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describes how to take your home movies off your digital camcorder (miniDV format), put them on your computer, edit them, convert them to a compressed format or other format suitable for posting on the web, or burning them to DVD and CD for sharing with family and friends.
== Intro ==
I have a video camera and several tapes with movies on them. I have always intended to take the movies off the tapes as they were recorded, and transfer them to my PC. Once on the PC, I want to edit the movies (delete scenes, add transitions, etc.) I also want to use the PC for either permanent archival (since disk is relatively cheap), or transfer the movies to CD / DVD for permanent storage. Actually, this is the biggest goal of all: turning my home movies into something on CD or DVD that I can easily watch and share. Starting the New Year off right, I decided I would take the plunge and finally do it. Here then is my tale.
LetThere are several fully professional "Non-Linear Video Editing" applications in the free software realm. I've only briefly toyed with them so I can's face t tell you from personal experience how easy it, watching home movies using your video camera and might be to do a collection of tapes is not too easy, nor too funquick project. It should be a lot easierBut Blender, like popping in a CD or DVD into the DVD player, then sitting back on the sofa with the remote controlOpenShot and KDENLiVE are amazing free software applications.
The equipment:
*Panasonic MiniDV camcorder with 1394 (firewire) port
*IEEE 1394 (firewire) card for PC
*IEEE 1394 cable
*PC with over 68 GB of free space and 756MB of RAM (On my Debian system running the KDE desktop, I can get this information through the KDE Info Center)
#coriander (version 1.0.0-pre3-2)#dvgrab (version 1.6deb-1)#ftplib3 (version 3.1-1-5)#gscanbus (version 0.7.1-5)#libdc1394-10 (version 0.9.5-1)#bootcd (version 2.45)#bootcd-dvdplus (version 2.45)#bootcd-i386 (version 2.45)#dvdauthor (version 0.6.10-4)#dvdbackup (version 0.1.1-2)#gstreamer0.8-dvd (version 0.8.6-1)=== Video Slideshows ===#liba52-0; [http://ffdiaporama.7tuxfamily.4 (version 0.7.4-1)#libdvdnav4 (version 0org/ ffDiaporama] : for making a slideshow video, and it's not bad.1However, it simply refused to render my project with a 'encode error'.9-3)#libdvdread3 It is also outdated (version 0.9.4-5last release in 2014)#syslinux (version 2.11-0and doesn't install properly on newer Ubuntu.1) The project itself is a fork of the even less maintained Diaporama#vdr (version 1; [http://imagination.2sourceforge.6-5)#vdr-kbd (version 1net/ Imagination] : is a simple tool.2 Last released in 2011, there is at least a note in 2017 that contributions are welcome.6-5)#vdr-plugin-dvd (version 0 The results weren't bad either.3 But, I still like the power of OpenShot.4-rc10-1)
Coriander is a GUI that lets you control all the features of an
IEEE-1394 Digital Camera complying with the DC Specifications v1.04 or
later (see http://www.1394ta.org).
'''dvgrab''' Grab digital video data via IEEE1394 links=== Transcoding ===http://programmer-art.org/projects/arista-transcoder
dvgrab receives audio == Mencoder and video data from a digital camcorder via anIEEE1394 (widely known as FireWire) link and stores them into one ofseveral file formats. It features autosplit of long video sequences,and supports saving the data as raw frames, AVI type 1, AVI type 2,Quicktime DV, or a series of JPEG stills.ffmpeg examples ==
'''gscanbus''' scan IEEE1394 (firewire/iIf you only want a 5-minute clip, the first thing to do would probablybe to throw away the other 55 minutes of video.link That should make allyour files load much faster. :) bus
gscanbus is a little bus scanning, testing and topology visualizingtool for You can extract the Linux IEEE1394 subsystem, part you want with some AVmplayer like this:<source lang="bash">$ mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy infile -ss 00:10:09.5 -endpos 00:05:00 -o outfile</C supportsource>"-ovc" means "output video codec", "-oac" means "output audio codec",especially for controlling Camcorders the "-ss" argument skips ahead to 10 minutes 9.5 seconds into thevideo, and VCRs"-endpos" tells mencoder to transcode exactly 5 minutes. It "copy" is intended as aspecial codec name that tells mplayer to just streamcopydebugging tool for IEEE1394 development, but can also be used the audio and video streams tosimply check your IEEE1394 setup on Linuxoutput.. (see [http://gscanbus.berliosessentially cutting out the5-minute segment that you want.de/])
'''libdc1394''' high level programming interface for IEEE1394 digital cameraThis can also be done with ffmpeg:<source lang="bash">$ ffmpeg -acodec copy -vcodec copy -itsoffset -00:10:09.5 -i infile -ss 00:10:09.5 -t 00:05:00 outfile</source>Note that the "-itsoffset" option must be specified to make sure thatA/V timestamps synchronize, and that its value must be the negative ofthe "-ss" argument.
libdc1394 is a library Note that is intended to provide a high levelprogramming interface , for application developers who wish to controlIEEE 1394 based cameras that conform to BOTH mencoder and ffmpeg, the 1394order of command-based Digital CameralineSpecification (found at [http://www.1394ta.org/]). This package contains shared librariesoptions and arguments is not just significant, it's HIGHLY significant.
'''libraw1394''' library for direct access To transcode the video, specify the output codecs as the "vcodec" and"acodec" sub-options to the libavcodec option (-lavcopts):<source lang="bash">$ mencoder -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=ac3 infile -o outfile</source>Here, "lavc" means to use one of the libavcodec codecs, specified bythe "vcodec" and "acodec" suboptions to IEEE 1394 bus the "-lavcopts" option (aka FireWirewhichspecifies options for libavcodec). mencoder has about a bazillion^2command line options, sub options, sub sub options, and can get quiteconfusing. ffmpeg can also transcode audio and video streams from onecodec to another.
libraw1394 is the only supported interface If you want to change the kernel side raw1394framerate of the Linux IEEEvideo, you can usesomething like this:<source lang="bash">$ mencoder -ofps 25 -oac copy -1394 subsystemovc copy -o outfile infile</source>Note that, which provides direct access to whenever you use "copy" as the codec, mplayer will copy theconnected 1394 buses corresponding stream to user spacethe output unmodified. Through libraw1394/raw1394,That means it will ignoreapplications can directly send any filters set up to and receive from other nodes withoutrequiring modify the copied stream. This is a kernel driver for the protocol in questionBIG gotcha.
'''libavc1394''' control IEEE1394 For example:<source lang="bash">$ mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -af volume=10 -o outfile infile</source>WILL NOT DO what you probably want, because with "-oac copy" the"volume" audio filters (specified with "-af") will be ignored, and theaudio in outfile will be at the SAME volume as the audio/video devicesin infile.
libavc1394 is a programming interface When capturing video in the US, you may also run into problems withvideo interlacing. Fortunately, mencoder has deinterlacing videofilters, for the 1394 Trade Association AVexample "-vf pp=lb". == See Also ==[[Video Editing/CMy Story]] (Audio/[[Category:Video Control) Digital Interface Command Set. It allows you to]]remote control camcorders and similar devices connected to your computer[[Category:Multimedia]]via an IEEE1394 (aka Firewire) link. This package includes the libraries needed to run executables using[[Category:Howto]]libavc1394.[[Category:Applications]]
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== Applications ==
==Debian packages added=Editing ===These are some of the free editing tools. More can be found at https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/Video; [https://www.blender.org/ Blender] : {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznQweUD9x0|300|right|Basic Video Editing in Blender|frame}}: is simply an awesome program. : It is used mostly for 3-d design and modelling, but it also is quite capable at video editing. : Blender works on both Windows and Linux. Lots of tutorials on YouTube (see right for example) ; [http://www.openshot.org/features/ OpenShot]: {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0nEHxtTjk4|300|right|OpenShot 2.0 reaches beta|frame}}: is another Linux only NLVE, and might be more 'beginner friendly' ; [http://ffmpeg.org/ FFmpeg] [[wp:FFmpeg]] : One of, if not ''the'' most useful tool in the land of multimedia is FFMPEG.; [http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode Transcode] [[wp:Transcode_(software)]] : tool is built using the libavcodec library of FFmpeg.; [http://www.avidemux.org/ Avidemux] [[wp:Avidemux]] ([http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/index.php?title=Main_Page wiki]) : Available in three user interfaces (GTK+, QT4 and cli) for all major operating systems. : Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It's graphical user interface looks pretty similar to VirtualDub and most features known from VirtualDub are available too. : Avidemux natively supports a great number of file types, such as AVI, MPEG, VOB, TS, MP4, ASF, OGM, MKV and FLV. At the same time Avidemux natively supports a wide range of Video/Audio formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP, H.264/AVC, DV, HuffYUV, MP3, AAC, AC-3 and Vorbis. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Video-DVD or (S)VCD compliant streams can be created with easy-to-use "Auto" wizards. Multi-threading is supported! See also: [http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=126164 FAQ] at doom9; [http://www.pitivi.org/ PiTiVi] : is a video editor designed to be user-friendly and powerful; [http://www.gopchop.org GOPchop] : is a "Graphical MPEG Clipper" - a Linux-based GUI program for removing sections from a video file with the minimum amount of disturbance to the stream. It does this by writing specific "Group of Pictures" (GOP) sections to a new video file. The GOPs will decode correctly and the gaps won't be noticed.; [http://handbrake.fr/ HandBrake] [[mw:HandBrake]] : is a software application that can convert MPEG video (including DVD-Video) into a MPEG-4 video file in .mp4, .avi, .ogm, or .mkv containers.; [http://kinodv.org/ kino] [[wp:Kino_(software)]] : Kino is great for working with the DV format and IEEE 1394 (firewire) interfaces; [http://kdenlive.org/ kdenlive] [[wp:Kdenlive]] : A nice "pro-sumer" (hobbyist, close to professional needs) tool. Kdenlive has instructions on how to make and add a tutorial to their site, including how to create and upload desktop recordings onto vimeo.com http://kdenlive.org/contribution-manual/how-make-video-tutorial {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kkaUd7nBKo|300|right|KDENLiVE|frame}} Currently only runs on Linux (but there are efforts to port it to Mac and Windows). ; [http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php cinelerra] [[wp:Cinelerra]] https://cinelerra-cv.org/: is a significant project, aimed at the professional user. It's both a NLVE and a compositing application. There is a friendly fork called the Community Version (CV) as compared to the original Heroine Warrior (HW) version.
=== Players ===; [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html MPlayer] [[wp:MPlayer]] : is one of the most essential players in the Free Software world. The project works in tandem with FFmpeg. MPlayer software includes the '''CorianderMencoder''' control IEEE1394 digital cameracommandline tool; VLC : vlc is cross-platform and wonderful. It even works on your phone.