Audio Video Editor Archives

Kino was a free softwareGTK+-based video editing software application for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. The development of Kino was started at the end of 2000 by Dan Dennedy and Arne Schirmacher.^[1] The project's aim was: "Easy and reliable DV editing for the Linux desktop with export to many usable formats." The program supported many basic and detailed audio/video editing and assembling tasks.^[2]

Kino has been included in several Linux distributions, including Debian, Puppy Linux^[3] and Ubuntu.^[4]BSD ports are also available.

Development towards major feature implementations in Kino was slowed due to the lead developer, Dan Dennedy's inclination towards the development of Media Lovin' Toolkit. Dennedy indicated when he released Kino 1 that he was returning to work on the MLT Framework to support Kdenlive (another Linux non-linear digital video editor), "since its latest version shows much promise".^[5]

As of August 5, 2013, the official website for Kino indicated that the project is "dead" and that users should try alternative software.^[6]

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Kino can import raw DV-AVI and DV files, as well as capture footage from digital camcorders using the raw1394 and dv1394 libraries. It can also import (as well as export) multiple still frames as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PPM, and others image file types. Kino has the ability to export to camcorders using the ieee1394 or video1394 libraries. Kino can also export audio as WAV, Ogg Vorbis, MP3 using LAME, or MP2. Using FFmpeg, Kino can export audio/video as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 and is integrated with DVD Video authoring utilities.^[7]

Some features included in version 1.3.4 include: capture from FireWire cameras, fast and frame-accurate navigation/scrubbing, vi keybindings, storyboard view with drag-n-drop, trimmer with 3 point insert editing, fine-grain thumbnail viewer, support for jog shuttle USB devices, drag-n-drop from file manage, Undo/Redo up to 99X.^[7]

Kino provides a range of audio and video effects and transitions. Audio effects include silence, fade in/out, gain envelope, dub (from file), mix (from file), and crossfading support. Video effects include black/white, sepia tone, multiple color balance and masking tools, reverse (i.e. inverse or negative), mirror, kaleidescope, swap (flip), fade to/from black, blur (triangle), soft focus, titler and pixelate. Transitions include fade to/from color dissolve, push wipe, barn door wipe, color differences, and extensible wipes with numerous common SMPTE wipes (box, bar, diagonal, barn door, clock, matrix, four box, iris, and checkerboard).^[7]

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In reviewing Kino 1.3.4 in January 2012 Terry Hancock of Free Software Magazine found that the application was only suitable for simple or very limited video editing tasks. He praised its simplicity and ease-of-learning even for users new to video editing, but criticized its lack of multi-track capabilities and described the process of adding background music or synchronizing new sounds as "laborious". He concluded: "I'd say it was basically up to editing home movies to get rid of the boring parts. I've also found it useful for mining old public-domain videos from the Internet Archive to extract useful snippets of video. This, plus its ease of use, make it a valuable niche application, but certainly not for any serious video project."^[11]

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The goal of the Video Preservation Lab is to provide appropriate digital products for NARA video collections as well as to provide the needed services and expertise to assist NARA staff and other stakeholders in dealing with video collections at the technical level. The Video Preservation Lab supports analog-to-digital reformatting workflow for both preservation and distribution purposes. The Video Preservation Lab also works with selected born digital video material in accessioned NARA collections. Lab staff also serve as subject matter experts for digital conversion issues specific to video recordings and media. The Video Preservation Lab has developed a suite of products to satisfy a wide variety of demands for different material types. Selection of an appropriate product or set of products is a collaborative process between archival and technical staff.

In complement to the products produced, Video Preservation Lab staff also provides a complement of essential services and expertise which support the archival process across NARA and the broader community.

Mass and Manual Reformatting Workflows

The majority of current reformatting work within the Audio-Visual Preservation Lab is focused on legacy standard definition (SD) video. We will need to augment our products and workflows to accommodate high definition (HD) video needs, but this is not a current focus of the NARA video collections.

Currently there are two file-based workflows to digitize analog source video. One is through the robotic SAMMA system (currently set up to process ¾” U-matic tapes) and the other is a more individualized manual process using appropriate VTRs and Edius editing software and hardware. Each workflow has specific outputs that are the results of software and hardware restrictions. For example, the robotic SAMMA and its Digital Rapids encoding cards captures uncompressed AVI with a choice of 1, 2, or 4 channels of audio while the Edius video editing and production system, with its single encoding card, always captures uncompressed AVI with 8 channels of audio. In general, the Video Preservation Lab staff members determine which workflow is appropriate for what materials; in some cases our available equipment dictates which formats will be processed through particular workflows.

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American History in Video
Digital collection of newsreels from 1942-1964, plus television documentaries from the History Channel and elsewhere. Includes transcripts.

World History in Video
Digital collection of BBC, PBS and independent documentaries covering world history. Includes transcripts.

Vanderbilt University Television News Archive
Index to the most extensive and complete archive of television news. A substantial amount of content is available online, and Princeton students & faculty can order clips through interlibrary loan.

The HistoryMakers

Oral history interviews with more than 1,600 historically significant African Americans in fields such as the arts, business, education, entertainment, the law, the military, politics, religion, and science.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting

Internet Archive: Moving Image Archiveaccess to a YouTube channel with extensive footage of 20th century events

Library of Congress Motion Picture and Television Reading Room
Includes several collections of digitized documentary film.

Google Videos (includes video from the US National Archives)

C-SPAN Video Library
Includes every C-SPAN program aired since 1987. Particularly valuable for coverage of Congress, including video of congressional hearings.

Hulu
Mix of free and fee-based content. Includes some TV shows from the 1950s onwards.

Youtube
You never know what you can find -- or how long it will be available. But definitely worth searching.

WGBH Open Vault
Content originally broadcast by the Boston public television station, WGBH.

AP Video Archive Access to a YouTube channel with extensive footage of 20th century events

Civil Rights Digital Library  news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives 

Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection  radio programming from the beginning of the medium  to the present day