[Gllug] Video editing

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 12:14 +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> So in an attempt to drag things back on topic, I need to edit some
> video. I would have thought my needs were fairly simple. I want to cut
> off the start and end of the video. I want to have a static image that
> I'll use as a splash screen. I want that displayed for a few seconds,
> and then to fade that into the video itself. To me, that doesn't sound
> like it should be too taxing. So what's the best application to use?
> 
> So far, I've tried:
> 
> - avidemux
> - kino
> - lives
> 
> None of them seem to make this easy. Any alternatives I should be
> looking at? Any pointers on how to do it using one of the three I've
> already tried?

I've used kino for this and found it extremely easy to accomplish this
kind of thing with. That was a couple of years ago so I'd expect it to
improved even since then.

Certainly the editing of the video itself was amazingly easy.

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