Kino

Kino is a video editor for Linux. It allows you to transfer videos via firewire from your camcorder to your computer and to cut and edit video files.

Web site

Kino's web site is http://kinodv.org/

Install kino

This is an example how to install kino. It has been tested on suse Linux 11.1 but should work same or similar on any Linux. The example uses version 1.3.3.

• Install dependencies

yast -i intltool
yast -i libdv-devel
yast -i libraw1394-devel
yast -i libavc1394-devel
yast -i libiec61883-devel
yast -i libsamplerate-devel

• Get the source

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kino/kino-1.3.3.tar.gz

• Unpack the source

tar xvzf kino-1.3.3.tar.gz
cd kino-1.3.3/

• build the source

./configure && make -j4 && make install

• to be able to save movies as MPGs, you need to install mpeg2enc

See also

• editors
• Wikipedia's comparison of video editing software