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

http://www.pitivi.org/

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

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Nagarjun G. nagarjun@gnowledge.org wrote:

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:04:49PM +0530, renuka prasad wrote:

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hi all

could you please tell me the best alternate / replacement for softwares like pinnacle or neuando

intention is to use those in a digital studio, so which an all softwares

are

...

required

thanks in advance

renuka prasad

we use kdenlive, easy to use and sufficient for our pupose.

do we need to install any extra codecs / plugins etc , as i am hearing from the operator that there are many special effects in the proprietary softwares

for example some of the faculty want to have a small sized video of their lecture + practicals being demonstrated + presentations etc

Nagarjuna

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:40 PM, renuka prasad renukaprasadb@gmail.comwrote:

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Nagarjun G. nagarjun@gnowledge.orgwrote:

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:04:49PM +0530, renuka prasad wrote:

...

hi all

could you please tell me the best alternate / replacement for softwares like pinnacle or neuando

intention is to use those in a digital studio, so which an all softwares

are

...

required

thanks in advance

renuka prasad

we use kdenlive, easy to use and sufficient for our pupose.

do we need to install any extra codecs / plugins etc , as i am hearing from the operator that there are many special effects in the proprietary softwares

for example some of the faculty want to have a small sized video of their lecture + practicals being demonstrated + presentations etc

we do not use them, but the app has several sound and video filters. you can have multiple tracks, where one of them can be a small video in a corner of say a presentation.

Nagarjuna