I&#39;m curious about what people use for video editing in Linux.<br><br>I have a Sony Mini-DV Handicam, and now with a cheap firewire card I can pull video down onto my computer.&nbsp; I&#39;d like to ultimately end up making DVDs and short clips to share with the family and keep with the photo albums.
<br clear="all"><br>Kino is very simple, in fact I think it&#39;s too simple.&nbsp; After playing with it for a while I think I prefer Microsoft Movie Maker.&nbsp; I&#39;d have actually gone that way (my Windows work PC is a lot faster than my Linux home PC) but the Microsoft tool can&#39;t generate DVDs directly.
<br><br>I&#39;ve been playing with Cinelerra, which is in an entirely different league, almost like going from mspaint to Photoshop.&nbsp; Lots more features, but a bigger learning curve.&nbsp; In about an hour I figured out how to import the video files, edit the cutmarks, and splice them together with transitions, which is about all Kino can do.&nbsp; The kicker is to generate the final video you have to render it -- a 75 second clip with no complex stuff is taking over 20 minutes at DVD quality on my meager 
1.8GHz P4.<br><br>Any other recommendations or observations?&nbsp; <br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Sean<br><br>-- <br>Sean Walberg &lt;<a href="mailto:sean@ertw.com">sean@ertw.com</a>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://ertw.com/">http://ertw.com/</a>