[wellylug] Video Import / Edit

[Edouard Chalaron]

Rob

Vob files are mpeg2 files. Therefore compression is based on GOP, group
of pictures, e.g. that is probably the worst option in term of editing.
Whatever you do you will have to decompress your mpeg2 stream.

Best option so far : 

ffmpeg -i yourfile.vob -sameq -target pal-dv file.dv

The DV codec from ffmpeg is really good, that will minimise the damage
from decompressing this mpeg2 stream.
Once done, import it into Kino.

I would not have a look at jashaka, lives and other half dead projects.
Blender is not designed for that either.
The only one that is really getting serious under Linux is Cinelerra,
but good luck to compile, install and understand it and always go for
the SVN version.

In a nutshel : for a simple DV editing just go with the ffmpeg / kino
option
One done use mjpegtools to reencode the lot in mpeg2, that will give you
the option to launch Qdvdauthor, but then again good luck as it depends
on gazillion of other projects and result is not always reliable

If I may add, for the people who are considering getting on of these
camcorders (HDV for say) : forget about it, once you want to record
something with a bit of motion in it, more than grany having a cup of
tea, results are terrible (and BTW stream has no more info than a DV
stream @25 Mb/s)
If you want to go HD, get yourself a DVpro cam ($$$$$$) or like I did,
go back to super 8 mm, there is nothing like real movie. 
I am getting my frames in 1400x1200 pixels progressive frame in 422 YUV
8 bits colorspace. 
Hard drives are then becoming consumables (50 to 60 GB for 20 minutes),
but details and colors are from another world.

Good luck
Edouard

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