Free tools for picture use and redaction in Linux aren't that hard to brainwave if you cognize where on earth to facade.
Here are my favorites:
Avidemux is a autonomous picture editor in chief designed for uncontrived cutting, filtering and encryption tasks. It supports umteen profile types, plus AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, victimisation a mixed bag of codecs. Interestingly, it's untaken for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Windows lower than the GNU GPL official document. I haven't well-tried Mac OS X and Windows versions, but the system of rules runs impressive low Ubuntu Linux (Dapper Drake).
For directory conversion, there's FFMPEG, which is free-but you'll have to acquire to use it finished the tell procession. Unfortunately, the MAN leaf for the system isn't hugely unmistakable.
To recoup quite a lot of of you the fracas of figuring it out, here's a spur-of-the-moment tutorial.
Let's say you impoverishment to soul a record called MYVIDEO.AVI to the mpg format, which is the data format backed by the K3 CD burning programme. After instalment FFMPEG (you can use Synaptic Package Manager), forest fire up Terminal.
From the decree line, journey to the heading where the database is kept. So you mightiness type:
cd /home/user/Converts
to go to the dossier wherever the file is kept.
Then sort the following at the instruction line:
ffmpeg -i MYVIDEO.avi -target ntsc-vcd MYVIDEO.mpg
and hit Enter. That should get the version system started, and you ought to see quite a lot of article round shape by in the Terminal fanlight. Don't unexpectedly adjacent the window, because that will suspend the transformation. You can minimize it, nevertheless.
To person an avi database to SVCD format, you would type:
ffmpeg -i MYVIDEO.avi -target ntsc-vcd MYVIDEO.mpg
There's a GUI front-end for FFMPEG on Mac OS X, but I haven't recovered one for Linux.
For ripping DVDs, I use AcidRip. Very natural but fleet and rationalized.