rebeccmeister | THAT took way too long (Reply)

So. Recording lecture videos from home on the Ubuntu-machine today because classes were canceled. When using Fruit Computers, I wound up paying for Movavi as my video editor, and got the Movavi screen recording software as well, which collectively allowed me to record a patch of my desk with a piece of paper on it that I could write on, my lecture slides, and a wee thumbnail video of myself (because studies show it's easier to follow along if there's a person in frame).

When getting the Ubuntu-machine set up, I found a forum that suggested vokoscreen for recording my computer screen. One can use cheese to fire up one's webcam that one has pointed at the desk, but to my dismay today I discovered that when you press 'record' in vokoscreen it causes cheese to freeze. It also looks like guvcview will only allow one to produce a thumbnail from a built-in webcam, not a thumbnail from a plugged-in one, so that didn't help.

Eventually after a bunch of casting about, I discovered that there's vokoscreenNG, the next-generation version of vokoscreen, which mercifully does NOT cause one's cheese to freeze. Whew.

But then, what about the video editing step? S had recommended avidemux, but when I last looked I'd settled on trying OpenShot.

I eventually got OpenShot to work well enough for now, but ugh. Movavi has better built-in sound-editing capabilities, as best I can tell.

At this stage I feel like it would be helpful to go through some video tutorials on the basics for using Gimp, Inkscape, and OpenShot. Trying to learn how to use all these new tools while having certain looming deadlines has been stressful.

And don't even get me started on .rtf files right now. I have a lot of them from my Fruit Company days, now that I've learned more about the format I'm mad about them, and I want a piece of software that's in-between Notepad and LibreOffice but not sold by Microsoft.