[LAU] [OT]: Linux non-linear video editors [WAS]: Writing jingles

[Lorenzo Sutton]

On 02/07/14 11:42, Louigi Verona wrote:
> Hey Lorenzo!
>
> Thanks for reminding me about xjadeo - I should try if I can use that
> tool to do the sync as well. Although Xjadeo does not play sound, right?
> Because I usually use  video camera audio as something that I am syncing
> the external audio recording to.

No xjadeo is a video player synced to jack transport. I'm not sure if 
you need to use the video camera audio for 1) editing the video itself 
(e.g. dialogue) or 2) sync the music, fx etc. (i.e. stuff you would edit 
in a music software).

1) obviously you need to do the video editing in your video editor, I 
think cinelerra has among the best audio handling features (icluding 
fader automation and audio plug-ins) out there..

2)
2.1 Extract just the audio of your edited video footage e.g. with

ffmpeg -i myvideo.mp4 only_audio.wav

2.2 Open only_audio.wav in e.g. ardour and add/mix, sync all the other 
audio stuff

2.3 Open myvideo.mp4 (although check the xjadeo manual for best codecs 
and options... in that case mencoder is your friend) and voilà...


>
> I tried Cinelerra today from community PPA and the big problem with it
> is that it does not read my format and I have no idea what to do here.
> Same with Blender - it looks very promising and cool, but these encoding
> problems are very tough.

Again I think ffmpeg is your friend (plus a bit of googling maybe and 
the cinelerra-cv mailing list which now-a-days is rather active)

Lorenzo
OpenShot may be unstable, but at least it
> rarely has such troubles.
>
> Maybe there is some way to make Cinelerra see all the formats?
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> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Lorenzo Sutton
> <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com <mailto:lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi Louigi,
>
>
>     On 02/07/2014 00:08, Louigi Verona wrote:
>
>         This is really a pity, because otherwise OpenShot is a great editor.
>
>         In light of my increasing video editing, I am sorry to say that I am
>         beginning to contemplate switching to Windows for video. I spent the
>         whole day today exploring video editing tools for Linux and it was a
>         total disappointment.
>
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>         1. Tried promising *Lightworks*.
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>     [...]
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>         5. Tried *Avidemux* and some other video editor from the repos -
>         both
>         could not even open an mp4 file properly.
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>     I'm not sure if that included Cinelerra. Cinelerra community version
>     [1] has recently regained momentum with lots of stuff going on. You
>     will most probably have to compile it (but that's relatively easy on
>     Ubuntu/Debian see [2] for an excellent guide), and it won't import
>     some formats out of the box.. but in my opinion it's worth a try. I
>     would keep ffmpeg ('original' version, not avlib) and mencoder handy
>     whichever software you use.
>
>     Also I'm not sure what your workflow for the gingle was, but for
>     audio such as sound-track, sound effects and so on (i.e. audio which
>     is not part of the video takes and editing cuts), I think using
>     ardour (or any jacktransport application) with xjadeo is a really
>     powerful workflow.
>
>     Have fun :-)
>     Lorenzo.
>
>     [1]: http://cinelerra-cv.org/
>     [2]: http://www.g-raffa.eu/__Cinelerra/HOWTO/compilation.__html
>     <http://www.g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/HOWTO/compilation.html>
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