OpenShot Video Editor

Video Effects

Asked by vplewis

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I am VP and have considerable sway into tech decisions for my school. We are currently running XP/Vista - I have been investigating moving us to Ubuntu for about 1 year - several barriers to overcome - the biggest 2 issues I face teaching tech on Linux are - lack of a Flash like tool for interactive web development - lack of a good video editor - and I've tried them all. Openshot is the 1st one I've tried that leaves me with a "Wow" - great interface, ease of use, and flexibility.

Couple of questions - what are the chances of some Chroma Key or Green screen being among the video effects (students love working with this) - and I get you can't get all things to all people.

What video importation techniques do you see supporting long term?

All the best with what is clearly a well-directed and effective team.

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Helen McCall (wildnfree) said : 		#1

Hello VPLewis

Thank you for your comments on OpenShot. We are currently testing our Ubuntu ppa which holds the .deb Ubuntu packages of OpenShot and its dependencies. Very soon now we will laucnh this ppa for public use. This will make installation very much easier through Synaptic on Ubuntu.

Once we have launched this Beta version with the ppa, we will be adding a number of important features. One of these is the includion of the Video Effects using the frei0r libraries.

Chroma Key will be included soon, though I am not sure whether this will be in the first or second pahase of adding effects. The MLT libraries already contain a very good and flexible Chroma Key implementation allowing full configuration of the key colour, and the variance (how far off the setting the colour is acceptable) and other configurations.

I am unsure what you mean by "improtation techniques".

The ffmpeg libraries support most video and sound formats in use, and those new professional formats not included (eg Redcode RAW etc) are being worked on at the moment.

Importation from cameras is particularly easy using standard Ubuntu Gnome interface. The linux based editors do not need to provide additional import from camera. If you plug your camera in via USB port, then Gnome will bring up a dialogue asking if you want to open the USB device in a filemanager. This allows you to copy your files quickly to the working project folders.

The same will occur if plugging a SDHC card etc.

I hope this helps, Helen McCall

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TonyKnott (tonyknott-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Hi Helen,

I'm not sure what the poster meant by "importation techniques", but he might be referring to getting a real-time live camera output via firewire, for example. If I'm not mistaken, Cinelerra and Kino support this and LiVES has extensive support for real-time editing.

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Helen McCall (wildnfree) said : 		#3

Hello Tony,

I think she might be asking that.

Helen

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 20:08 +0000, TonyKnott wrote:
> Question #82927 on OpenShot Video Editor changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/openshot/+question/82927
>
> TonyKnott proposed the following answer:
> Hi Helen,
>
> I'm not sure what the poster meant by "importation techniques", but he
> might be referring to getting a real-time live camera output via
> firewire, for example. If I'm not mistaken, Cinelerra and Kino support
> this and LiVES has extensive support for real-time editing.
>

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vplewis (lewisjd) said : 		#4

Thanks Helen for your clear answer - sorry for the unclear question - yes, I was asking primarily about importing video via Firewire into OpenShot - but also we are gradually moving to AVCHD - which I take it from the documentation won't be a problem. OpenShot has me excited about the possibility of Linux/Ubuntu again which I had almost given up on because of the video challenge.

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Best Helen McCall (wildnfree) said : 		#5

Hello VPLewis,

Firewire import is something we will be looking at soon.

The package dvgrab will import clips from a firewire equiped camera, but I believe it is a bit limited in what it can do.

I will get back to you when I have looked further into this.

Helen McCall

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vplewis (lewisjd) said : 		#6

Thanks Helen McCall, that solved my question.