On Wednesday 27 December 2017 10:47:14 Matthew Crews wrote: > >Here is an example of what I miss. Lets say I want a video editor but > > I don't know any. I would like to have some software where I can > > find free software suggestions classified by category and by user > > rating. I know there is Synaptic but I miss user rating and it shows > > too many packages even after a category is selected. Is there such a > > program in Debian? Thanks > > I'm not aware of an app per se, but have you checked the Wiki? > > https://wiki.debian.org/Software > > -Matt
For video editing, and because I have a Sony metal hi-8 handicam thats about 4x the resolution of most of the old vhs wannabe's, which it can control over the older firewire 400 interface, I am in love with kino. The handicam lets you pull video from the camera, like the 25 minutes work of a wedding, (way more than a gigabyte) slice out my camera shakes, and put it back out, either to the handicam, a vcd, or even with k3b's help a stack of dvd's to pass out to the families who starred in the production. There are no doubt even higher resolution cameras today, and this does require a firewire interface not found on computers now for a decade plus. But I've no clue if kino has kept up with the march to ever higher resolution cameras you can get today, or if its grown a usb3 interface most of those newer ones will need. Apple and firewire turned out too be a repeat of the compuserve and the gif patent, they let it get started as the next generation interface, then demanded a per seat price from the makers that was quite excessive, so firewire, like gif's in turn disappeared. usb2 is not fast enough to do this sort of i/o. There are other video editors, but none that I know of also integrate the cameras controller like kino does. Blender for instance is more a 3d graphics editor, for making animated movies than it is a video editor, IMO. YMMV. This is an application area that is not well served by linux offerings today. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
