I currently am using DVGrab
<http://www.schirmacher.de/arne/dvgrab/index_e.html> to capture video from
my video camera, Kino <http://kino.schirmacher.de/> to do rough editing, and
mjpegtools <http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/> to convert the DV video files to
mpeg files.  mjpegtools can also convert to divx, as well as a number of
other formats.

	The 660Mb for 3 minutes sounds about right when you are talking about
uncompressed digital video.  An hour and 6 minutes of video takes up around
13GB on my system.  It is compressed down to about 660MB in Mpeg 1 format.

	I have tried Cinelerra, but have found it extremely unstable and unable to
read my DV files.  I would have to convert the DV files to another format,
then use Cinelerra to do the editing.  I'll wait until it can do everything
that I need it to do.

	I'm interested to try MainActor
<http://www.mainconcept.com/mainactor.shtml>, but the current version is
only available through the end of this month.  They are bringing a new
version out in December.

Later,
Gene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Chris Bier
> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 5:34 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Digital Editing Software on Linux
>
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>  Paul,
> I found this article from a google search.
> http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/consumer_video_editing_linux.htm
> It suggests
> http://linux4mac68k.free.fr/IEEE_1394/capture_0.2.0.tgz
> as a way to capture the data from the recorder.
>
> The dlink site states that your card is compliant with the OHCI
> standard, so the kernel driver should work.
> http://www.dlink.com/products/adapters/dfw500/SpecsTable.htm
>
> Cinelarra/Broadcast2000 is a really nice video editing program.
>
> Chris
>
> On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 09:57, Paul Taylor wrote:
> > *Note* I'm wholly ignorant in the world of digital editing.
> >
> > Two months ago I purchased a Panasonic Palmcorder PV-DV402D. It came
> > with a windows based program called Movie Messenger 1.1. After several
> > days of tinkering, I realized the software isn't very robust. A 3
> minute
> > video clip is 660 Mb!
> >
> > I purchased a D-Link DFW-500 IEEE 1394 compliant card to transfer my
> > data from Palmcorder to PC.
> >
> > What I'm looking for is:
> > Digital editing software that allows me to transfer from Palmcorder to
> > PC, edit live video, and take snap shots of video.
> > Encode in Divx or other formats.
> >
> > Anyone have some advice?
> >
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