Creating a Music video

[Chipfryer]

Hi folks morning.

Ok I've been playing about with a lot of Linux music software. I want to create a video on Linux for me music. I've found that I can create a flash movie, convert it and post it to YouTube in pretty much any format I choose but....

If I just wanted to import the music into software and then match up various snips of video in sync. What would be my best route and software please? I have kdnlive various others too. Has anyone on here done this, do you have an example and some tips please?
Many thanks indeed.

Chipfryer,

[Louigi Verona]

I am using cinelerra to edit videos. In general, it is a good piece of software, however, I am having constant problems with formats. gtkRecordMyDesktop delivers ogv, but cinelerra accepts only mpegs or avi and so I have to reformat it and then it might have problems with rendering - last time I had a problem that the rendered file turned out with artifacts which made the video unwatchable. I had to manually cut out microparts of the video which sort of "started" the artifact process, something to do with frames being lost and going async with everything.

Anyway, point is - cinelerra is worth checking out, but be ready to spend time figuring out the formats.

[StudioDave]

Greetings,

These articles might assist :

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/kde ... tudio-dave

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/int ... g-openshot

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/it- ... vie-makers

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ope ... e-delights

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/cinelerracv-project

I also maintain a YouTube channel with experimental videos and clips of some of my students performing at a local coffee house :

http://www.youtube.com/user/newnairobi1

Btw, Kdenlive suits my purposes.

Best,

dp

[spm_gl]

@Dave, your review makes it look like Lives is actually usable for video editing. I'm looking for something useable on my Arch setup, and I won't install hundreds of KDE libs to watch Kdenlive crash. And jack transport integration is more than a bonus to me. I haven't really tested the latest Lives version, I guess I should.

[Louigi Verona]

When I tried Lives, I remember it did not seem to be able to do anything. Or so it seemed at the time!

[jaycapela]

I've had reasonable success using PiTiVi and Cinelerra in the past. I actually really like Cinelerra as an editing tool, but I too had problems with it and ogv, so to edit stuff that outputs from recordmydesktop, I used PiTiVi and it was gravy.

[StudioDave]

When I tried Lives, I remember it did not seem to be able to do anything. Or so it seemed at the time!

Exactly how I experienced Cinelerra. The things crashed so much it was unusable here. I can't use an app that crashes regularly. OTOH some people claim it's stable as a rock for them.

@spm_gl : I used LiVES for a while before switching to Kdenlive. I think LiVES is excellent for editing clips, but at last look it was awfully slow during multitrack edits. Maybe it's better now. I contacted the author concerning the slowdowns, but I haven't been keeping up with its latest development.

Btw, LiVES's JACK integration is nice, but OpenMovieEditor's is even better. And IIRC Blender now has a JACK-enable build option.

[Chipfryer]

Folks. Many apologies.
I didn't get a notice that there were posts on this.
Will look through.
Many thanks for the replies.

Keep well.
Chipfryer.

[GMaq]

Hi,

CinelerraCV 2.1 the community maintained version is "fairly" stable and in my recent experience quite capable of very good output quality if you know your way around ffmpeg command line, I tried it and gave up several times in the past and found taking time to RTFM and watch a few tutorial on Youtube and Vimeo was a necessity to get your head wrapped around using it successfully.

Openshot which hasn't been mentioned here directly is the best choice right now especially if you are in a non KDE environment, it uses MLT's framework like Kdenlive does and is under absolutely feverish development right now. The latest AV Linux ISO snapshots have a development version of Openshot working in tandem with Blender 2.5A2 to produce 3D Animated titles (a Linux NLE first). Openshot is very simple and straightforward to use and since version 1.1.3 is very stable. LiVES is also under rapid development and boasts JACK support, however it's indexing of imported files is quite slow and it is a little less conventional in the UI than some of the others, that said it is markedly improving with each release.

[Chipfryer]

Thanks for the replies folks. I've added the repo to my list (Cinelerra). I just get connection errors at the moment.
Does anyone have a compiled version for jaunty please?
Many apologies.

[zwenny]

Does anyone have a compiled version for jaunty please?
Many apologies.

This may help you:
http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showp ... ostcount=2