[Blackpool] Video Editing on Saturday

[Jon Chamberlain]

Hi everyone,

Hope everyone had chance to try out their fledgling editing skills
during the week.

As I said, we have barely scratched the surface of what OpenShot can do,
and video editing itself is a craft that needs to be practised in order
to get good at it.

Further reading can be obtained through the OpenShot online help manual
(which is excellent - link below). Also, happy to answer questions this
coming Saturday if you're around, or alternatively you could just post
questions to the mailing list and then everyone gets the benefit.

Give us a shout if you want any help! :-)

Cheers,
Jon


-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Chamberlain <jonachamberlain at gmail.com>
To: LUG Blackpool <blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Video Editing on Saturday
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:33:40 +0100

Hi Gents,

Just to confirm that I will be running a session on video editing this
Saturday 14th, at the LUG.

The plan is for those who are interested in taking part should ideally
install the video editing software I will be using, namely Openshot. If
you can do this before the day, it should save us all time. Make sure
you at least try and run the software to make sure it has installed
successfully. :-)

Hopefully, Openshot is in the repos for your distro, so it should really
just be a case of typing 'sudo apt-get install openshot' or using the
software centre (or whatever your distro uses). Depending on what distro
(and release) you use, this may be an older version, so recommend you
check out the download page (located here:
http://www.openshot.org/download/). I'm using Ubuntu Maverick, and I
used the PPA instructions to get the latest version (1.3).

You may also want to have a quick look at the manual, which is located
here: http://www.openshotusers.com/help/1.2/en/

Let me know if you have any problem getting installed. If necessary, we
will use some of the session to try and get everyone a working system.

I will be making use of some video clips during the session. These are
intentionally small, so that we can focus on the nuts and bolts of
editing rather than our machines groaning under the weight of HD
video. ;-) I will send either a link to DropBox or I might simply bring
them on a memory stick on the day.

Any questions, let me know.

Cheers
'Uncle' Jon