On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here, nothing would import video through the firewire port, even if I > just hit play on the camera and didn't try remotely controlling the > player from the computer (which didn't work either). Apparently the > firewire port does work enough that you can see the camera's been > recognised, if you look through the system logs. We should look at this more closely...probably in another thread. It might be a kernel regression..or it could be some sort of acl issue associated with the new authorization scheme that PolicyKit/ConsoleKit uses for device access. We need to compare notes..but not in this thread. And even if I imported > video via Windows, then tried to make use of the already captured files > in Linux, I got nowhere. And adding every available codec didn't help, > things, at all. > > Again, re-rendering lossy compressed video is to be avoided at all > costs, it's seriously detrimental to quality. And usually would be > completely avoidable, anyway, as most editing is "cuts only" which > doesn't need re-rendering, just interrupting the streams at the right > moment, and joining two streams together. pitivi knows how to deal with dv as source material.. and it does basic clip sequencing and chopping. I've use it to sequence a couple of things shot from the panasonic minidv camcorder that I have, and then used audacity to edit the sound track separately, then mixed the two together into a final theora video with vorbis audio. A topic for another thread. -jef -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
