On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jose David Cuartas Correa < josedavidcuartas@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello Renuka!
My advice
In my experience exploring different FLOSS tools like Cinelerra, Kino, Kdenlive, Open movie editor, Openshot video editor, VideoCut... etc
For video editing, I can tell you, that the best option is the PiTiVi video editor
I agree with the professor Nagarjuna, that Kdenlive is a good alternative, but in my experience using kdenlive i ever have some problems with it, because the sound support is not so good.
But now with PiTiVi you don't have this problem, because is handled by the GStreamer multimedia framework. This means that if you have installed all the Gstreamer codecs, you can edit all kind of multimedia formats and files.
For me, is a simple but powerful tool with a very good performance that also have a very simple, friendly and intuitive graphical interface.
I checked pitivi, I found it a very easy, light tool. It is however in the very beginnings of development, and doesn't have many features that kdenlive offers. No transition plugins, no way to normalize sound, add special effects etc. Keeping Renuka's requirements in mind kdenlive is currently the best bet.
But, I do like the simplicity of pitivi. If you have a couple of audio or vidieo clips or video clips and want to cut or join and render it is ready and recommended. Thanks jose for pointing it out. I wish someone can write a transcription plugin to it, it will be useful for me in transcribing speeches/lectures into text.
GN