Kino makes video editing simple (NewsForge)

Kino makes video editing simple (NewsForge)

Posted Aug 24, 2005 13:04 UTC (Wed) by forthy (guest, #1525)
In reply to: Kino makes video editing simple (NewsForge) by LarsOlesen
Parent article: Kino makes video editing simple (NewsForge)

I don't use Kino (the GUI part), but the command line tool dvgrab only.
You can set it to export quicktime .mov files. This works fine for me, and
both mencoder and cinelerra can read the resulting .mov files.

For quick&dirty removing of scenes, mencoder is the tool of choice for me.
You simply rm the scenes you don't want to keep, and then mencode all the
remaining scenes into one mpeg4 movie (non-linear file-system based video
editing ;-).

I don't like cinelerra; it's crashy, the GUI is non-intuitive, and often
quirky. It is powerful, though (or at least it appears to be, being
crashy, I lost patience to try too much).

What I really would like to have is a render engine, which takes a command
script, and a GUI which allows you to construct such a command script. The
render engine should be capable to play such a script with at least two
movies and several effects. I don't like monolithic applications; the
non-linear video editor itself should not do the rendering, it should use
a command-driven render tool. The editor should be able to browse through
scenes, mark begin/end of effects, and so on - reliable, non-crashing.

Probably it's simply that I'm not a GUI person for complex tasks. I don't
typeset texts with a GUI editor, I use TeX. Why should I use a GUI for
cutting movies? It's ok to have a GUI to select points within the scene -
there you need the immediate visual feedback. Cutting has the same sort of
high-level things to think about as typesetting; you have chapters,
scenes, and intra-scene cuts. There's a lot more to it, but most of it can
be said in words without a thousand pictures (the thousand pictures come
out of the process, anyway).

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