Video editing on Linux with Kino
Two nights ago The Tech Show had Dan Dennedy, a developer of Kino on. Kino is easy video editing software for Linux. It was made to compete with Apple’s iMovie and Microsoft’s Movie Maker. Kino released version 1.0 about three months ago and has been getting large amounts of press lately. I think this is a great piece of software for Linux desktop users because of its ease of use. Now that 1.0 has been released, Dan said he is going to focus on documentation. His personal goal is to post 2 screencast demos per month.
I installed it to review the interface and menu options. I didn’t really do much with it because I don’t own a camcorder, so I don’t have any home videos to edit. Perhaps in the future I will borrow my parent’s camcorder or just edit some downloaded videos.
The only downside I have heard about is that on Debian based systems the install can get in dependency loops. This can be very frustrating to a user. However, Dan Dennedy said he has posted some instructions to help users through this issue on the Kino website. Kino is very easy to install on Gentoo. The command to install it is “emerge -av kino” and it installed without any issues.