Is there a Video/Audio Editor similar to Audacity?

[CD-RW]

I'm learning how to create my own screencasts with recordmydesktop.

Is there a Video and Audio editor for Linux that I can use to edit my screencasts?

I'd like to add graphics to highlight parts of the screencast, and also process the audio stream with EQ controls.

[Hlingler]

cinelerra? avidemux??

cinelerra RPM available from ATRPMs. avidemux available from ATRPMs, Doors, and RPMFusion. Beware of mixing 3rd-party repo unless you disable auto-updates and/or disable some.

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[scottro]

Did you know that Audacity is also available on Linux? It might only be in the rpmfusion repo, but it's about as similar to Audacity as you can get.

[Chilly Willy]

Unless you know something I don't, Audacity is AUDIO ONLY - I think the OP is looking for something that will do both video & audio that works as easy as Audacity. (I think I would too - if I were doing "streams" - shoot, I think I want it anyway, to edit my videos)

[CD-RW]

Thanks for all your replies. Maybe I was a wee bit terse in my OP.

I do want a combined Video and Audio editor, that will allow me to edit DV files, such as produced by RMD.

Something that will edit the video and sound components of the combined DV file.

I'm checking things out now in Smart PM description tab.

Will post my findings ASAP.

[scottro]

@ChillyWilly, I've used it about 4 times, in each case, for audio.

So, nope, I don't know something you don't, I was under the impression that he thought Audacity was MS only so was asking for something similar in Linux.

@CD-RW, I think that I'll just say, "Oops. Sorry."

[Chilly Willy]

Well, to be honest, I wasn't so sure either... Needed the OP to answer THAT one.

[CD-RW]

While reading about recordMyDesktop's Ogg-Theora-Vorbis file format on Wikipedia, I found this nice video editor, that will edit the above mentioned video file format:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinelerra

Cinelerra is a professional non-linear video editing system. It is designed for the GNU/Linux operating system. No support is provided for any version of Microsoft Windows. It is produced by Heroine Virtual, and is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License. Cinelerra also includes a video compositing engine, allowing the user to perform common compositing operations such as keying and mattes.

Cinelerra was first released August 1, 2002, and was based in part on an earlier product known as Broadcast 2000. Broadcast 2000 was withdrawn by Heroine Virtual in September 2001[1].As a professional editing program, Cinelerra requires significant computing power.

Notable features

Cinelerra includes support for very high-fidelity audio and video: it processes audio using 64 bits of precision, and can work in both RGBA and YUVA color spaces, using floating-point and 16-bit integer representations, respectively. It is resolution and frame rate-independent, meaning that it can support video of any speed and size.
Other features may be found on its features list.

Cinelerra interface


Cinelerra 2.1 being used to edit Footage in a video project.

Cinelerra's interface is similar to that of other nonlinear video-editing systems, such as Adobe Premiere Pro. However, because it includes a compositing engine, it may also be likened to compositing software such as Adobe After Effects or Shake. The user is presented with four screens:

1. The timeline, which gives the user a time-based view of all video and audio tracks in the project, as well as keyframe data for e.g. camera movement, effects, or opacity;
2. the viewer, which gives the user a method of "scrubbing" through footage;
3. the resource window, which presents the user with a view of all audio and video resources in the project, as well as available audio and video effects and transitions; and
4. the compositor, which presents the user with a view of the final project as it would look when rendered. The compositor is interactive in that it allows the user to adjust the positions of video objects; it also updates in response to user input.

It's packaged for Ubuntu, maybe we could have it included on Fedora sometime please?

[beaker_]

I apologies for posting without a direct answer but I do recall surfing across gnome and kde video editors. They were dumb enough, cinerella just blew me away, while giving a film like interface. I believe it even generate master key frames as you edited automatically. Unfortunely I'm more audio than video so... Best I can say is try searching the forums and goole for video editors... I think I surfed it by googking top 10 linux apps and then following the links. I'll post if I can find them in my history.

[Hlingler]

Originally Posted by CD-RW

While reading about recordMyDesktop's Ogg-Theora-Vorbis file format on Wikipedia, I found this nice video editor, that will edit the above mentioned video file format:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinelerra

It's packaged for Ubuntu, maybe we could have it included on Fedora sometime please?

Hm. Perhaps you missed Post #2 above?

Originally Posted by Hlingler

cinelerra? avidemux??

cinelerra RPM available from ATRPMs. avidemux available from ATRPMs, Doors, and RPMFusion. Beware of mixing 3rd-party repo unless you disable auto-updates and/or disable some.

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P.S. Here's a bonus bone: it's packaged and available at kwizart's repo: http://rpms.kwizart.net/

[CD-RW]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Hm. Perhaps you missed Post #2 above?V

P.S. Here's a bonus bone: it's packaged and available at kwizart's repo: http://rpms.kwizart.net/

I overlooked that post Hlinger. It must have been the bit about ATRPMS that put me off. I was also getting mixed up with cinepaint, which is not quite the same as a real-time video editor like cinelerra.

Also found the download page for the cinelerra community version at:

http://cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php

There are also some linux live CD distros that include cinelerra by default listed there.

[CD-RW]

Originally Posted by beaker_

I apologies for posting without a direct answer but I do recall surfing across gnome and kde video editors. They were dumb enough, cinerella just blew me away, while giving a film like interface. I believe it even generate master key frames as you edited automatically. Unfortunely I'm more audio than video so... Best I can say is try searching the forums and goole for video editors... I think I surfed it by googling top 10 linux apps and then following the links. I'll post if I can find them in my history.

Did you mean kdenlive?

Here is a list of OSS video software I found on Wikipedia:

Open source freeware

Non-linear video editing software

• Blender (3D animation suite) (cross-platform)
• Cinelerra (Linux)
• Jahshaka (Cross platform)
• Kdenlive (Linux/FreeBSD)
• Kino (Linux)
• LiVES (Linux/BSD/IRIX/Mac OS X/Darwin)
• OpenShot Video Editor (Linux)
• PiTiVi (Linux)
• VirtualDub (Windows media based)

Video encoding and conversion tools

• Avidemux (cross-platform)
• AviSynth (Windows)
• AutoGK (auto Gordian Knot)
• Cuttermaran
• FFmpeg
• Gordian Knot
• HandBrake
• MEncoder
• MP4Box
• MPEG Streamclip
• Nandub
• ppmtompeg MPEG-1 encoder, part of netpbm package.
• RAD Game Tools Bink and Smacker
• Thoggen (Linux)
• VirtualDub (Windows)
• VirtualDubMod (Windows) (based on VirtualDub, but with additional input/output formats)

Video encoding and conversion tools

(not sure if any of these are FOSS)

• Flix Cloud
• Movavi
• VideoGet
• Zamzar
• Zencoder

I also found this:

http://www.openmovieeditor.org/


So there are a lot of options out there for editing video