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I know Kino has been given the thumbs up as a Video editor, but I am having no luck with it, resorting back Main Actor.

My biggest issue is the ability to cut out segments of video and join the remaining 2 parts.

Struggling to find a good tutorial on this, I thought I'd post here to see what people had on this.

Ahh would "Cut scene" be what I need to cut it up into scene's and then delete the unwanted parts ? Using the Trim tab doesn't seem to allow you to cut out parts like I want to do.

These are the best kino how-tos I've found:
http://www.yourmachines.org/tutorials/kino.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7615

In Kino, you are looking for split and join (edit menu or icons). trim lets you adjust things, but you could also try the insert mode in the trim window.

Yeah I tried insert mode, but it seems to override you settings.
Let me explain.

If I have a film thats 20,000 frames
I mark IN as frame 1 and then OUT as frame 1,000 and insert it so now its a clip listed on the left.

Then I mark IN as frame 2,000 and OUT as frame 10,000 and hit insert

For some reason the missing frames I dont want, 1,000-2,000 get appended or prepended to the existing clips.

Its frustrating.

I must be missing something.

Avidemux2 is awesome for this sort of editing. Wish it had the effects Kino has.

Care to point to a good avidemux2 tutorial? I use it for the stuff you might imagine, and trimming from the beginning and ends of things, but I've never seen a function like the one you're describing. I'd love a simple way to break a movie into, say, 4 pieces without it being an 8 step process.

You seem to have been hitting upon a bug in Kino's trim that I recently fixed. You should be able to avoid that bug by using a different way to set your in and outpoints. For example, use i and o on the keyboard.