VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works 120
eldavojohn writes "Despite news that VLC might not have anyone to work on the Mac release, Lifehacker brings word of a video editor that the VLC team is working on dubbed VideoLAN Media Creator. It hasn't been released yet (git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git) but a pre-release is due out soon."
Re:Great! (Score:5, Informative)
VLC is great when it comes to playing media. I really can’t find fault with it on that front.
When it comes to encoding media... well, it’s good enough... usually... if you don’t mind playing with it a bit. (Admittedly it does seem better than it used to be. I used to find that more often than not the encoder would crash with some odd error in the message log.) It doesn’t seem to always create portable files – I’ve had output files that only played in VLC, or wouldn’t seek properly, etc. It can’t simultaneously capture the screen and the stereo mix (I have a .js that launches two copies – one to capture the screen, one to capture the stereo mix – and must recombine the separate video/audio tracks in an external video editing suite). Minor details like that...
I’m going to approach this with a considerable amount of skepticism until I find out how well this video editing feature works, unfortunately.
Re:Great! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Finally (Score:5, Informative)
VLC is already able to transcode media.
That said, I haven’t been overly impressed with its performance. Strange crashes, glitchy files, etc.
For instance, when transcoding a .flv, the first keyframe is always dropped – resulting in only a smear of black/gray for the first second or two of the output file.
Re:Avisynth (Score:4, Informative)
No way. Avisynth is a Windows-only product that is tied to Microsoft's APIs. VLC is a cross-platform application.
Re:Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah! (Score:2, Informative)
Ever hear of Kdenlive [kdenlive.org]? I use it all the time. Uses FFMPEG, has lots of nice effects, and the most recent release has been very stable for me so far ;)
Re:Sounds exciting (Score:3, Informative)
To be fair, while I have tried every video editor that runs on Linux and found every single one lacking, it isn't entirely their fault. They can't import, or see the camera at all, and I assume that's a problem in the system, not the application.
Well, something is screwed up somewhere, because "seeing" and controlling a DV camera over a Firewire connection is a pretty trivial and well-understood affair.
Indeed, it is simple. But allowing user level program access to firewire is actually a significant security risk, so most distros restrict access to /dev/raw1394, /dev/dv1394, /dev/video1394, or whatever the local device names are. This is probably the issue that GP is encountering. I make a shell script with the requisite "sudo chmod a+rwx /dev/dv1394" type commands to be run before invoking the program which is to control the dv camera and grab the video. These privileges should be revoked afterwards (and will be revoked on the next system boot, anyway).
Re:Sounds exciting (Score:3, Informative)
Definitely a driver problem. Kino especially is pretty good at importing from a DV camera. You'd have to fix it for VLC too. Try
# modprobe raw1394
# modprobe ohci1394
# modprobe video1394
Re:Sounds exciting (Score:3, Informative)
A beacon? Never heared of Kdenlive (http://www.kdenlive.org/) ?
The 'Penguin Land' already has a Sony Vegas killer. It's the AmaroK of video editing. It's Qt4.x and because of that cross platform.
Re:AVCHD Please (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah! (Score:3, Informative)
If you want a multi-track recording suite, check out Ardour.
http://ardour.org/ [ardour.org]
Re:What aboout Avidemux? (Score:4, Informative)
This has to do with errors in the broadcast you don't notice when watching.
To fix it you have to first clean the stream.
1. projectx to clean it. It's a nice little java program. Just start the GUI, open your file and choose quickstart. You can use the CLI as well
2. mplex -f 8 -o output.mpeg2 input.m2v input.mp2
3. manipulate output.mpeg2 with avidemux.
I've recorded hundreds of documentaries and shows (DVB-S mpeg2-ts), never had sync issues after doing this.
No need for it (Score:3, Informative)
VLC for Mac death is "greatly exaggerated" / What is Lunettes?
VLC for Mac is being maintained. However the old Cocoa graphical interface of VLC, is not being maintained at this time.
The reason is that we are in the process of rewriting a new interface for VLC. Its codename is Lunettes.
Why a rewrite? This is something really easy to see. VLC for Mac is just not "Mac" enough.
Taken from here. [videolan.org]
Re:Yeah yeah! Oh, yeah! (Score:3, Informative)
"I know it makes me seem like a total douche to put down projects that many people put a lot of time and effort into, but come on! The sound editor front is even worse! Audacity is today what Cool Edit was in 1998."
Actually, it's not even as capable as Cool Edit was more than a decade ago. Specifically, Audacity does not support MIDI, whereas, AIR, Cool Edit Pro did. And that's the main reason why Audacity is utterly worthless for music production: because it can't sync to MIDI. So, no drum machine, or outboard sequencer loops.
That's why, when the Linux fanboys point their lofty sneers at lowly Windoze, I just shrug. My old Windows 98SE box allows me to sync my drum droid to Cakewalk 9 to lay down kick, hi-hat, and ride tracks. So I use that, instead of a Linux box, because it actually works. And, in turn, I use Windows 98, because the audio interface hardware I use (the original 16-bit Layla by Echo Audio) doesn't have drivers that work with XP SP3. (Nor, I should point out, does it have Linux drivers.) Since I can't afford new hardware, I use a Windows box that allows me to do stuff like this [starkrealities.com], which Audacity would not.
And it's sad that that's the case, because I would like to be able to use Audacity on Linux, rather than Cakewalk on Windows.
But I can't.
So I don't.