Hey Pros!
I am looking for a fully featured video editing software to insert comments, mix music in, cut and convert my videos to the formats I wish. It should be the most complete and actual software around. Anything worth buying/trying?
Really - the price doesn’t matter here. My people and me need the Best of the Best.
Hit me with recomendations!
Hi
Avidemux from packman Avidemux - Main Page
I have packaged up in rpm format Handbrake http://handbrake.fr/ If this
looks interesting I can provide a link to the src rpm which you can
rebuild as an rpm for you system.
I also packaged up Gnome-Subtitles
http://gnome-subtitles.sourceforge.net/ which is available from the
opensuse search.
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So price is not an issue, huh? Sony Vegas 
Sony Creative Software - Vegas Pro, Vegas Movie Studio, and Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition
@microchip8: Err… that’s a software I’ve been working with, but this seems to be… a forum for LINUX, right?
Thanks though.
I’ll try Avidemux and Handbrake. Other recommendations are still very welcome.
Will these apps work on 11.1 or do I need wine to run them?
you did not deliberately stated in your question that you only want open source/Linux software. Also, I doubt that any of the open source solutions will come close to what some of the proprietary ones can do. Also, you said that $$$ is not an issue. Remember that open source (virtually all of it) is costless and I doubt any of the video editing open source software will charge you anything
You need Windows, I doubt wine can handle those, though I’m not sure
Hear, hear to what MC said
I stumbled across this article, I’ll let you decide on the conclusion but for me it was pretty conclusive.
Just Thinking About Getting Into Linux | Novell User Communities
Where do you have the rpm for handbrake. I have used it on occasion and would like to use it on 11.1.
Thanks.
I’ve updated the svn to Revision 2679 and placed a src rpm here;
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/handbrake-0.9.3-svn20090709.1.src.rpm>
It contains the relevant library files as well hence the 25MB size.
Changes were;
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malcolmlevis - Thanks for your great support here!
How exactly is it supposed to be installed? Yast quits rapidly on it…
Just a note 
You can’t cut comments, insert comments, mix music, seek to I-Frames precisely to do editing, etc with HandBrake. HB is just an encoding app, not an editing one as you requested in your original post
… just a note
Thanks for the note. Which one would you recommend for editing on Linux? You know, Vegas Suite is great, but it certainly doesn’t use the full machines power in a VM…
[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;2011757]I’ve updated the svn to Revision 2679 and placed a src rpm here;
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/handbrake-0.9.3-svn20090709.1.src.rpm>
It contains the relevant library files as well hence the 25MB size.
Changes were;
No offence, but how do I un-install handbrake. I used YAST2 to install it. and wanted to de-install it because it has done something to youtube. The page loads but all I get, instead of the video is a black rectangular box. Since Youtube worked before I installed handbrake, I figured that might be the problem.
There are IMHO only a few good options available in the OSS world
Avidemux. Great features, can do a lot, however in my experience, when you start throwing various filters at it and do some more complex things, it crashes way too often. At least last time I tried it it did so things may have improved. Also it used to have issues with frame delays and B-frames. Don’t know if this is fixed already
Cinerella - great no-linear features but horrible design/interface and often tough to work with. Had to fight a lot with it in the past
PiTiVi Main Page - PiTiViWiKi haven’t tried it yet but from the looks, it looks promising
Proprietary? Besides Vegas, maybe try some of the Adobe or Nero products
Hi
Handbrake? If so you need to rebuild the src rpm as a user!!;
rpmbuild --rebuild handbrake-0.9.3-svn20090709.1.src.rpm
Then it will needs build dependencies installed more that likely, so
just use sudo zypper in eg
sudo zypper in gcc yasm gcc-c++ libbz2-devel zlib-devel
There maybe more, you just need to add them. It will then build a rpm
against your arch which will show at the end of the build process in;
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/<your arch>/handbrake-0.9.3-svn20090709.1.<your
arch>.rpm
Then to install
sudo rpm -Uhv usr/src/packages/RPMS/<your
arch>/handbrake-0.9.3-svn20090709.1.<your
arch>.rpm
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Hi
Did you build the src rpm? Have no issues here…
To uninstall just use YaST or sudo rpm -e <name_of_rpm_> to uninstall.
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microchip8: Means that handbrake can’t do editing? Lame. And I wonder why no fully featured editing software is available for Linux… usually the world of Open Source is WAY ahaed of proprietary…
And for handbrake:
TheMask@pussypc:~> rpmbuild --rebuild /home/TheMask/Desktop/handbrake-0.9.3-svn20090709.1.src.rpm
Installing /home/TheMask/Desktop/handbrake-0.9.3-svn20090709.1.src.rpm
warning: user **malcolml** does not exist - using root
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/A01-configure.patch: cpio: rename failed - This operation is not allowed
error: /home/TheMask/Desktop/handbrake-0.9.3-svn20090709.1.src.rpm cannot be installed
Great. What’s messed up here?
No, HB can’t do editing. It’s just an interface to xvid, x264, lavc, etc for encoding and image processing like deinterlacing, IVTC, etc. It certainly can’t do what you ask for like insert/delete comments, mix music inbetween, etc
HB is in many ways similar to ffmpeg, mencoder and transcode, all of which are encoders/decoders and not editors
Hi
Move the file to anywhere but the desktop… put it in your home
directory. That goes for any file as it will barf if you try to do
something with it there 
As microchip said HB is just a re-encoder. For example, encode your
file to say mpeg4, then use something like avidemux to edit it, and you
could also use gnome-subtitles if required. I use it to convert files
especially home made videos from my handycam.
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