Alternative To Windows Movie Maker

[sledz41]

I was wondering if anyone here knows, an alternative to Windows Movie Maker.
Its an ok program, but from experience I've learnt alternatives to Microsoft always have there upsides and I don't want to be stuck to Microsoft's software.

[Refalm]

I'm looking for something that can do the same (and better) that "Ulead VideoStudio 10" and "Windows Movie Maker" can do for Linux, because I dislike going to Windows just to do some simple video editing.

[worker201]

Never having used Windows Movie Maker, I can't really tell you what to use.  But here's a short list of cool Linux video tools/apps that I have used:

Gmencoder: nice graphic frontend to mplayer's built-in video tools
AviDemux: useful for simple (linear: join two clips) editing and file conversion
mpgtx: command-line toolset for simple linear editing

And of course these are the heavyweight apps:

Cinelarra: fully functional non-linear editor
Kino: fully functional non-linear editor - but only for digital video


More than you'd ever want to know:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=23#23

[Refalm]

Kino looks really cool for simple editing, and Cinelarra looks like a great program, only it requires rediculous system requirements.

I'll try Kino.

[davidnix71]

What OS are you running. Win9x has the 4 GB file size limit of FAT32. Win2000 and XP don't (assuming XP Pro/NTFS).

What kind of movies do you want to make? I just bought a dvc that takes mp4 video with mp3 sound, that has a sd card, and doubles as a usb drive and mp3 player. I don't need software for any OS. After taking pictures, I just plug in the camera and it becomes a usb hd, copy the files over and I'm done.

If I want to encode the movie as something that will play on a tabletop set, then I have to play it through VLC first to recode the mp3 audio to mp4, because Toast won't take mp3 audio unless you buy a Jam license ($100).

Nero 7 will take an mpg avi and make it tabletop compliant. I've used Windows Movie Maker, but it makes WMV, which won't play unless you have Windozes.

XCDRoast won't do much for video in Linux yet. If you want to get in on the ground floor of Linux video, PiTiVi and diva are in beta testing. Wikipedia has links at the bottom of the Windows Movie Maker page.

[piratePenguin]

XCDRoast won't do much for video in Linux yet. If you want to get in on the ground floor of Linux video, PiTiVi and diva are in beta testing. Wikipedia has links at the bottom of the Windows Movie Maker page.

Isn't k3b the widely-accepted King of free burner-software for GNU/Linux?

XCDRoast, I've never really gotten it to work, but I don't remember it being half as feature-full as k3b.

I gotta say those 2 video editors you mentioned look nice. I better try our Sony camcorder tomorrow (don't think it has drivers, whatdayakno - Sony).

BTW,
http://www.diva-project.org/
http://pitivi.sourceforge.net

EDIT: I found some demos of diva from the author's website linked to here. videos (they're very big tho... he could've compressed them more) Looks class!

[worker201]

XCDRoast is a decent program.  Certainly has more options than I've ever had to use.  But I've never used k3b before, or had to do anything beyond building an audio cd.  I use command line tools like growisofs and dvdauthor to make dvds.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

For burning DVDs growisofs and mkisofs work perfectly ... for CDs I use nautilus-cd-burner (which is really just a frontend for cdrecord ... probably), but I can never get cdrecord to burn a single CD correctly from command line ... I have no clue what goes wrong, it says it burns it properly, but when I check the md5sum of the CD it gives a read/write error