<div>You could try Cinelerra, its very powerful and has decent documentation. Its a little unstable, and you'll have to use the CVS ebuild, but it seems _very_ capable.</div> <div>~Ian<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">darren kirby</b> <<a href="mailto:bulliver@badcomputer.org">bulliver@badcomputer.org</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">quoth the Thierry de Coulon:<br>> On Sunday 17 December 2006 04:34, Michael Sullivan wrote:<br>> > Can anyone suggest a simple, easy-to-use software package for light <br>> > editing of video files (cutting commercials out of MythTV recordings).<br>> > I tried to use avidemux, but it went into an infinite loop when I tried<br>> > to save the file after editing. <a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org"> bugs.gentoo.org</a> suggests to me that a<br>> > fix isn't coming. I need an alternative...<br>><br>> you might take a look at kino, I think it ca do this sort of things. Or I<br>> seem to remember about a work in progress names "lives" I think that wanted <br>> to be some sort of an open source iMovie, but I did not follow the<br>> progress.<br><br>Unless it has changed in the last little bit, kino does DV video only.<br><br>> I must admit that I have given up on Linux video editing for the time and <br>> do that on Mac OS... :(<br><br>As do I ... I tried kino in the past but it's just not there yet.<br><br>> Thierry<br><br>-d<br>--<br>darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: <a href="http://badcomputer.org"> http://badcomputer.org</a><br>"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."<br>- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org </a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>~Ian