Re: [PLUG] simple video edit - simply escapes me

["Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>]

OpenShot,  it's in Ubuntu repos,  and actually easy to use.

Lee

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> From: "Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>
> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:59:50 PM
> Subject: [PLUG] simple video edit - simply escapes me
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> I have a 26 minute screen capture video that I need to cut down to
> 9:30.  That is, I just want the first 9:30 - no fancy editing,
> effects, etc... just load, chop, save.  Is there an Audacity for
> videos?
> 
> I made this video using xvidcap screen capture.  It created a 59 MB
> mpeg file (test-0000.mpeg)
> 
> I tried kdenlive - it seems really powerful but it's not at all
> intuitive to me and the output options make me dizzy.  For example,
> why would I choose mpeg-2 200k 2 pass instead of mped-2 400k or any
> of the hundred or so other rendering options?  The two I tried would
> have taken over an hour and produced a file WELL over 100 MB in
> size.
> 
> I just want to shorten a video (he pleads.)  Anybody have any
> recommendations?
> - --
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