mindwave Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 many many years ago on win98SE I had a very primative "movie maker" program that worked very simply. you opened the application, and it opened with a series of "filmstrips" onto each "strip" you dropped a video files (.mpg .avi whatever) the application would then "link" together all these video files together into one big "project" which, in theory, you could then burn onto a DVD and pop it into any dvd player. of course win98se w/ FAT32 had the file size limitations, plus it all ran on an 800MHZ cpu so it was INCREDIBLY longwinded, rendering the files. but it was a nice SIMPLE approach. no flash no whiz bang, no rotating menus with disappearing text, it just "worked" anyone have any experience with a linux application that works with several different types of video files, and has a fairly simple approach? currently running AMD 5600 X@ with 4GB ram, 1TB of HD MDV 2008.1 that can do what I need it to do? essentially I'm looking to Link Together a bunch of smaller video files, of several different formats, and create something that can be burned directy to a DVD? I'm sure its out there, it could be right under my nose, just looking for suggestions! thanks J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 avidemux could be part of the answer: you can merge several video files, arrange cuts where needed, and export the whole thing to DVD format. It won't do the actual burn, though. Well, that's "as far as I know"; I never use those parts of avidemux. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 I've been using DeVeDe and Tovid-GUI recently. DeVeDe is much easier to use though. Just don't try to change the format from 4:3 to 16:9 because video tends to get jerky. If it was shot in 4:3, best to leave it as that than encode it to something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted May 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 cool thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 Pitivi: http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page is another nice, simple, easy to use video tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted May 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 IAN I installed DeVeDe and it looks like just what I'm looking for. But I am confused by one thing. IN XP, my "movie maker/dvd burner allows me to put 2 1 hours shows on a DVD and says its full. On Deevedee I loaded the same 2 shows, told it to create an ISO and when it was done it created a 2.9GB DVD instead of the 4.2 that the other app stated. I havent done a side by side view, but any idea why the difference? J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Maybe your Linux one is telling you the truth whereas Windows is telling you the size of the closed DVD. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 (edited) Perhaps due to the "quality" of the recording. I don't know much about creating DVDs on the computer, but my stand-alone DVD recorder has four "quality" settings which allow the recording of from 1 to 8 hours per disc, depending on the level selected. Jim Edited May 30, 2008 by jkerr82508 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 If you re-encode and degrade quality, you can get more on a DVD. I can encode at high quality and get one hour on a 4.7GB or I can reduce it a little to get up to two hours. You could go even further if you want, but quality would be worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted June 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 yeah I thought the same thing about the degrade quality and re encode. I just used the "defaults" on my 1st spin. I'll try it again tonite and see what a "standard" of 2 hours per dvd will yield. j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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