Linux and simple video editing
Possibly exhibiting my masochistic tendencies by trying to turn Ubuntu to the task of video editing. Avidemux is (just) up the job of cutting and splicing basic video, and not much else. Fortunately that's pretty much all that I'm after.
I'm training myself in the ways of multimedia in the hopes that I can use some video shorts of the Daily Show and Jon Stewart in a uni presentation this week. I'm doing it on Linux just to see if I can. I'm a little surprised that the answer to that last question is "yes". It's not like Linux is exactly renowned for being good at manipulating multimedia.
Admittedly my experience so far is that it's no Macintosh, but it's good enough for my purposes. Cheaper, too.
The next obstacle will be actually getting clips of the Daily Show that I can cut and splice. The Daily Show website still makes clips legally available to international viewers (unless you're Canadian of course), but it's actively hostile to any attempts to capture the video from the site for later manipulation. Nevermind, I'm sure there are alternative means of acquisition available.
Have had some success with a downloaded Youtube clip of Jon Stewart's Crossfire appearance. Had to use the command line utility ffmpeg to convert it to avi format so that avidemux could recognise it (which is odd, because I thought I'd read that avidemux could read flv natively). Looking at the manpage for the command makes me feel like I'm underharnessing it for something as trivial as file conversion, but I get that feeling a lot at the command line. May be able to do something similar with Daily Show clips if I can save the video stream to a file somehow.
After 2am. I feel energised.
I'm training myself in the ways of multimedia in the hopes that I can use some video shorts of the Daily Show and Jon Stewart in a uni presentation this week. I'm doing it on Linux just to see if I can. I'm a little surprised that the answer to that last question is "yes". It's not like Linux is exactly renowned for being good at manipulating multimedia.
Admittedly my experience so far is that it's no Macintosh, but it's good enough for my purposes. Cheaper, too.
The next obstacle will be actually getting clips of the Daily Show that I can cut and splice. The Daily Show website still makes clips legally available to international viewers (unless you're Canadian of course), but it's actively hostile to any attempts to capture the video from the site for later manipulation. Nevermind, I'm sure there are alternative means of acquisition available.
Have had some success with a downloaded Youtube clip of Jon Stewart's Crossfire appearance. Had to use the command line utility ffmpeg to convert it to avi format so that avidemux could recognise it (which is odd, because I thought I'd read that avidemux could read flv natively). Looking at the manpage for the command makes me feel like I'm underharnessing it for something as trivial as file conversion, but I get that feeling a lot at the command line. May be able to do something similar with Daily Show clips if I can save the video stream to a file somehow.
After 2am. I feel energised.