Free tools for picture influence and piece of writing in Linux aren't that sturdy to discovery if you cognize where on earth to face.
Here are my favorites:
Avidemux is a on the house visual communication trained worker designed for unrefined cutting, filtering and cryptography tasks. It supports abundant record types, plus AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, victimisation a group of codecs. Interestingly, it's unclaimed for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Windows below the GNU GPL legal instrument. I haven't well-tried Mac OS X and Windows versions, but the system of rules runs superb under Ubuntu Linux (Dapper Drake).
A little article: Popular science news, Volume 33 Researching Beneath the Surface: Psycho-Social Research Methods inFor profile conversion, there's FFMPEG, which is free-but you'll have to acquire to use it finished the direct strip. Unfortunately, the MAN page for the system isn't incredibly unsubtle.
To recoup a number of of you the disorder of figuring it out, here's a swift tutorial.
Let's say you deprivation to soul a record called MYVIDEO.AVI to the mpg format, which is the info backed up by the K3 CD painful programme. After installation FFMPEG (you can use Synaptic Package Manager), conflagration up Terminal.
From the edict line, voyage to the case where on earth the report is kept. So you may possibly type:
cd /home/user/Converts
to go to the wallet where the data file is kept.
Then hue the tailing at the decree line:
ffmpeg -i MYVIDEO.avi -target ntsc-vcd MYVIDEO.mpg
and hit Enter. That should get the changeover system started, and you ought to see some paper ringlet by in the Terminal windowpane. Don't circumstantially shut up the window, because that will break off the transformation. You can lessen it, nevertheless.
To human an avi profile to SVCD format, you would type:
ffmpeg -i MYVIDEO.avi -target ntsc-vcd MYVIDEO.mpg
There's a GUI front-end for FFMPEG on Mac OS X, but I haven't saved one for Linux.
For rending DVDs, I use AcidRip. Very comfortable but high-velocity and cost-efficient.