I used to use MainActor until it did not work once I updated to 11.0. I would create small vid clips, w/fades etc… nothing major.
Under 11.0 I’ve tried:
kdenlive
LiVES (doesnt work, crashes)
Cinelerra
OpenMovieEditor
Pitivi
Kino
what I’m trying to do is add mpeg’s w/some simple fades and some text ala Nero.
Is that possible with the above listed software? Some of those if not all did not let me add mpeg videos.
-alex
I have no idea as to what Nero does re: text as I have not used MS-Windows at home on any “sort of basis” since 1998. But I use I use kdenlive for making movies, and it works well for me. It has a simple user interface. It handles mpegs. It will also do simple fades. One can add text …
I’ve wasted far too much time on Cinelerra and never produced anything of value with it, so I avoid it like the plague. Its user interface is simply too obscure for me.
I also found LiVES to be unstable (but I have not tried it for 2 years) and I found OpenMovieEditor and Pitivi limited in features (but its also been two years since I tried them). Kino did not support my camera’s video formats so I never got into testing it.
Here is a link to a wiki that I hope to keep maintained by technical contributions:
Video editing - openSUSE
If I belated add to this post:themagicm found MainActor useful, as we have; it was always optimised for each Suse release; so we have Suse 9.3 as an install, with its 9.3version of MainActor available; those that are lucky enough to have a copy of MainActor could usefully keep an install of an older version of Suse, just to run MainActor; I find it does well what we want; transitions; insert/delete audio; it will happily make a 60min MPEG for us; no problems;
thanks for the link to the wiki oldcpu; the keeper could do with a hand to keep it updated
the Suse culture is not to have too many stickies at the start of each forum, but some of oldcpu’s insights could be very useful to newbies on “which video editing programme can I now use as I have started using linux?”
yes, I’ve seen the wiki page… helpful stuff.
@pdc_2:
good idea… a little overkill but I’ll try that if I dont find anything else. I can install 9.3 on a VirtualBox session. thanks