I said in my post-camp post that I would post some more details about some of the stuff. One of things I wanted to talk about was the change in video editing under Linux in the past 2 years since I did any serious work.
One of the biggest changes was the amount of dropped frames when importing DV into Kino from the camera. Last time this was a huge number, resulting in poor quality output. This time, the total dropped frames for all the video (which was probably 4-5 times longer than the amount of tape for the previous effort) was 0. Zero. None. To say I am impressed is an understatement. This could be down to a number of things that had changed – it was a different firewire cable for a start, and brand new tape. But it’s also been 2 years of driver development, and Kino development. This was probably the best thing.
Kino, to be honest, hasn’t really moved much in terms of features in the last 2 years. It did the job, and the results are reasonably good, but it’s format is frustrating for me, and it’s FX set is quite limited compared to other products, even free (as in beer) stuff like (*shudder*) Windows MovieMaker. And there are some thing that are needlessly complicated to do – for instance, trying to insert some video into a scene, but not overwriting the audio from the scene.
Perhaps the biggest frustration was not being able to improve the sound quality. Although Audacity has many effects, a lot of them result in very ‘digital’ sounding noise, which is not what you want. While I am looking forward to see Jokosher develop, I suspect that it will suffer from the same problems with LADSPA plugins.
I’m hoping that, within the next 12-18 months, PiTiVi or Diva will reach a level of features that matches Kino – certainly both have interfaces that look much nicer to use.
In summary – you _can_ do a decent job under Linux with Video Editing, but there are limitations to it. Mislaid is an OK example of what you can do (as long as you ignore the sound quality, script and poor acting 
). But hopefully the scene is about to change, as these 2 new pieces of software mature.
mrBen