powerful video tools?

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:32:16 +0200
"Adel ESSAFI" <adel.safi at imag.fr> wrote:

> I know that some linux tools are powerful for image editing (the gimp). are
> there such powerful tools for video?

I wouldn't really classify it as powerful, but avidemux seems to work
more reliably than any of the other tools I tried (most linux video
editors crash randomly, but the frequency seems smaller with avidemux :-).

For converting just about any random video into a form that avidemux
can handle I usually use command line tools like mplayer (with lots of
win32 codecs installed) and transcode.

I have yet to encounter a dvd authoring tool for linux that I could
tolerate using. I use dvdlab on a windows box when I get to that stage.