Monday the 20th of August at The Milestone Beer House 8PM http://www.alug.org.uk/wiki/moin.cgi/Meetings As promised I will be hosting a beginners guide/introduction to video editing and production on Linux at the next Ipswich Meeting. The general lesson plan is to go through all the steps necessary to produce a DVD (with front menus) from some raw DV footage taken from a standard digital video camera. Most of the steps will also be relevant to creating video content for online services such as youtube. During the production of this DVD (using very short clips so that the lesson does not mostly comprise of watching progress bars) we will cover clipping and editing of footage, modification and dubbing of soundtracks, applying post-production effects, building DVD menus and producing the DVD itself. In addition to the film clip we will also be producing a slideshow from some digital photos. With additions to the DVD menu to allow the end user to select this from the front screen. If we get time I will also demonstrate a quicker way of making a DVD with just the slideshow, which is a useful way of distributing pictures to friends and family who do not have a computer but may have a DVD player. This as I said will be a beginners introduction, anybody that has spent any time with these tools will probably be at least as well informed as the instructor :) Hope to see some of you there Wayne