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Re: [PLUG] DVD video production software
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qdvdauthor is open source, but lacks some features.
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Isaac Bennetch<bennetch@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Steven
> Phillips<stevenclphillips@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My wife is a kindergarten teacher and every year I put a "memory video"
>> together for her kids. Every year, it's a battle against memory leaks and
>> missing features (available in the Pro Edition!) This time around, The first
>> few copies rendered perfectly, but the last 25 lock up eleven minutes into
>> the video.
>> Anything open source that's capable of burning to mpeg?
>
> Not exactly, but I can try. You didn't specify whether your input was
> still photos or video, so I'm answering in as broad a sense as
> possible and note below where only one or the other need is met.
>
> DVD-Slideshow[1] may help. According to their wiki it can output to
> DVD or FLV[2], either of which are relatively trivial to convert to
> MPEG (well, technically DVD is MPEG-2, but I presume you mean as an
> MPEG-4 or similar file[3]). Seems to only support still pictures.
>
> Art's already mentioned Kino and other than Cinelerra, I'm not aware
> of many other FOSS offerings in the area.
>
> If you have access to a Mac, iMovie does this quite well and is
> generally bundled with the OS.
>
> And finally, if you're willing to cross over to the Dark Side, I'm
> told that Muvee[4] is good (but have never used it personally). It's
> neither Free nor free.
>
> Hope that helps,
> ~isaac
>
> 1 - http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
> 2 - other formats too, but those are the two interesting ones for conversion
> 3 - That being said, you could copy the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD
> to hard drive if all you want is local access to the files and skip
> any conversion at all.
> 4 - http://www.muvee.com/en/
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