it. The documentation in > Blender says that you really need a good graphics card e.g. Nvidia GeForce > 7600 GS and that you need to install the proprietary driver for it to get > the ful

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
the transfer from camcorder to computer file does not have to be done by you, maybe you know someone who can do it and put it on a dvd. Other wise, you need something like a firewire interface and a camcorder that is computer compatible. Dear Debianists, thanks for all the useful comments

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
> There are also programs such as cinelerra and LIVE and things like > Blender that could be used to edit camcorder footage and enhance it. > In Etch itself some of these programs seem to have been made into > packages. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package that combines > them all into on

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 11:36, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:02:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> In Etch itself some of these programs seem to have been made into >>> packages. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package that combines >>> them

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread David Liontooth
Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:02:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > In Etch itself some of these programs seem to have been made into >> > packages. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package that combines >> > them all into one grand editing suite >> >> That's not The Un

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:02:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > In Etch itself some of these programs seem to have been made into > > packages. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package that combines > > them all into one grand editing suite > > That's not The Unix Way. > > Kino (which m

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 10:39, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I thought about buying a camcorder to make some films for a project at > work. > > I then began to wonder about using video editing software. I thought it > would be useful to add s

dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I thought about buying a camcorder to make some films for a project at work. I then began to wonder about using video editing software. I thought it would be useful to add subtitles to some footage and make diagrams and other visual aids that I could add to conventional foota