Have spent some hours today trying to figure out how to edit video and create DVD’s when running Ubuntu. After some reading I ended up trying Kino. First challenge was to import the files from my camera, the Canon FS11. The actual import is not that hard, just plug the USB and navigate in the folder structure of the camera and import.
But, there is an issue with the files on the camera, they are saved using the MOD-file format. Found this post at srixmk.blogspot.com describing how to convert them to avi-format. I used the script but changed it a bit. I wanted to convert the files to .DV, which is the format KINO wants. Thanks to another post that was solved easily as well. So now I have a script which changes the default name of the files to the format yyyyMMddHHMM.dv while converting them to DV and afterwards just deletes the MOD-file. I named the script convertmodfiles.sh, thanks to srixmk for making the script which I just edited a bit.
Then I started testing KINO, using tutorials like “Making movies with KINO” and the “Adding titles and credits. But I could not get it to work, since I did not find “DV Titler” in the drop down menu of available vidoe filters. After very much cursing, I suddenly realized, even though I started to get really tired, that first of all: You don’t need to install DVTitler separately as a plugin, it is included when installing KINO, but…it is labled in the drop down menu as “Titler”. Gotta learn to use my eyes…doh…
So now to bed!