Kino as an editor

DaveQB · Post by **DaveQB** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:05 pm

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.

DaveQB · Post by **DaveQB** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:16 pm

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.

Post by **Patrick** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:39 am

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

ddennedy · Post by **ddennedy** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:11 am

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.

DaveQB · Post by **DaveQB** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:33 am

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.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:35 am

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.

ddennedy · Post by **ddennedy** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:33 pm

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.