arctic Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 I have collected some small (1-3 MB), funny mpg-videos from all over the web and want make one single mpg video out of them (so I can show my brother all the ouches and hahas with one click rather than with 50 single clicks). Now, the question is: which software that is included in Mdv 2008 might be the best one for such a task? Kino is, I guess, too much/complicated and not designed primarily for editing mp3 files. Is there any little, funny gnome tool that can do this easy task with a few clicks? I am rather a noob when it comes to video editing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkscot Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 I have collected some small (1-3 MB), funny mpg-videos from all over the web and want make one single mpg video out of them (so I can show my brother all the ouches and hahas with one click rather than with 50 single clicks). Now, the question is: which software that is included in Mdv 2008 might be the best one for such a task? Kino is, I guess, too much/complicated and not designed primarily for editing mp3 files. Is there any little, funny gnome tool that can do this easy task with a few clicks? I am rather a noob when it comes to video editing. There are lots of packages for this in Windows but not much in Linux. What about this? http://varsha.sourceforge.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 The one I use most is kdenlive.It needs more than a few clicks but does a darned good job at editing film strips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 Just did some research and first and foremost, I was simply too stupid for using kino correctly. Heh... :mellow: It does work perfectly. And I found out that there are some nice alternatives apart from kdenlive like cinerella, ahshaka or avidemux, too. Geez... lots of new things to explore. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Edwards Posted October 12, 2007 Report Share Posted October 12, 2007 Just did some research and first and foremost, I was simply too stupid for using kino correctly. Heh... :mellow: It does work perfectly. And I found out that there are some nice alternatives apart from kdenlive like cinerella, ahshaka or avidemux, too. Geez... lots of new things to explore. :) Well, believe it or not, if all you want to do is string a whole bunch of MPG videos together one after the other, the only tools you need are a terminal session and the 'cat' command. As an example, if you have 5 MPG videos you want to put together, you can do this: cp smallvid1.mpg bigvid.mpg cat smallvid2.mpg >> bigvid.mpg cat smallvid3.mpg >> bigvid.mpg cat smallvid4.mpg >> bigvid.mpg cat smallvid5.mpg >> bigvid.mpg If you then play bigvid.mpg using your favourite multimedia app, you'll have all 5 one after the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 The cli almost works, except that when I play the file, only the first of e.g. three parts works. After the first, there is an error on the format reported (I tried the command on three wmv files) Is there a way in Kino to adjust the play-speed of the video? When I import the videos, they are replayed with triple speed or so... :unsure: Haven't found the trick for that yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted October 13, 2007 Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 The cli almost works, except that when I play the file, only the first of e.g. three parts works. After the first, there is an error on the format reported (I tried the command on three wmv files) I've found that the cat command works with mpgs but not wmvs... I came across these commands to merge wmvs into an avi, if that helps: # first solution concat *.wmf to a avi-file: cat *.wmv | mencoder - -oac copy -ovc copy -ofps 25 -o blub.avi # second solution mencoder file1.wmv -ovc lavc -oac lavc -ofps 25 -srate 48000 -o file1.avi mencoder file2.wmv -ovc lavc -oac lavc -ofps 25 -srate 48000 -o file2.avi avimerge -i file1.avi file2.avi -o blub.avi Haven't actually tried them yet. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 I've found that the cat command works with mpgs but not wmvs...Aha... that explains it. Will try the other method later. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 13, 2007 Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 Use ffmpeg to convert the wmvs into mpgs, and then cat them together :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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