1. Make simple and fun movies for freeBy Patrick Kennedy Twitter: KennedyPJ Filmcamp 2011in Vientiane, Laos

2. Linux as video platform

YouTube has tons of short videos.

3. How can you make videos for free? 4. How easy can it be? 5. Linux can do it for free. 6. Great selection of video editing software for Linux

OpenShot Video Editor

7. How to install OpenShot on Ubuntu Linux sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonoomph/openshot-edge sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openshot openshot-doc 8. PiTiVi Video Editor sudo apt-get install pitivi 9. Kino Video Editor sudo apt-get install kino 10. Open Movie Editor sudo apt-get install openmovieeditor 11. Lives and Kdenlive video editors

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hrickards/lives sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lives sudo apt-get install kdenlive

12. Powerful command line processing with ffmpeg

Install it as follows: sudo apt-get install ffmpeg Convert an MPG file to a DV file - ffmpeg -i MOV05031.MPG -target dv new.dv

13. Lots of info on ffmpeg available on the web

http://www.itbroadcastanddigitalcinema.com/ffmpeg_howto.html

14. http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/19-ffmpeg-commands-for-all-needs 15. http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/257628-Converting-from-mpg-to-dv-using-commande-line 16. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/how-to-merge-2-avi-together-424988/ 17. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8517 18. Example of ffmpeg in action!

ffmpeg -i MOV03440.MPG -target dv f1.dv ffmpeg -i MOV04410.MPG -target dv f2.dv ffmpeg -i MOV04450.MPG -target dv f3.dv ffmpeg -i MOV04453.MPG -target dv f4.dv ffmpeg -i MOV05031.MPG -target dv f5.dv ffmpeg -i MOV05387.MPG -target dv f6.dv ffmpeg -i MOV05444.MPG -target dv f7.dv cat f1.dv f2.dv f3.dv f4.dv f5.dv f6.dv f7.dv > fx.dv ffmpeg -i fx.dvmpeg_fx.mpeg

19. Combine video clips at the command line!

Here's Linux as video machine!

20. cat f1.dv f2.dv f3.dv f4.dv f5.dv f6.dv f7.dv > fx.dv 21. Combine tools to produce better effects

Using graphical video editors

• • Strip audio out and recombine new audio clips
• 22. Apply effects to clips and combine visually on a timeline

23. Save work as projects and encode videos to various formats

Use ffmpeg for hundreds of encoding issues 24. The End http://www.slideshare.net/KennedyPJ/filmcamp-2011-in-vientiane-laos