On 07/07/2019 22.52, Freek de Kruijf wrote:
Op zondag 7 juli 2019 22:43:48 CEST schreef Carlos E. R.:
On 07/07/2019 21.24, ken wrote:
Yeah, I've looked on the web and found reviews on linux software for video editing, but what do the people here find works easily and glitchless on opensuse?
Nothing.
I found nothing that would always work, easily. There are some that may work, depending on your needs. For example, I need an editor that handles two languages, both voice and subtitles, to do the simplest task: remove sections of a movie recorded from tv (ie, remove the commercials), do no recoding. Nothing works.
Did you do your tests with the latest version of kdenlive? I do not do anything with subtitles, but cutting out parts of the video works. A few years ago I also did put text on the images.
I can try again. I think I tried a year or two ago. Another condition is "do not recode". Which means do not modify the original, cut at the points where it can be cut, if necessary recode only the section till the next cut point. And use for that the same codec settings as on the original. Ie, minimal modifications. Trying. I start kdenlive. If I give it as parameter the name of the video to open, it crashes, says broken project. So I start it again and create new project. Now the problem becomes how to load the video into it. "Open" is not it, as it does not see the mpeg files in the directory. Perhaps it is "add clip". It suggests photos to add. No, I want videos, so I click on videos. A popup says "kioslave: ####### CRASH ###### protocol = baloosearch pid = 21463 signal = 11". So I try to navigate to the folder, and tell it to load the movie. I see ffmpeg working at full load. Ok, the process finished. I see what seems a preview of the first photograph of the movie. If I move the slider around, it goes black. I can see nothing. Ah, as soon as I click, something switches from project monitor to clip monitor. I can not make it stay on clip monitor. Ok, I have to do it in another slider. Ok, I found the start of the movie. How do I tell it "start copying from here?" I see "set zone in" and "set zone out". No idea what they are. Hovering the mouse offers no help. I try set zone in, whatever that is. A label in green appears, saying "In point". Trying to find the first commercial is going to be very hard. I'll just select any point at random, and it is labeled "out point. Now what? Maybe drag it to below... yes, it appears to be it. But it has dragged only one sound track. This is wrong, I can clearly select and listen to both tracks using VLC: one in English, Stereo, another in Spanish, Stereo. This is not going to work. Anyway, I hit "save". Does nothing... Ah, it is Render. I have to choose a format... wrong again, I want to keep the same format. I tell it to save the script, but I do not see where it is saving it. Try again, everwrrite? Yes, but where? It is supposed to be test.mlt. Ok, render it now. It is going to take two hours! And I selected only a few minutes of the movie. I'll tell you in two hours what it did, but I can see it is going to have only one audio track, and do it at an horribly slow speed - which is one of the reasons I wanted "no recoding". I know old software that would do the work, in java, but has been abandoned and can not load these type of movies. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)