video editing on a desktop/ server with only free software
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I'm wondering what experience you've all had with video-editing on GNU/Linux, and what you think is the best desktop application in the Trisquel repos for editing videos? I'm not looking for studio-scale, professional software which needs a very specific GNU/Linux version. Just a simple, user-friendly, audio-visual editor, the sort you'd use for making a video podcast, or editing a talk recorded at a tech conference and encoding it in libre codecs for upload to a Plumi or MediaGoblin site. It needs to be able to handle cutting together a series of video clips and still images on a timeline, and adding a couple of soundtracks (eg one music and one talking), without crashing (much, on decent hardware). It would be nice if it could do some mmore advanced tricks like clipping a video sample from a larger video, basic transitions between clips (mixes, wipes etc),and embedding (eg a talking head embedding in a panning shot of a landscape), but these are nice-to-haves for now.
I'm also wondering, on a more speculative note, if any of you have any solid leads of server-side software for video-editing, that I might be able to run on a sufficient powerful server, and then do the same kind of video editing I describe above using a less powerful local computers, and getting the server to do the heavy lifting. I'm imagining something that could be set up on a server alongside MediaGoblin (or Plumi) and integrated with it, so it could be used to do live mixing of audio, video, and graphic media stored on the server.
I haven't done it much, but the one I've used the most is OpenShot. It's pretty decent.
Theoretically, depending on job itself, the software and hardware at both ends, instead of using some purpose made server software you might be able to use a regular editor running on the server and then hooking up to it with e.g. ssh's x11 forwarding or a vnc client/server. Of course such setups always have security implications you need to research as well.
Thanks for the suggestion Lembas. I can't help but point out though that "instead of using some purpose made server software", I could try to roll my own mailserver or listserver, or my own version of what GNU Social or MediaGoblin does. Given my extremely limited knowledge of server-side software, including the security implications you mention, it will generally be a better idea for me to pick a widely-deployed, purpose-made package instead. But I'm assuming you are making this suggestion because no such package exists, or can be run in full freedom, so again, thanks for the tips.
One I had vaguely heard of (and remembered about today) is Kaltura. Has anyone tried (or heard of anyone trying) to run Kaltura (GNU AGPL) on a server running only libre software?
http://corp.kaltura.com/Deployment-Options/Kaltura-Community-Edition
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