Kdenlive & Sony Handycam Mini DV camcorder

If you have a Sony Mini DV handycam you may not be able to use Kdenlive. There is a workaround which may work for you and this workaround involves typing "gksudo kdenlive" at the terminal. This workaround may work for other camcorders.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ubuntu
• Linux
• Jaunty
• Kdenlive
• Sony
• Mini
• DV
• Handycam

[chillart22]

I'm having exactly this problem with a sony on jaunty.

Everything I try crashes and from looking at the comments I'm quite shattered that I may have to return to XP.

Is there any stable linux video editing program for any OS/linux?

I'll try this of course but gee,it's such a big need(vid) these days,I'm surprised..

[ubuntuhal]

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.

[chillart22]

unfortunately I just tried what you've done in this video to the letter and it would only work while the terminal was still open!twice I did that just to make sure.Very odd and ANNOYING,oh,and the captured video sample done with the open terminal isn't anywhere I've searched!

This is so upsetting after all...to have to go to movie maker

[ubuntuhal]

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.

[mshigorin]

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.

[scopeeyevideo]

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".

[deadfamousfans]

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.

[UbuntuHelpGuy]

Thank you 5/5

[zer0pixel]

Nice tip on project monitor folders. Solved my crashing issue due to low diskspace. Thank you.