Thread: Video editing on Linux

Kinow is a simple video editor for Linux. The series of video files in order are stacked on the left hand side panel, called the story board. To add a video to the stack, select insert a file after or before a current scene. Each object in the storyboard is referred to as a scene. To cut a scene, you will have to trim it, which is possible from both ends. If you have to use multiple cuts from a same file,

you will have to add the same file many times over and trim it at different points. You can also add a few basic effects in Kino. You can add transition effects. Unfortunately, you can add only one video effect at a time in Kino . A more complicated and comprehensive video editor for Linux is called LiVES.



This are more effects and transitions available on Lives. ecepnvely sImple, but the amount of features available are impressive. One of the things users might like to play around with the is the Live Vjing mode, which lets you map keyboard shortcuts to common video editing functions.

In true Linux style, you can then continue to edit, mix and add effects to the video in real time, while recording what you are doing.

These video editors are very small files (less than 5 MB), and although they can accomplish as much as something like Windows Movie Maker, there really is no free program for advanced multi¬track editing or with the same functionality of FCP, Avid or Premiere. So while Linux will do for most home video purposes, using Linux video editing for something like a corporate film or a college/school project is not advisable.