Video Editing on Linux: Software references

Boulder Linux User's Group presentation: 8 April 2004

Talk by Ted Logan (jaeger at festing dot org)

Many of these programs have scary dependency graphs; carefully consult the documentation to determine how to install them. (Or use your distro's package manager.)

dvcont: Command-line tool to control DV camcorders
part of libavc1394: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libavc1394
dvgrab: Command-line tool to capture DV video
http://kino.schirmacher.de/
gscanbus: gtk tool to scan, test, and visualize 1394 buses, with some AV/C support http://gscanbus.berlios.de/
kino: Non-linear video editing for Linux http://kino.schirmacher.de/
cinelerra: Serious industrial-strength video editing software; hard to install and use, but powerful http://heroinewarrior.com/
audacity: Multi-track audio editing software http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
transcode: Command-line media conversion tool
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/
mjpegtools: mpeg and motion jpeg conversion utilities
http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
dvdauthor: Command-line dvd authoring
(Consult the manpage for plenty of examples)
http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
gimp: Powerful image manipulation software
http://www.gimp.org/
image magick: Scriptable command-line image manipulation tools
http://www.imagemagick.org/
growisofs: mkisofs frontend and DVD recording program; supports DVD(+-)R(W)
Part of dvd+rwtools: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/