Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-05 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 15:21 +, pmgazz wrote: > Thanks John - and we'll probably be doing another free PiTiVi workshop > (along with John's graphics workshops) in early Spring Last night, I had a play with Avidemux. I really am impressed by the edit facilities. In some ways it's fairly basic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-04 Thread pmgazz
Hello Barry, I have been using PiTiVi recently, after a great course run at Fossbox. We used an MP4 container with a DivX codec. Output of this was great and was relatively quick to render and is accepted by Vimeo and YouTube. I really liked the editing options in PiViTi and found it very eas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-04 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 4 November 2010 10:50, John Stevenson wrote: > Looking at the recently created OpenShot website http://www.openshot.org/, > it is looking a really good option for video editing, with lots of > features.  It also uses the Media Lovin Toolkit http://www.mltframework.org/ > as opposed to the Gstre

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-04 Thread John Stevenson
On 4 November 2010 09:50, Barry Drake wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 00:02 +, Bruno Girin wrote: > > Have you tried Lombard? [1] It's still a 0.1 version but it may be worth > > checking. It's done by Yorba, the same people who do Shotwell. > > Thanks for that. > > I've just looked at the Lom

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-04 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 00:02 +, Bruno Girin wrote: > Have you tried Lombard? [1] It's still a 0.1 version but it may be worth > checking. It's done by Yorba, the same people who do Shotwell. Thanks for that. I've just looked at the Lombard wiki. It gives some really useful comparisons. Howev

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 11:00 +, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there > > Just thought others might be interested in my experience of video > editing. I tried PiTiVi and was disappointed in the output quality. No > matter what options I tried, the result suffered from pattern > interference int

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-03 Thread michael
I used the tovid out of the repo's sudo apt-get install tovid and had to re-remember how to use the thing :D The following forum post jogged my memory a bit: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=183936 Michael On 03/11/10 21:39, Barry Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 19:14 +, mich

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-03 Thread Barry Drake
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 19:14 +, michael wrote: > Agree with you about PiTiVi, excellent front end but poor rendering. Since posting, I tried OpenShot and it seems to be a good GUI with good rendering. I may be using that in future to make the edit (from captures under Kino) followed by burning

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-03 Thread michael
Hi, Have just done a mate's wedding video. Agree with you about PiTiVi, excellent front end but poor rendering. I ended up converting the footage to digital video using ffmpeg and then used kino to edit and render into the end result. I also changed the sound track a bit by using Audacity to t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-03 Thread John Stevenson
On 3 November 2010 12:28, Barry Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 11:28 +, John Stevenson wrote: > > > > I have been using PiTiVi recently, after a great course run at > > Fossbox. We used an MP4 container with a DivX codec. Output of this > > was great and was relatively quick to render

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-03 Thread Barry Drake
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 11:28 +, John Stevenson wrote: > > I have been using PiTiVi recently, after a great course run at > Fossbox. We used an MP4 container with a DivX codec. Output of this > was great and was relatively quick to render and is accepted by Vimeo > and YouTube. I really liked

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-03 Thread John Stevenson
On 3 November 2010 11:00, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there > > Just thought others might be interested in my experience of video > editing. I tried PiTiVi and was disappointed in the output quality. No > matter what options I tried, the result suffered from pattern > interference introduced d

[ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-03 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there Just thought others might be interested in my experience of video editing. I tried PiTiVi and was disappointed in the output quality. No matter what options I tried, the result suffered from pattern interference introduced during the render. Kino captures and edits just fine an