about twice a year, a local choral group puts on a show, and for the past several years, I've videotaped the presentation and "edited" it to produce a "vanity video" for the cast members. I've been using Premeire under win98se, but I'd like to move to linux (if for no other reason than to avoid file size limitations -- right now, anything over 2gb reports as a negative byte count, and there is a hard limit of 4gb/file.) I've tried using broadcast2000, but I couldn't get ANYTHING to "work" -- the interface would come up, the dialogs would let me specify stuff, but I didn't get any indication that what I chose had any effect -- I certainly couldn't get so much as a playback of a loaded clip. 4gb is roughly 18 minutes of video -- I have 8 hours of tapes to capture, edit, and produce [no, the concert wasn't 8 hours long -- I had 4 cameras set up -- the concert is actually about 2 hours with an intermission] Ideally, I'd like to capture an "entire tape" to a file, then pick-and-choose segments from each file; of course, this depends a bit on the underlying ability of the video editing program... I also have a couple of 80gb hard drives set aside simply for capture & work [output] so these can easily be reformatted from fat to ??? [which would be most appropriate for large files? SuSe defaults to reiser, but that is more suited for "lots of small files" -- reiser4 may be a possibility, but that won't be released until the end of the month (then who knows how long till SuSE gets it into their product...)] So, the questions I need answered are: 1) what do folks recommend for video editing in the first place 1a) what do folks recommend for the "audio" portion, if done seperately 2) what file system should be used to store the video 3) what do I need to install or enable to get firewire working (will this require a kernel compile? I'm using a "stock" kernel at the moment)