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[Imagine] I have a compressed video file. How it's better to slightly change it? What software should I use?

Examples of tasks:

  1. Make the video slowdown on some moment + draw a circle or freehand line on some part of image.
  2. Blur some parts of video (e.g. censor it).
  3. Fix something minor in it (manually erasing or drawing things in frames).

Features that should the video editor have:

  1. Reading and demuxing compressed files (desirable without creating large temporaries).
  2. Ability to "pass-throught" compressed stream without decoding+endoding it. Slight quality loss (because of reencoding) is acceptable only near the frames that was actually modified.
  3. Have couple of effects that can be applied to parts of picture of complex shape. If "curve editor" is obvious thing that needn't be mentioned separately.
  4. Ability to invoke fully-fledged external picture editor (like Gimp) for some parts of video (both spatially and temporally delimited).
  5. Mux and write output files, reusing parts of compressed streams from input.

FOSS is strongly preferred. Target system is GNU/Linux (Wine is allowed). It needn't be one big intergated environment, it can be set of tools.

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Have you tried Pitivi?

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Actually, I have no idea if Pitivi can do all the things you requested. I'm not learned in the ways of digital video editing, but I've heard a lot of good things about Pitivi so far. It's pretty user-friendly, too. – jrc03c Jul 16 '10 at 19:53
Have tried, but not seriously yet (it is crashing). If you think it can do that (especially for reusing compressed content and calling external picture editor), I'll try again. – Vi. Jul 18 '10 at 18:05
Well, all I can say is that Pitivi is basically the ONLY video editor for Linux right now. There might be other little projects out there, but it's pretty much your only choice. It's coming pre-installed in Ubuntu 10.04; I used it the other day and it worked fine, so if you're having trouble with it, you might try re-installing / re-compiling it. Also, I probably wouldn't recommend trying any Windows utilities through Wine; I'm not sure that Wine can properly handle graphics stuff like that. – jrc03c Jul 19 '10 at 1:56
Jrc03c - actually, have you seen openshot? openshotvideo.com – Moshe Sep 20 '10 at 4:24
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Try OpenShot. I don't know about all of your needs, butvitvseems fairly solid as far as linux video editing goes. Also, its in active development. Request features that you need from the developer.

Link: http://www.openshotvideo.com/

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Cinelerra is a quite full-featured video editor for Linux. Unfortunately it may a bit unstable - or then not. Sometimes I've used it for days without problems, but during other times it might crash very often. Also its UI is not as easy to use than with Kino or Kdenlive, but after the initial learning curve it's quick to use.

For your use Kdeenlive might actually be enough.

Some people also use Blender for video editing - see the manual.

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