Well, most of advice from ubuntu crowd is crap as usual.
FWIW, I'm trying to move to (upstream-recommended) kdenlive from the very nice and polished but abandoned kino. Too bad the new firewire stack is STILL rather broken in linux-3.2... the former one worked like charm for me.
Superuser privileges for a simple device permission issue... Not a good policy in general. Just make /dev/fw* read/writable and you'll get access. If you want to know how to do it right (via udev rules, so the change sticks each time you reboot) web-search for "dvgrab permissions".
I use Kino to import video directly from my Sony minDV. The one thing you have to do is make sure the /dev/raw1394 has user "Other" set to Read/Write. Then in Kino, click the Capture tab on the right and hit "Play" on your Sony then hit the capture button in Kino.
Same here mine would only work when I ran as root which is a security risk. The captured video sample is stored under root and not in your home folder. You can change this in kdenlive settings. I know what you are going through and it is annoying. I've actually reported this bug to launchpad approx 6 months ago.
I dont know of any other video importers or video editors except kdenlive but I still get the same import problem with that. I often have to use windows now for my video work. I'm also surprised its still not been sorted out in Linux yet.
Very valid point. I've seen a few comments about this problem in Linux. Most of my friends use windows movie maker and produce some quite reasonable vids. If I get too many problems using kdenlive then I suppose thats what I'll have to revert to.
Sounds like a good idea. I forgot to ask before does the start of my video look white then after 10 seconds or so the video is ok. I tried winFF to encode the video this time instead of DeVeDe, not sure if its my pc acting up or if the conversion didnt go right.
Well, most of advice from ubuntu crowd is crap as usual.
FWIW, I'm trying to move to (upstream-recommended) kdenlive from the very nice and polished but abandoned kino. Too bad the new firewire stack is STILL rather broken in linux-3.2... the former one worked like charm for me.
mshigorin 1 week ago
Superuser privileges for a simple device permission issue... Not a good policy in general. Just make /dev/fw* read/writable and you'll get access. If you want to know how to do it right (via udev rules, so the change sticks each time you reboot) web-search for "dvgrab permissions".
scopeeyevideo 8 months ago
I use Kino to import video directly from my Sony minDV. The one thing you have to do is make sure the /dev/raw1394 has user "Other" set to Read/Write. Then in Kino, click the Capture tab on the right and hit "Play" on your Sony then hit the capture button in Kino.
deadfamousfans 2 years ago
Same here mine would only work when I ran as root which is a security risk. The captured video sample is stored under root and not in your home folder. You can change this in kdenlive settings. I know what you are going through and it is annoying. I've actually reported this bug to launchpad approx 6 months ago.
ubuntuhal 2 years ago
I dont know of any other video importers or video editors except kdenlive but I still get the same import problem with that. I often have to use windows now for my video work. I'm also surprised its still not been sorted out in Linux yet.
ubuntuhal 2 years ago
Thank you 5/5
UbuntuHelpGuy 2 years ago
Nice tip on project monitor folders. Solved my crashing issue due to low diskspace. Thank you.
zer0pixel 2 years ago
I think the proper way to say it is K-D-E-N-Live... But I say K-Den-Live too.
Anyway, I think it is the best video editor we have now... you can do some cool effects with it in your videos.
librano 2 years ago
lib -liv -live-? :x
frvfilms 2 years ago
that's one thing that's a downfall with Linux. There's not really any good video editors. Kdenlive is fine but it's far too buggy.
Cinerella is good But kinda hard to get used too.
FedoraFTW 2 years ago
Very valid point. I've seen a few comments about this problem in Linux. Most of my friends use windows movie maker and produce some quite reasonable vids. If I get too many problems using kdenlive then I suppose thats what I'll have to revert to.
ubuntuhal 2 years ago
yeah man, that's what i do
i use linux for everything and just windows for video editing.
FedoraFTW 2 years ago
Sounds like a good idea. I forgot to ask before does the start of my video look white then after 10 seconds or so the video is ok. I tried winFF to encode the video this time instead of DeVeDe, not sure if its my pc acting up or if the conversion didnt go right.
ubuntuhal 2 years ago
yeah, it's grey for like 16 seconds
i use devede, it get's the job done =]
FedoraFTW 2 years ago
Ok thanks for letting me know. I'll use DeVeDe to convert all my YouTube vids from now on.
ubuntuhal 2 years ago