On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera
> broke, and I had to get
> one in a hurry, and didn't really know what to look for.  I wound up with a
> fairly good Sanyo 1080p camera
> and video recorder that's super light, and not too expensive.  The problem
> is that its videos are MP4s,
> which are definitely not ready to put on a web site, and I know nothing
> about transcoding.   My previous
> camera took acceptable .avi videos, which had worked with most folks
> browsers.  The MP4s are huge
> and in a weakly supported format.

You might want to check out kdenlive which is a full-featured video
editor (using mlt as backend) but includes a simple transcoding
function and several presets for many different formats (with the
added bonus that you'll be able to edit your raw video should you so
desire).

Thanks, I emerged kdenlive.  I can not open my MP4 files, but I can add them as clips. Okay.

The clips do not play in any reasonable form.  I get moments of sound, and a few pixels
changing on screen; nothing coherent.  I'd been told that H264 needs a lot of CPU and I
guess an old 4-core 32-bit XEON (effectively 800 MHz each) on 2 GB ECC DDR1 is not enough.  Okay.

The killer though, is that I cannot figure out how to export that clip in some other form.
And of course, I'm clueless about what form would be optimum.  Asking for help takes
me to a forum that has a thread on the topic, but no useful answer.

Is there a kdelive tutorial anywhere?  One basic walkthrough and I'd probably be able
to figure out the rest of what I want.

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD