Ubuntu + Video Editing
July 24th, 2008
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At the moment my main machine is a 1.75ghz laptop running heron, i had a DVD to make from a movie on my camcorder, not a hard job at all, but my god, don’t do it on a laptop it takes aaaaaaaaaaaaaaages :).
1, use dvgrab to grab the video from the camcorder
2, import movie into kino and add a few text items
3, Encode the video using the DVD settings which output it to an mpeg file [this took 3 hours]
4, use dvdauthor to make the vob files and various other things.
5, use mkisofs to make the dvd into an .iso file to burn with your fave application.
Did all that and 3.5!!!! hours later had a dvd to watch, surely, apart from the obvious and get a faster machine, there has to be a better way? I’m seriously looking into macs.
Of the 3.5 hours total, you said it took 3 hours to encode the video. That could possibly be speeded up a little by using 64-bit linux, more memory, doing less whilst it’s running, or using multiple cores (if available) for the encoding.
The rest took half an hour which seems good to me.
A faster computer will do the trick, the time it took seems pretty normal to me on that kind of computer regardless of the OS.