[Kdenlive-devel] kdenlive vs Sony Hi-8 HandyCam DCR-TRV460, with kino thrown in

[gene heskett]

Greetings;

Your recent freshmeat announcement of 8.0 triggered my curiosity again, so 
I plugged in my camera, which did not seem to be properly discovered by the 
kernel, a 2.6.38.4-pae kernel built by my distro, pclos.  From the msgs 
log:

Apr 27 13:44:46 coyote klogd: firewire_core: skipped bus generations, 
destroying all nodes
Apr 27 13:44:46 coyote klogd: firewire_core: rediscovered device fw0
Apr 27 13:44:46 coyote klogd: firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new 
root=ffc1, gap_count=5
Apr 27 13:44:46 coyote klogd: firewire_core: skipped bus generations, 
destroying all nodes
Apr 27 13:44:47 coyote klogd: firewire_core: rediscovered device fw0
Apr 27 13:44:47 coyote klogd: firewire_core: created device fw1: GUID 
08004601044684e4, S100
Apr 27 13:44:49 coyote klogd: firewire_core: giving up on config rom for 
node id ffc0

Which is repeated every time the cable is plugged into the camera.  It may 
switch to /dev/fw1 at times too.

kdenlive (mine is version 7.8) supposedly gained camera controls back in 
2006 according to the ChangeLog on your web pages, but despite have them 
turned on, the buttons don't work, and despite trying both of the non-
screenshot choices available in the menu's, no video from the camera can be 
found.

Shut kdenlive down and fire up kino-1.3.4, and it all Just Works(TM).  
Flawlessly...

Then I go back and run kdenlive, and go see if it can load and edit any of 
the several weddings and other movies I have made with kino over the years, 
and in only one case can it even see the filenames, but it cannot open 
them, and ANAICT doesn't even make the attempt.

The end result is that I have yet to see kdenlive actually play a video of 
any kind.  The pclos installed version is 7.8, and the running kernel is 
2.6.38.4-pae. 32 bit.

Now, its been 3 or 4 years since I made the last dvd's of a wedding, so I 
need the recipe for importing the best, cleanest image from a 720x480 NTSC 
camera, and then from my edit final, make that into a dvd the parents and 
kids can both play.  They've been waiting patiently since last November 
2010, I assume because I downloaded a copy to their vhs machine before I 
came home.  But I know I can make a dvd that is many times sharper and 
cleaner than that vhs can do even in the test laboratory.

Was that ever committed to a kino "do this, in this order" recipe that 
makes us all look like we know what we are doing?  URL please if it exists.

Thanks for any help here.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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