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Kino - Free Video Editor for Linux

Thursday February 26, 2009
If you thought there is no useful digital video editor for Linux think again. Kino is shaping up to be a great free and open-source alternative to programs like Windows Movie Maker. It offers easy and reliable digital video editing for the GNU/Linux desktop, and works well with IEEE-1394 to capture digital video and provide video tape recorder control.

You can use Kino for example to load several video clips, cut and paste pieces of video or audio, and save it as an edit decision list in SMIL XML format. Besides various DV formats, Kino can export to a variety of other video formats, such as MP3, Ogg, Vorbis, MPEG-1,2,4, and WAV. It can also export still frames in most common image formats. For more information see here.

Comments

March 5, 2009 at 4:44 pm
(1) Vincent says:

If only someone would create a professional alternative to Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro for Linux!!

May 7, 2009 at 2:17 pm
(2) James says:

How would I use Kino to capture video(direct to disk) so that I could later import it for editing in Premiere Pro or Avid?
Or rather what do I select prior to captureing and how do I export in a useable format?

thanks.
james

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