Sun, 09 Dec 2007

Video editing: Kino (2)

I've used Kino a lot these last few days - it's an excellent program. In contrast to Cinelerra, everything is available in one window, which in my view makes it easier to use. The window has several tabs, they provide functions such as editing, trimming, exporting etc. When you change between editing (where you see your whole project) and trimming (where you can work on an individual snippet and cut out whatever doesn't quite please you), your position in the project doesn't change: switching back and forth between these two views/functions is seamless.

Kino has crashed on me once but I could restart it without a hitch and it automatically restored the project I'd been working on, including all changes I had made - even the last one, which had somehow caused the crash.

The only thing I find a bit awkward in Kino is that you can't add several files to your project at once. You have to click "Insert" and then pick a file for every single piece of video you want to include. (Or maybe I just haven't found out how to add more than one piece at a time?)

(My earlier post.)

Posted on 09 Dec 2007 at 11:39 in /technology. -- Permalink