I am looking for a tool chain (or preferably a single application) that can author a DVD from DV cam footage. Specifically- I have video footage on two DV Cams (both have firewire interfaces) that I need to edit into a single video stream. Additionally I may need to edit/substitute the audio track. I am looking for a graphical video editor here because there are sections of the footage I need to remove and cut about. I have a series of Digital camera stills that I would like to compile into a video slide show (possibly with a narrative audio track) I want to create a DVD menu for the above allowing access to either the video or the Slide show. With the option to have the menu skinned with a theme of my choosing Pie in the sky here but, If possible I would like to be able to mess with video effects, I would love to have access to a sepia style effect complete with film scratches/noise. I have a standard Firewire interface on my machine. I am not sure but I guess that any firewire interface is suitable for capturing from a Digital Video camera, do the camera's need some sort of driver or is there a universal capture driver ? If capturing from firewire is a problem then I can dub the video to DVD using a standalone DVD recorder (that has a firewire interface) and then extract the video from the recorded DVD's. Has anyone done this sort of thing on Linux ?
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:48:47PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I am looking for a tool chain (or preferably a single application) that can author a DVD from DV cam footage.
Has anyone done this sort of thing on Linux ?
Yes, you will need kino and dvdauthor (prettier front end for dvdauthor is http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ ) Kino can be found http://www.kinodv.org/ < there. Firewire is all automagic (usually). Ummm, that's about it. Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 22:26 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
Yes, you will need kino and dvdauthor (prettier front end for dvdauthor is http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ ) Kino can be found http://www.kinodv.org/ < there.
Firewire is all automagic (usually). Ummm, that's about it.
Adam
Ahh cheers Adam, looks to be exactly what I needed, apt-get'ing them from the ubuntu repositories now. The only missing part of the picture is the Dv i-link socket to Firewire lead Grrrrr
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I am looking for a tool chain (or preferably a single application) that can author a DVD from DV cam footage.
Has anyone done this sort of thing on Linux ?
Hi Wayne, Have a look at this, it's a very good howto on building DVDs. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709 It's a little gentoo specific, but once you've got the tools it'll work. I've used it to burn recorded programmes from MythTV to DVD. HTH -- Chris ---------------------------------- E Mail: chris@glovercc.plus.com SIP: 84411389@voiptalk.org IAXTEL: 17003366726
Hi Wayne,
Have a look at this, it's a very good howto on building DVDs.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709
It's a little gentoo specific, but once you've got the tools it'll work. I've used it to burn recorded programmes from MythTV to DVD.
HTH
Again cheers for that, looks like I will be having some fun once I have tracked down the required i-link to FW cable. At the moment kino is popping up an error about "default preferences for video creation have not been specified" as soon as I try and do anything. I am hoping that all will become clear once I actually have some video captured. The Kino user guide (what little there is of it) seems to suggest that there are issues with the 64bit version that may be fixed in the latest build but I would have hoped that the one version back in the 64bit ubuntu repository is at least partially functional....we shall see. Not linux related but seeing as we have some of the Norwich lot on list, does anybody remember what the theme tune to that classic Anglia Television program "Bygones" is called ? I want it for part of the soundtrack.
Ok I nearly have this working now. It is currently exporting a test sequence from the footage captured from the DV CAM. The export is taking a lot longer than I anticipated, I have encoded DVD mpeg video before at blazing speeds before (when backing up some of my more treasured film DVD's) but using the default options on kino seems to be taking ages (given that this is a pretty quick machine). Kino didn't seem to want to capture the video from the Camera so I fell back to using dvgrab (which seems to work really well) and then importing the captured video files into kino. Sepia effect seems to be just what I was looking for, there are some other interesting looking filters under the pipe menu that don't seem to do anything at the moment. I would like to add a film scratches filter if anyone knows of anything available.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:00:56AM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
The export is taking a lot longer than I anticipated, I have encoded DVD mpeg video before at blazing speeds before (when backing up some of my more treasured film DVD's) but using the default options on kino seems to be taking ages (given that this is a pretty quick machine).
Try tweaking some of the encoder settings, encoding mpeg does seem to be a bit of a black art, and having tonnes and tonnes of free memory seems to help lots.
Sepia effect seems to be just what I was looking for, there are some other interesting looking filters under the pipe menu that don't seem to do anything at the moment. I would like to add a film scratches filter if anyone knows of anything available.
If you start getting into that kind of thing then maybe you want to start looking at Cinelerra http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 it really is a daddy of a system but the "recommended system" is Dual Opteron 275 4 * 1 Gig Registered PC3200 RAM 500 GB SATA drive Tyan S2885 motherboard Gigabit ethernet of course, when i'm rich and I can afford such a system i'm going to be giving it a whirl. Of course if anyone around here is feeling rich+generous then please let me know ;) Thanks Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 10:19 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
If you start getting into that kind of thing then maybe you want to start looking at Cinelerra http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 it really is a daddy of a system but the "recommended system" is
Dual Opteron 275 4 * 1 Gig Registered PC3200 RAM 500 GB SATA drive Tyan S2885 motherboard Gigabit ethernet
Eeek that is some system requirement. Anyhow I managed to work out what packages I needed to install to get ppmfilter to work so I now have a nice scratchy noise filter which gives exactly the effect I was looking for. The only missing bit now is qdvdauthor. None of the recent versions will build on Ubuntu Hoary and it looks like I will run into dependency hell if I try and upgrade the bits it needs. Breezy has it in the repository but it seems to be broken in that there is everything in the package apart from the qdvdauthor binary. I was about to start building it on my ubuntu Breezy test system. But the updates released into the Ubuntu Breezy repository sometime last night have borked X on my test system. So it looks like I have a choice Fix my broken test box, Try and install qdvdauthor on something else, Upgrade my main machine to Breezy or find an alternative to qdvdauthor. I am very hesitant to upgrade my main machine to Breezy, in my experience with Ubuntu the 64bit tree lags behind the i386 one in terms of stability and package completeness.
You could always try using that HOWTO from the Gentoo forums... Takes a bit of work, but the results are good :-) Who needs qdvdauthor when you have pico/vi/emacs to do the hard work of editing an XML file :-) Chris On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 23:18 +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 10:19 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
If you start getting into that kind of thing then maybe you want to start looking at Cinelerra http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 it really is a daddy of a system but the "recommended system" is
Dual Opteron 275 4 * 1 Gig Registered PC3200 RAM 500 GB SATA drive Tyan S2885 motherboard Gigabit ethernet
Eeek that is some system requirement.
Anyhow I managed to work out what packages I needed to install to get ppmfilter to work so I now have a nice scratchy noise filter which gives exactly the effect I was looking for.
The only missing bit now is qdvdauthor. None of the recent versions will build on Ubuntu Hoary and it looks like I will run into dependency hell if I try and upgrade the bits it needs. Breezy has it in the repository but it seems to be broken in that there is everything in the package apart from the qdvdauthor binary.
I was about to start building it on my ubuntu Breezy test system. But the updates released into the Ubuntu Breezy repository sometime last night have borked X on my test system.
So it looks like I have a choice Fix my broken test box, Try and install qdvdauthor on something else, Upgrade my main machine to Breezy or find an alternative to qdvdauthor.
I am very hesitant to upgrade my main machine to Breezy, in my experience with Ubuntu the 64bit tree lags behind the i386 one in terms of stability and package completeness.
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