[lug] Simple video editing

[Kenneth D Weinert]

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The problem with most documentation is that it's written by the
technical folks.  The reason this is a problem is because technical
folks find it *much* easier to write reference manuals than tutorials.

This is, of course, a generalization and not true of everyone. What we
need are more open source technical writers - folks able to take the
words and ideas and turn them into something understandable by people
that haven't just spent several months/years in writing and/or
enhancing some code.

That is something that commercial software tends to have an advantage
in - they pay people to write the words that help sell the software.
They can afford to do it.

At least that's been my experience, even for things like programming.
I have a problem now with writing some stuff in C# using GTK# and
getting the display to update properly. I can find *a lot* of
information and suggestions on the technique, but not a tutorial that
is a higher level than "Hello World" - a real-life example of a
program that has several fields on it with computation happening and
those fields getting updated as the computations happen. Sure, if I
let my loop only run once it works fine - but let it roll and you'll
never see a result.

Sorry for the aside, but I think it's related - it's an aspect of the
same problem.

I don't have a solution for you either, unfortunately - I'm just able
to throw my $0.02 in on why we have what we have.


Louis Miller wrote:
> Dear Steve,
>
>      I feel like I am being pulled in two different directions with
trying to learn how to edit video. The Linux community seems to
encourage me to never touch Windows XP, and only use Linux and open
source software, yet I don't have the skills to edit video. I couldn't
find any help menus with avidemux. I was trying to do transcoding. I
don't enjoy using Nero. I looked for a book on it in the library that I
patronize regularly. Maybe, there might be a magazine article in some
magazine, on it, like PC computing.
>
>     I think these Linux programs assume that you have spent serious
time and frustration learning all the ins and outs of their Windows
counterparts, and if you are just learning how to use a particular type
of program for the first time, then you are stuck. I guess these
programs are all straightforward for experts on digital video. Are you
an expert or an amateur, like me?
>
> Louis Miller
>
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Ken Weinert
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