Software: Kino, OS Video Editor

One of my biggest worries about Linux has been a lack of video editor. However, at the last Linux User Group meeting I went to, someone corrected me suggesting that Kino is now quite stable.

I decided to give it a go. The first and only issue I came across was a permissions issue when trying to capture the film. Simply running with sudo fixed this problem and I had no setting up to do for it work with my Sony Camcorder.

At first, I really couldn't get along with Kino. It doesn't use the traditional timeline like I would expect to see in other sequencers, instead it runs vertically, and as far as I can see it is entirely linear.

Then there was the issue of applying effects. Each effect you apply, it generates a new file with the effect and updates your timeline accordingly. This removes the dynamic aspect of having effects and makes things much more permanent - not to mention confusing.

In the end, once I had worked out its quirks, It took me around 6 hours to fully capture an hours worth of footage, edit it, encode it and upload it to YouTube. Kino has built in support for mencoder, so I could kick it straight out as XVid

The fruits of my labour can be seen here, with me riding around in the snow this morning.

Kino certainly isn't a premiere competitor, but it's a competent simple video editor. It's biggest issue, much like The GIMP, is that of interface. From a technical point of view - it's great, it's purely an integration issue. If someone came in, and made it easier to use, it would really turn heads.

Well, I have been trying to capture some video and its not working . It looks like I may not have read/write permisions to /dev/raw1394 or Kino is not seeing my camera on dev/dv1394. Anyone have an idea how I fix that?

Ah! sorry, need to pay more attention. Yes, it does work under sudo! WooHoo!

NIce work on the bike and the vid!