Yellow Dog Linux

I've been using my powerbook G4 for video editing as of late and I wanted to switch to Yellow Dog but I've been putting it off because I don't know if it comes with a decent video editor like iMovie. Is there an included editor or do I have to find one from the open source community after I install?

I can't say for sure but I'm almost positive you won't find a good movie editor in YDL And you'd probably be hard pressed to find one as easy to use and functional as iMovie in the open source community anywhere... The only thing that comes to mind at all is Film GIMP.... which isn't really the same thing.

CharlesP

I dont believe that there is anything as simple as iMovie for linux (though ive never used iMovie-just premere) There is a program that will allow you to do high quality video and audio editting called Cinelerra; Here is a link to the site Cinelerra

I think you may be intereseted in Kino, a nonlinear video editor. It seems to do *most* of what iMovie does, if not quite as gracefully. I tried it on a B+W G3 (300MHz), which was *totally* unusable, but it runs nicely on my G4 466. Combine that with Mplayer and transcode, and you've got a pretty nice system.

(BTW, a YDL binary rpm for Kino is available at freshrpms.net)

How do I compile transcode? Whenever I try I just get errors, i've seen a patch but how do i use that I'm new to linux!

Thanks

A

I imagine that you are missing some dependencies. The Freshrpms yum repository has transcode available (at least for YDL3.x)

http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3

Sorry to reply to a thread that is a little dated, but here's a good Linux editor.