Kino - video editing on Linux

Kino

kino is a non-linear digital video editor for GNU/Linux.

I use it for capturing DV from my Canon MVX1i camcorder via IEEE1394 and doing simple editing, mainly cutting and trimming.

DV export scripts

kino 0.7.0 supports video export by piping DV into a shell script. Based on the example scripts that come with kino, I started writing my own scripts that I'd like to share. These scripts are work in progress and provided as is, feel free to mail me corrections or suggestions for improvement.

To use the scripts, do e.g.

• mkdir -p ~/kino/exports
• cp mpeg-0.1.sh ~/kino/exports/mpeg.sh
• chmod u+x ~/kino/exports/mpeg.sh

After (re)starting kino, you should see a new entry in the "Tool" dropdown of the "Export" -> "DV pipe" tab.

DV export script "mpeg.sh"

It uses transcode and mjpegtools or alternatively ffmpeg to convert DV into MPEG. Several profiles are implemented to supply VCD2.0 compliant MPEG1 or SVDC compliant MPEG2, with or without deinterlacing and/or denoising.

The options I feed into transcode and ffmpeg are probably not perfect or even not correct, I did not test much yet. I'm thankful for comments/improvements.

What I've read from several mailing list postings, both encoders have strengths and weaknesses. mjpegtools are known to produce highly standard compliant SVCD MPEG2 files, while ffmpeg is much faster. The script currently concentrates on transcode/mjpegtools, since my personal emphasis is on quality over speed and I have not played much with ffmpeg yet. If someone likes to contibute profiles for ffmpeg, I'd be glad to include them.

Download:

• mpeg-0.1.sh

DV export script for DVD authoring

Kino developer Dan Dennedy posted a script at the kino-dev mailinglist which might serve as template for an export script to dvdauthor. Since I don't own a DVD burner, I have not played with it (yet).