[LAU] LAC: A musician's workflow slides?

[Jeremy Jongepier]

On 05/15/2011 12:31 PM, andy baxter wrote:
> On 15/05/11 11:18, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
>>
>> Hello Heikki,
>>
>> The tapes have been captured and I've started editing. So far kdenlive
>> doesn't like a system without PulseAudio or the avi files sitting on a
>> NTFS drive apparently so I didn't get very far yet. I'll continue
>> tomorrow.
>
> I've just been editing the raw file of my talk from the website in
> kdenlive (just to clip it, adjust the volume and add an introductory
> slide). It had trouble using alsa until I worked out that you need to
> install 'libsdl1.2debian-alsa'. (in ubuntu, probably the same in debian).
>

Hello Andy,

I've installed libsdl1.2debian-all on that machine. I'll try again with 
just the libsdl1.2debian-alsa package.

> Another gotcha that took me a while to work out is that the version of
> ffmpeg on ubuntu lucid won't read ogg theora videos properly, so you
> need to either use a newer distro, or compile your own ffmpeg from the
> website. (if you compile your own you need to add --enable-libtheora
> --enable-libvorbis to the configure flags to be able to export to ogg
> theora).
>

The tapes have been captured to avi as our DV players are attached to 
Windows 7 machines with Premiere Elements. I'm thinking about redoing it 
though, those avi's are just too big.

> One question I have is whether you have captured the screenshot and
> camera streams separately on disk to edit later? The raw video of my
> talk spends a lot of time faded to the screenshot.
>

I didn't capture the screen no. Would've been possible but it would've 
added another estimated 10 or 15% extra load on my tormented notebook.

> Hope this helps.
>
> andy
>

It does, thanks!

Best,

Jeremy