On 20 Jan 2006, suse@koepsell.info wrote:

Anyone have any open source favorites for video editing and encoding?

Avidemux2 for quick cut, paste, join, etc. For extensive editing, cinelerra- http://cinelerra.org/ (I use the unofficial CVS version).

My son and I have digital cameras that create video in .mov format.

The only editing software that will open mov files directly is an up to date version of cinelerra. Other wise you will need to transcode it to an avi or mpeg first.

We would like to be able to edit video, and my son needs to export to .mpg and .wmv for inclusion in class projects that use MS apps.

There are no Linux software that can export to wmv at this point due to patent issues.

I've been trying to build Avidemux, but keep getting hit with a lot of depends during configure.

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