[Cialug] Video editing/DVD Authoring

[James Shoemaker]

	The question on transcoding made me curious if anyone else is doing 
Video Editing and DVD authoring under Linux.  I do a minimal amount of 
editing and author DVD disks without menus using a collection of 
scripts.  Any editing I do I use kino.  The scripts use a combination of 
dvgrab, mplayer, yuvdenoise, mpeg2enc, mp2enc, dvdauthor, mkisofs, and 
the patched cdrecord that can write to DVD discs.

	My source material comes completely from firewire, either my digital 
camcorder, or my pyro analog->firewire converter.

	I use http://dvd-hq.info/Calculator.html to calculate bitrates required 
to fit the material on a DVDR.  Mostly because it works and I haven't 
bothered to find another tool.

	I saw that there are a few functional DVD menu authoring tools now 
available, but I haven't had time to try any of them yet.

	The drawback with dabbling in video is the limitless thirst for CPU 
power and disk space.  I have upgraded my motherboard/CPU 4 times (up to 
a dual AMD 2000+) and am constantly hunting for cheap/large drives 
(currently using a striped raid of 3 43 gig UW-SCSI drives for scratch 
space).  Even with the dual 2000+ I only encode at something like 7:1.

	Does anyone else dabble in video?  If so, what tools do you use?

James