Hello,

I am trying to find a method to make an mpeg movie from a number of avi
files captured from a digital camera (Canon A540). Any suggestions what
steps to follow? The original videos are at 15 fps and I am not too
concerned about the output fps. However, if I wanted a DVD from the avi
files, I suppose I would need to have either 24 or 30 fps.

Also, any idea how do I go about making short captions between two avi
files? Something like the titler in Kino.

thanks,
->HS


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On 08/05/07 11:12, H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to find a method to make an mpeg movie from a number of avi
> files captured from a digital camera (Canon A540). Any suggestions what
> steps to follow? The original videos are at 15 fps and I am not too
> concerned about the output fps. However, if I wanted a DVD from the avi
> files, I suppose I would need to have either 24 or 30 fps.

avifile-utils and mencoder are where I would start.

> Also, any idea how do I go about making short captions between two avi
> files? Something like the titler in Kino.

Why not use kino?

dvdauthor might also do it.

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On 08/05/07 11:12, H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to find a method to make an mpeg movie from a number of avi
> files captured from a digital camera (Canon A540). Any suggestions what
> steps to follow? The original videos are at 15 fps and I am not too
> concerned about the output fps. However, if I wanted a DVD from the avi
> files, I suppose I would need to have either 24 or 30 fps.

avifile-utils and mencoder are where I would start.

> Also, any idea how do I go about making short captions between two avi
> files? Something like the titler in Kino.

Why not use kino?

dvdauthor might also do it.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

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Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 01:13:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/05/07 11:12, H.S. wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to find a method to make an mpeg movie from a number of avi
> > files captured from a digital camera (Canon A540). Any suggestions what
> > steps to follow? The original videos are at 15 fps and I am not too
> > concerned about the output fps. However, if I wanted a DVD from the avi
> > files, I suppose I would need to have either 24 or 30 fps.
>
> avifile-utils and mencoder are where I would start.

I would second the use of mencoder. I've dont it with videos from my
Canon A80. mencoder has too many options, but something along the
lines of:

mencoder mymovie.avi -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=mp3:vhq -o mymovie.mpg

that is not going to work, but should get you started. Sometimes
mencoder gives good error messages about what you need to do and the
man page is pretty extensive.

A

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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 01:13:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/05/07 11:12, H.S. wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to find a method to make an mpeg movie from a number of avi
> > files captured from a digital camera (Canon A540). Any suggestions what
> > steps to follow? The original videos are at 15 fps and I am not too
> > concerned about the output fps. However, if I wanted a DVD from the avi
> > files, I suppose I would need to have either 24 or 30 fps.
>
> avifile-utils and mencoder are where I would start.

I would second the use of mencoder. I've dont it with videos from my
Canon A80. mencoder has too many options, but something along the
lines of:

mencoder mymovie.avi -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=mp3:vhq -o mymovie.mpg

that is not going to work, but should get you started. Sometimes
mencoder gives good error messages about what you need to do and the
man page is pretty extensive.

A

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On Aug 6, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

>
> I would second the use of mencoder. I've dont it with videos from my
> Canon A80. mencoder has too many options, but something along the
> lines of:
>
> mencoder mymovie.avi -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
> vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=mp3:vhq -o mymovie.mpg
>
> that is not going to work, but should get you started. Sometimes
> mencoder gives good error messages about what you need to do and the
> man page is pretty extensive.

The online documentation also has some great examples, as well as
discussion about what you want to do to get the best quality in
various situations.

dvbcut is also useful. It lets you edit MPEG files and cut out clips
without re-encoding the whole file.




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On Aug 6, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

>
> I would second the use of mencoder. I've dont it with videos from my
> Canon A80. mencoder has too many options, but something along the
> lines of:
>
> mencoder mymovie.avi -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
> vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=mp3:vhq -o mymovie.mpg
>
> that is not going to work, but should get you started. Sometimes
> mencoder gives good error messages about what you need to do and the
> man page is pretty extensive.

The online documentation also has some great examples, as well as
discussion about what you want to do to get the best quality in
various situations.

dvbcut is also useful. It lets you edit MPEG files and cut out clips
without re-encoding the whole file.




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