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I’m trying to edit a small clip from a larger program, add titling and post to YouTube. The clip is a section of TV program called Best of Friends and shows a pottery challenge throwing a pot on the potters wheel at Barefoot Ceramics.

Anyway, FOSS linux apps I’m auditioning (at least I think they’re all FOSS, definitely free-gratis):

1. Cinelerra [Update: look out if you get cinelerra from Akirad, it installs an app called akiranews, this seems to be some sort of spam gateway (as yetunexploited. I'm a little concerned about it as a security risk too. So I've uninstalled it as a precaution and removed all akirad repositories.]
2. Kino
3. Kdenlive
4. Open Movie Editor
5. Jahshaka
6. Avidemux
7. Cinepaint

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Well, I thought it would be nice to do some demo’s for using Inkscape. First up though I need to find a decent way to create video screencaps, preferably with audio and notes - though a video editor could be used later with the resulting video.

I used Google and Sourceforge to expand my search and limited the contenders to those with Linux versions. The top app on SF was VirtualDub but it’s Windows only.

Contenders are:

1. http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/
2. http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul
3. http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/about.php : I got my package from the getdeb site.
4. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ : Wink version 2 is currently only available for Windows, which might suggest a move away from Linux.
5. http://epresence.tv/ : they call video captures “screencasts”. Their Producer and Player applications aren’t currently available for Linux.
6. http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/

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