After all these years of moving away from windows at every possible opportunity, last week, i had go back to windows. Video Editing is still not easy for a novice, or even to a slightly average user. (maybe i am wrong, i am writing what i faced).
We had shot some videos during the new year celebration in our office, and i was given the job of editing the video, add some subtitles, some title slides here and there, and such. I decided to give a try once more on linux. The last time i tried was in December of 2006, using LiVES on a Fedora Core 6 System, but i couldn't spend time back then.. This time i set up Kino, KdenLive, OpenMovieEditor on my Laptop which was running mandriva 2009. I did not have to time to compile and set things up, else i could have even given a try for cinelerra, about which i heard some great things. For audio, i went with Audacity which i feel is the best.
Kino was cool. I just could understand what is what, but when trying to use it, i had trouble at exporting. something was not right, and system kept hanging or it would end up doing the wrong thing,(i know, kino just does what i ask it do, so i can't put the blame on kino). KdenLive was also nice, the interface was interesting, and certain things were really nice, (i did not take time to note things down). But i ran into problem soon(may be i was ignorant to search the menus or google it). and Open Movie Editor just kinda freaked me out. ok i am not saying anything bad, but at the state that i was, i just kinda threw me out....
Since i was pressed for time, i had boot back to windows ( windows gets a point ), start up windows movie maker and start doing things. I can't say Windows Movie Maker is the most coolest editor ever, i have seen sonic something when i was in college and some other stuff, which were really wonderful. Coming back, i am using the software nearly after 5 years, the last time i used it was to set up a video of all the still pictures which we shot during our Karnataka tour with a background music, so i can say i was not much of an expert at movie maker too. But i was able to start off immediately and proceed and finish the job in a day.
May be the fact that i have seen people use Movie Maker, may have unknowingly made me know that these things are there, and how to do those things and stuff.
I will have to live with it for some time, but i will have to find something or do something, so that i can and the others whom i have created interest in and those whom i have converted to linux can do video editing. I wish i could it sooner, or atleast some more time to check out any of the above mentioned tools.
I used Open Movie Editor too!
ReplyDeleteThat thing sucks big time!
I used Kino, dvd::rip and DeVeDe ~September last year to put together a DVD for demonstrating audio/video equipment at a store I was working at. This was my first foray into any type of video editing, but I found the whole process to be surprisingly easy. Maybe because I'd never used (and gotten used to) any other video editors, or maybe because the project was simpler than what you had to do, but overall it was a painless process. Which version of Kino were you using at the time? I hear the most recent versions are a vast improvement over the slightly older ones - same goes for KDenlive.
ReplyDeleteThe tricky part about transitioning from Windows with this type of software (i.e., software that requires you to learn how to use it), is you only start using it when you need to get something done, at which point you don't have time to learn. Next time you're bored, you might want to take an hour or so and see what you can figure out. Peace.
Mike, What you said is right.
ReplyDelete"......is you only start using it when you need to get something done, at which point you don't have time to learn........."
I am still trying to figure out the options in Kino and KdenLive. I don't get much time to mess around with it. But whenever i am free, i try to get myself familiar with it.