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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com<paul.hartman%2Bgentoo@×××××.com> |
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> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> > My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my |
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> camera |
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> > broke, and I had to get |
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> > one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for. I wound up with |
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> a |
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> > fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera |
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> > and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive. The |
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> problem |
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> > is that its videos are MP4s, |
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> > which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing |
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> > about transcoding. My previous |
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> > camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks |
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> > browsers. The MP4s are huge |
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> > and in a weakly supported format. |
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> You might want to check out kdenlive which is a full-featured video |
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> editor (using mlt as backend) but includes a simple transcoding |
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> function and several presets for many different formats (with the |
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> added bonus that you'll be able to edit your raw video should you so |
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> desire). |
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Thanks, I emerged kdenlive. I can not open my MP4 files, but I can add them |
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as clips. Okay. |
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The clips do not play in any reasonable form. I get moments of sound, and a |
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few pixels |
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changing on screen; nothing coherent. I'd been told that H264 needs a lot |
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of CPU and I |
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guess an old 4-core 32-bit XEON (effectively 800 MHz each) on 2 GB ECC DDR1 |
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is not enough. Okay. |
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The killer though, is that I cannot figure out how to export that clip in |
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some other form. |
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And of course, I'm clueless about what form would be optimum. Asking for |
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help takes |
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me to a forum that has a thread on the topic, but no useful answer. |
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Is there a kdelive tutorial anywhere? One basic walkthrough and I'd |
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probably be able |
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to figure out the rest of what I want. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |