Hello Rob
Like you, I used MS MovieMaker until I went 100% Linux.
Desmond showed me PiTiVi and that's what I now use, doing pretty much
the same as you want to do.
Here's an example of result for web, from a stills camera:
http://steamtube.ning.com/video/walschaerts-valvegear-mhr-12 (best at 480)
Both my computers are 2GB too.
Happy to help (off list) if you need.
Tony Wood
(from Linux PC)
On 29/09/11 14:12, Rob Malpass wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> With due respect to those that do it all the time and love it - I hate
> video editing. What I need to do at the moment is take a 3 hour mpg
> file and split it (manually is fine I'm not in need of a batch job)
> into 6 half hour mpgs.
>
> My only experience is Windows Movie Maker which has always crashed on
> me with long mpgs. So I'm happy to try something Linux (Ubuntu
> probably but I do have a Slackware box). Could someone please
> suggest something that makes this simple job easy? I don't need
> anything more involved than something which lets me move to say 29
> minutes, watch from there, then split when I click the mouse?
>
> Most of my boxes have 2Gb - is that enough?
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
>
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