Blender is an excellent tool for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production and interactive creation. Blender is highly sophisticated and whilst difficult it can be difficult to get started has a very large range of functionality.

A non-linear video editing software that lets you capture, import, edit, arrange together and process video, photos, audio and text to create DV quality movies and slide shows. It combines an extensive set of features with a streamlined user-interface and is easy to use while retaining the power of real time compositing and video and audio effects.

Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It integrates with DV Grab for IEEE-1394 (firewire interface for your computer) capture from your camera, allows you playback control like fastforward, rewind, play, pause etc and recording back to the camera. It captures video to your computer in Raw DV, AVI format.

You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list. Also, Kino can export the composed movie in a number of formats: DV over IEEE 1394 (back to your recorder), Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4.

DV Grab

To capture footage to edit in Kino you need to use DVgrab. DVgrab receives audio and video data from a digital camcorder via an IEEE 1394 (widely known as FireWire) link and converts them into an AVI file. It features automatic splitting of long video sequences into several files to allow storage on various media like VCD etc, and supports saving the data as raw frames and image files.

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VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility. It's core use is to compress and encode video though can also be use to make simple video edits and to capture video from a camera to your desktop. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

WinDV is a small and easy to use Windows application for capturing video from a video camera via FireWire.

WinDV recognises time stamps logged on the tape and allows you to save the captured video in multiple files split automatically based on these timestamps. After capture, WinDV allows several AVI-files to be joined together to form a single final video recording.