[NTLUG:Discuss] linux movie question

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 07:41:17PM -0500, Fred James wrote:
> OK - from audio to video ...
> We have an old Cannon Supershot A70 that will shoot in movie mode,
> and it produces *.avi files
> Any advice for a video editor and also probably for
> saving/converting the files in something like mp3 - or isn't that a
> good idea?

For converting files, I've had really good luck with WinFF.
Don't be discouraged by the "Win" part of the name -- WinFF is 
available for Linux.  On Ubuntu, I just do "sudo apt-get install winff".

For quick-and-dirty video editing I really like Kino.  It
can import raw AVI and DV files and do some non-linear
video editing.  Once I have the video the way I want, I then
use WinFF to convert it to other formats that are easier for
others to view.

Hope this helps!

Pm